Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Recombinant production of viral proteins can be used to produce vaccine antigens or reagents to identify antibodies in patient serum. Minimally, these proteins must be correctly folded and have appropriate post-translation modifications. Here we report the production of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein...

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Autores principales: Anthony J Berndt, Tressa N Smalley, Bijie Ren, Ryan Simkovsky, Amr Badary, Ashley E Sproles, Francis J Fields, Yasin Torres-Tiji, Vanessa Heredia, Stephen P Mayfield
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e852bfaff8a342708b82c8e319589b062021-12-02T20:19:10ZRecombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257089https://doaj.org/article/e852bfaff8a342708b82c8e319589b062021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257089https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Recombinant production of viral proteins can be used to produce vaccine antigens or reagents to identify antibodies in patient serum. Minimally, these proteins must be correctly folded and have appropriate post-translation modifications. Here we report the production of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) in the green algae Chlamydomonas. RBD fused to a fluorescent reporter protein accumulates as an intact protein when targeted for ER-Golgi retention or secreted from the cell, while a chloroplast localized version is truncated. The ER-retained RBD fusion protein was able to bind the human ACE2 receptor, the host target of SARS-CoV-2, and was specifically out-competed by mammalian cell-produced recombinant RBD, suggesting that the algae produced proteins are sufficiently post-translationally modified to act as authentic SARS-CoV-2 antigens. Because algae can be grown at large scale very inexpensively, this recombinant protein may be a low cost alternative to other expression platforms.Anthony J BerndtTressa N SmalleyBijie RenRyan SimkovskyAmr BadaryAshley E SprolesFrancis J FieldsYasin Torres-TijiVanessa HerediaStephen P MayfieldPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0257089 (2021)
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Anthony J Berndt
Tressa N Smalley
Bijie Ren
Ryan Simkovsky
Amr Badary
Ashley E Sproles
Francis J Fields
Yasin Torres-Tiji
Vanessa Heredia
Stephen P Mayfield
Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
description Recombinant production of viral proteins can be used to produce vaccine antigens or reagents to identify antibodies in patient serum. Minimally, these proteins must be correctly folded and have appropriate post-translation modifications. Here we report the production of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) in the green algae Chlamydomonas. RBD fused to a fluorescent reporter protein accumulates as an intact protein when targeted for ER-Golgi retention or secreted from the cell, while a chloroplast localized version is truncated. The ER-retained RBD fusion protein was able to bind the human ACE2 receptor, the host target of SARS-CoV-2, and was specifically out-competed by mammalian cell-produced recombinant RBD, suggesting that the algae produced proteins are sufficiently post-translationally modified to act as authentic SARS-CoV-2 antigens. Because algae can be grown at large scale very inexpensively, this recombinant protein may be a low cost alternative to other expression platforms.
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author Anthony J Berndt
Tressa N Smalley
Bijie Ren
Ryan Simkovsky
Amr Badary
Ashley E Sproles
Francis J Fields
Yasin Torres-Tiji
Vanessa Heredia
Stephen P Mayfield
author_facet Anthony J Berndt
Tressa N Smalley
Bijie Ren
Ryan Simkovsky
Amr Badary
Ashley E Sproles
Francis J Fields
Yasin Torres-Tiji
Vanessa Heredia
Stephen P Mayfield
author_sort Anthony J Berndt
title Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
title_short Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
title_full Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
title_fullStr Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
title_full_unstemmed Recombinant production of a functional SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
title_sort recombinant production of a functional sars-cov-2 spike receptor binding domain in the green algae chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/e852bfaff8a342708b82c8e319589b06
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