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. 1981 Nov;78(11):6670–6674. doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.11.6670

Conditional expression of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein gene in Escherichia coli.

J K Rose, A Shafferman
PMCID: PMC349111  PMID: 6273881

Abstract

Bacterial plasmids that directed expression of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (G-protein) gene under control of the tryptophan operon regulatory region were constructed. A plasmid directing the synthesis of a G-protein-like protein (containing the NH2-terminal segment of seven amino acids encoded by the trpE gene fused to the complete G-protein sequence lacking only its NH2-terminal methionine) could be transformed into trpR+ (repressed) but not into trpR- (derepressed) cells. This result suggested initially that derepressed synthesis of the G-protein-like protein encoded by this plasmid was lethal in Escherichia coli. Deletion of the sequence encoding the large hydrophobic segment near the COOH terminus of G-protein did not overcome this lethality. Lethality of derepressed synthesis was overcome by deletion of the G-protein gene region encoding 10 amino acids in the hydrophobic NH2-terminal domain (signal peptide). Tryptic peptide mapping demonstrated that the G-protein-like protein and some truncated proteins encoded by the plasmid contained G-protein protein sequences. Antisera to vesicular stomatitis virus precipitated the G-protein-like protein, showing that it shares antigenic determinants with the authentic G-protein protein.

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