Properties of a cleaved two‐chain form of recombinant human growth hormone
- 12 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research
- Vol. 35 (1), 17-24
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3011.1990.tb00716.x
Abstract
Escherichia coli cells transformed with plasmids engineered for the expression of recombinant human growth hormone as a secreted product also produced a proteolytically cleaved form of rhGH. This variant is isolated at a high resolution anion exchange chromatography stage during the manufacturing process. The higher isoelectric point of this form is demonstrated by isoelectric focusing and chromatofocusing and the two-chain nature by tryptic mapping, N- and C-terminal sequence analyses, and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. These data indicate that the single site of cleavage is between Thr-142 and Tyr-143, in contrast to the two-chain variant isolated from human pituitary glands, which has a clip after residue Phe-139. The recombinant two-chain form was further characterized by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography at both acidic and basic pHs. The assay utilizing bicarbonate-containing mobile phases was determined to be the most efficient and sensitive method. The bioactivity of this two-chain form was measured by the in vivo rat weight gain assay and by the in vitro Nb2 cell bioassay. Its immunological similarity to intact one-chain rhGH was demonstrated with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.Keywords
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