Is your recombinant protein lacking the necessary post-translational modifications (PTMs)? See how LEXSY can help!
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) like glycosylation are often essential for the correct folding and function of proteins. Prokaryotic expression systems such as E. coli cannot perform these modifications, which can lead to inactive or misfolded proteins.
The eukaryotic expression system LEXSY is able to carry out many post-translational protein modifications while retaining the ease of handling of prokaryotic systems. The most notable PTM is a human-like glycosylation pattern, but more than 10 other modifications have been achieved with LEXSY.
Figure 1: Comparison between the glycosylation patterns of human and LEXSY-produced proteins.
| Modification | Selected references |
|---|---|
| Disulfide bond formation | Hong et al. 20081 |
| Multimerization | Phan et al. 20092 |
| Proteolytic processing | Basak et al. 20083 |
| Glycosylation | Breitling et al. 20024 |
| Glypiation | Basak et al. 20083 |
| Prenylation | Gillespie et al. 20075 |
| Methylation | Rosenzweig et al. 20086 |
| Phosphorylation | Rosenzweig et al..20086 |
| Acetylation | Gazdag et al. 20107 |
| Myristoylation | Sahin et al. 20088 |
| Amidation | Liu et al. 20009 |
| Glutathionylation | Melchers et al. 200710 |
| ADP-Ribosylation | Sahin et al. 20088 |
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