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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 263, Issue 25, 12384-12390, Sep, 1988

Cloning of authentic human epidermal growth factor as a bacterial secretory protein and its initial structure-function analysis by site- directed mutagenesis

DA Engler, RK Matsunami, SR Campion, CD Stringer, A Stevens and SK Niyogi
Protein Engineering and Molecular Mutagenesis Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831-8077.

A synthetic chimeric gene, coding for the human epidermal growth factor fused to the signal peptide of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase, was cloned into E. coli under the transcriptional control of the trp- lac (tac) promoter. Following induction with isopropylthiogalactoside, the secretion of the correctly processed protein product into the bacterial periplasm was detected and quantitated by its specific binding to the epidermal growth factor receptor. The purified protein was identical to authentic human epidermal growth factor in size, amino acid composition, primary sequence, receptor binding, and stimulation of receptor protein-tyrosine kinase activity. Based on interspecies homologies, structural considerations, and reported studies with peptide fragments, structure-function analysis was initiated with alterations of targeted amino acid residues by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. The receptor binding affinity of each mutant, relative to the wild type, was measured by both radioreceptor competition and receptor tyrosine kinase stimulation assays. In general, the values obtained by the two methods were in agreement for each species of epidermal growth factor and followed the order: wild type greater than Glu24----Gly greater than Asp27----Gly much greater than Pro7----Thr greater than Tyr29----Gly greater than Leu47----His. The relatively low values obtained with the last two mutants suggest that Tyr29 and Leu47 may be important for the biological activity of human epidermal growth factor.
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