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Journal Article
Co‐expression of the protease furin in Nicotiana benthamiana leads to efficient processing of latent transforming growth factor‐β1 into a biologically active protein
2016
Overview
Summary
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF‐β) is a signalling molecule that plays a key role in developmental and immunological processes in mammals. Three TGF‐β isoforms exist in humans, and each isoform has unique therapeutic potential. Plants offer a platform for the production of recombinant proteins, which is cheap and easy to scale up and has a low risk of contamination with human pathogens. TGF‐β3 has been produced in plants before using a chloroplast expression system. However, this strategy requires chemical refolding to obtain a biologically active protein. In this study, we investigated the possibility to transiently express active human TGF‐β1 in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. We successfully expressed mature TGF‐β1 in the absence of the latency‐associated peptide (LAP) using different strategies, but the obtained proteins were inactive. Upon expression of LAP‐TGF‐β1, we were able to show that processing of the latent complex by a furin‐like protease does not occur in planta. The use of a chitinase signal peptide enhanced the expression and secretion of LAP‐TGF‐β1, and co‐expression of human furin enabled the proteolytic processing of latent TGF‐β1. Engineering the plant post‐translational machinery by co‐expressing human furin also enhanced the accumulation of biologically active TGF‐β1. This engineering step is quite remarkable, as furin requires multiple processing steps and correct localization within the secretory pathway to become active. Our data demonstrate that plants can be a suitable platform for the production of complex proteins that rely on specific proteolytic processing.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc,John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subject
/ Epithelial Cells - drug effects
/ Furin
/ Humans
/ Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains - genetics
/ Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains - metabolism
/ Isoforms
/ Latency
/ Mammals
/ Mink
/ Peptides
/ Plants
/ Plants, Genetically Modified
/ Protease
/ Protein Sorting Signals - genetics
/ Proteins
/ Recombinant Fusion Proteins - genetics
/ Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism
/ Recombinant Fusion Proteins - pharmacology
/ risk
/ transforming growth factor beta 1
/ transforming growth factor beta 3
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - genetics
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - metabolism
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - pharmacology
/ transforming growth factor β1
/ Transforming growth factor-b
