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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1988
Chisso Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A process for producing the protein part of Ca.sup.+2 -binding photoprotein aequorin (apoaequorin) according to a recombinant DNA technique, and a process for purifying the resulting apoaequorin are provided, which production process comprises cultivating a strain having an expression vector piP-HE outside the bacterial bodies transformed into Escherichia coli, followed by separating the resulting culture solution into the bacterial bodies and a culture filtrate, and recovering the culture filtrate, and which purification process comprises adding an acid to the culture filtrate so as to give a pH of 4.7 or less, followed by recovering the resulting white precipitates, dissolving the white precipitates in a buffer solution, reducing the solution, subjecting the resulting apoaequorin fraction to adsorption treatment according to anion exchange chromatography and subjecting the resulting apoaequorin to gel filtration.