Prokaryotic Expression and Immunogenicity Analysis of N Protein from Vesicular Stomatitis Virus

This study was aimed to clone and express the specific antigen nucleoprotein (N) of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), and then purify and analyze its immunogenicity. Based on published VSV genome N gene sequence in GenBank, two kinds of N genes of VSV with different serotypes were synthesized, respectively. After sequence analysis, one pair of specific primers was designed and synthesized, N gene fragment with about 1 300 bp length was amplified by PCR, and subcloned into pCold Ⅰ expression vector. The recombinant N protein was induced with IPTG and purified by Ni-NTA. The results of SDS-PAGE showed that the N gene was successfully expressed in E. coli and the molecular weight of protein was 50 ku; The results of Western blotting showed that this recombined protein specifically reacted with polyclonal antibody serum of VSV. The recombinant vector with VSV-IND and VSV-NJ were successfully constructed, and the N protein was solubly expressed in E. coli, and the purified protein demonstrated promising immunogenicity.