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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 13, 8192-8197, 05, 1991

Recombinant carbohydrate and selenomethionyl variants of human choriogonadotropin

W Chen and OP Bahl
Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo 14260.

Recombinant human choriogonadotropin and selenomethionyl human choriogonadotropin (rhCG and SehCG) were expressed in baculovirus expression system by coinfection of SF9 insect cells by recombinant viruses, AcMNPV-hCG alpha and AcMNPV-hCG beta containing hCG alpha and hCG beta cDNAs. The expression efficiency of both rhCG and SehCG was quite high. The association of the alpha and beta subunits into a dimer was apparently complete since no detectable amount of rhCG beta was found in the rhCG eluate from the monoclonal hCG beta antibody immunoaffinity column. Both rhCG and SehCG preparations were homogeneous as indicated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. The apparent molecular mass of rhCG and SehCG on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions was about 38 kDa while under reducing conditions the heterodimer dissociated to yield beta and alpha subunits with molecular masses of 22.5 and 18 kDa, respectively. The carbohydrate analysis of rhCG showing the presence of 2.1, 3.3, 7.38, 4.2, and 27.8 residues of Fuc, GalNAC, GlcNAC, Gal, and Man, respectively, per mole of the hormone was consistent with the presence of 4 N-linked high mannose type carbohydrate hydrate and 4 O-linked simple carbohydrate chains, probably made up of Gal-GalNAC. Despite the altered glycosylation, rhCG demonstrated close similarity to the native urinary hCG in amino acid composition, receptor binding, and in its ability to stimulate cAMP and steroidogenesis. This indicates that there is no specificity of carbohydrate required for biological activity. Furthermore, it implies that the alteration from the complex to high mannose type carbohydrates in rhCG does not affect its proper folding. Finally, amino acid analysis of SehCG showed that 84% of methionine residues in rhCG were replaced by selenomethionine.
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