Expression and purification of recombinant protein NLI-IF from Escherichia coli

Nguyen Duy Phuong; Najaren Tuteja; Le Huy Ham; Pham Xuan Hoi

doi:10.15625/0866-7160/v34n3.2468

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Authors

Nguyen Duy Phuong VAST
Najaren Tuteja Agricultural Genetic Institute
Le Huy Ham Agricultural Genetic Institute
Pham Xuan Hoi Agricultural Genetic Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15625/0866-7160/v34n3.2468

Keywords:

E. coli, Drought tolerance, expression vector, recombinant protein, transcription factor, NLI

Abstract

In order to investigate the expression level of NLI-IF (Nuclear LIM Interactor-Interacting Factor) transcription factor - encoding gene which involved in drought tolerance in rice and identiflied in vitro DNA - binding ability of NLI-IF, we expressed and purified recombinant protein NLI-IF from E. coli Rossetta. 1,3 kb NLI-IF - encoding sequence was cut from pGEMT/NLI-IF and inserted into EcoRI/XhoI site in MCS of expression vector pET28a. pET28a/NLI-IF was transformed into E. coli Rossetta. 52 kDa recombinant protein NLI-IF was expressed optimally in E. coli using 0.1 mM IPTG as an inducer, at 20^oC, for 5 h. We were successful in purification of recombinant protein NLI-IF using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography systerm. Purified protein has an ability of binding, specifically, to anti-His-tag antibody in Westerrn blot assay.