Production of Recombinant HAs, Related to Figure 2
Cysteine-stabilized HAs (Lee et al., 2015) were produced in CHO cells and purified as detailed in the STAR Methods. Left, stained SDS-PAGE gel of H1PR8 under reducing and non-reducing conditions. HA is shown prior to and after thrombin digestion to remove trimerization, biotinylation, AviTag, and HisTag domains. Right, non-reducing SDS-PAGE gel of HAs used for heterologous boosting (pandemic H1 A/California/07/2009 (H1Cal), and H5 A/Indonesia/05/2005 (H5Ind)) after thrombin digestion. Both strips are cropped from the same gel.