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Large-scale production and characterization of recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Nef

¹ Biomolecular Research Institute
and² CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering, 343 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052
and³ Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Fairfield Hospital, Fairfield, Victoria, Australia

Sequences encoding the 27K and 25K nef gene products (Nef 27 and Nef 25) were amplified by PCR from a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infectious clone and subcloned directly into Escherichia coli, yeast and baculovirus expression vectors. The yeast- and baculovirus-derived Nef had native N termini but the expression levels were low. The expression levels of the E. coli-derived glutathione S-transferase-Nef fusion proteins were very high and a major portion was soluble. Large-scale production of E. coli-derived Nef27 and Nef 25 was carried out by growing recombinant cells in a fermenter under fed-batch conditions followed by affinity purification on glutathione-Sepharose before and after thrombin cleavage. Large quantities of highly purified recombinant Nef proteins have been produced for functional and structural studies. Under non-reducing conditions both Nef 27 and Nef 25 existed as a mixture of monomers, dimers and small amounts of higher oligomers, but when reduced were monomeric. The highly purified Nef proteins had no G protein activities, however Nef 27 was biologically active. When electroporated into uninfected CD4⁺ T lymphocytes both E. coli-derived Nef 27 and yeast-derived myristylated Nef 27 down-regulated the surface expression of CD4, demonstrating that this method can be used to assess the biological activity of purified recombinant Nef.

Received 1 September 1993; accepted 18 October 1993.

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