Translational activity-promoting higher-order structure
AssigneeNational Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
InventorsNobuhiko Nakashima, Yasushi Kanamori
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Abstract
The present invention was conceived from the findings; that a specific higher-order structure can be formed in CrP-like viruses; that linkage of a gene reading frame downstream in the higher-order structure permits initiating the translation of a protein from various amino acids; and that a change in the combination of base pairs involved in the formation of the higher-order structure immediately upstream in the translation initiation site permits initiating the synthesis of any protein from any codon.
Claims10
A method for synthesizing a heterologous protein or a heterologous polypeptide comprising the steps of
- providing a cell-free protein expressing system,
- providing a polynucleotide encoding the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide and a polynucleotide that promotes translation activity, wherein the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity has an RNA higher-order structure including PK (pseudoknot) I, II, and III structures and is selected from:
- 1) one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOs:
- 1–7;
- 2) a base sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, except that positions 187–188 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 are cc instead of uu and positions 159–160 are gg instead of aa;
- and
- 3) a base sequence containing the base sequence of 1) or 2);
- and
- wherein the polynucleotide encoding the heterologous protein or heterologous polyptptide is immediately downstream from the PKI structure of the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity,
- translating the polynucleotide encoding the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide in the cell-free protein expressing system to form the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide, wherein the translating is initiated and/or promoted by the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity, and
- isolating the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide.
A method for initiating synthesis of an arbitrary heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide from an arbitrary codon which comprises the steps of
- providing a cell-free protein expressing system,
- providing a polynucleotide encoding the arbitrary heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide and a polynucleotide that promotes translation activity, wherein the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity has PK (pseudoknot) I, II, and III structures in a RNA higher-order structure having a function for promoting a translation activity, wherein the polynucleotide encoding the heterologous protein or heterologous polyptptide is immediately downstream from the PKI structure of the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity and wherein the RNA higher-order structure has a base sequence selected from:
- 1) one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOs:
- 1–7;
- 2) abase sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, except that positions 187–188 of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 are cc instead of uu and positions 159–160 are gg instead of aa;
- and
- 3) a base sequence containing the base sequence of 1) or 2),
- translating the polynucleotide encoding the arbitrary heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide from an arbitrary codon in the cell-free protein expressing system to form the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide, wherein the translating is initiated and/or promoted by the polynucleotide that promotes translation activity, and
- isolating the heterologous protein or heterologous polypeptide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.