Hybrid protein thymidine kinase gene fusions: plasmid vectors for the study of transcription and translation initiation signals
Gene, ISSN: 0378-1119, Vol: 52, Issue: 1, Page: 83-94
1987
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The thymidine kinase (TK) gene ( tk ) from Herpes simplex virus type 1 has been used to form gene fusions encoding enzymatically active hybrid proteins. The promoter, translation initiation region, and the first three codons of the tk gene were removed and replaced with a series of DNA restriction sites. DNA fragments containing gene initiation regions were cloned into these sites and shown to synthesize enzymatically active proteins in Escherichia coli. These gene fusions were shown to complement an E. coli strain which is deficient in TK function. Gene initiation regions were used from the lac operon, the tnpR gene of TnJ, and the insA gene of IS 1. TK synthesis was regulated by the control signals of the promoter fused to tk, and was dependent upon the phase alignment of the codons at the fusion joint. The size of the resulting protein was shown to be increased over the size of the original TK protein by the length of the coding region fused to TK. This demonstrated that the tk gene has non-essential N-terminal amino acids that can be replaced by other amino acid sequences with the retention of TK enzymatic activity. Such tk gene fusions are useful in situations where fusions with other genes cannot be conviently selected or assayed.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378111987903970; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119(87)90397-0; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0023227523&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3036661; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0378111987903970; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119%2887%2990397-0; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119%2887%2990397-0
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