Mushroom lectins harboring carbohydrate binding specificity are powerful tools to detect glycoconjugates with N-linked or O-linked glycans for diagnosis. However, conventional preparation of diverse lectins and chemical labeling of target proteins remains a bottleneck. Here, we report a cell-free platform system for a recombinant fluorescent lectin by Escherichia coli extract in ExiProgen. Codon-optimized genes encoding the eight different types of mushroom lectins were successfully expressed as green fluorescent protein-fused forms in one-pot cell-free protein synthesis. Although the production yields of the recombinant proteins were depended on their coding genes, the resulting recombinant fluorescent lectins are apparent homo-multicomplex proteins with different molecular sizes and pI values. In hemagglutination inhibition assay, the lectins demonstrated agglutination activities towards various glycoconjugates. Moreover, GFP-fused lectins can be appliable to detect glycan binding specifies on using a glycan microarray. The glycan binding specificities of the flurescent lectins are also useful to analyze glycan epitopes expressed in different cancer cell lines. Taken together, these results provide an efficient and optimized procedure for the high-throughput synthesis and screening of lectin coding gene products based on in vitro production of the recombinant fluoresecnt lectins.
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Seonghun Kim [ Jeonbuk Branch Institute, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Daejeon 34113, Korea ]
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본 학회는 화학, 생화학, 분자생물학, 미생물학, 식품공학, 의학, 약학, 유전공학 및 생물공학, 환경 및 기타 공업 등 전 분야의 탄수화물관련 이론과 기술을 연구 발전시키고 산학협동을 통해 이를 보급하여 국내 관련 산업의 발전 및 국민생활의 과학화에 기여하고자 하며, 이러한 목표와 비젼의 실현을 위해 회원들이 적극적인 참여와 활동을 전개하고자 한다.