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For chemical synthesis of a gene coding for human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), DNA sequence predicted by the amino acid sequence of human TNF molecule was prepared. Codons were chosen according to the codon usage in Escherichia coli (E. coli). The 490 bp gene was assembled by enzymic ligation of 42 oligonucleotides and was cloned into a vector (pKK223-3) for high expression of active TNF-alpha in E. coli. With use of site-directed mutagenesis on this DNA, five different muteins of TNF-alpha were synthesized. TNF-M1 and TNF-M4 have deletions of His-73 and Gln-102, respectively. These deletions didn't cause loss of the cytotoxic activity against L929 cells. TNF-M5, which has a substitution of Asp-10 to Arg, had the similar cytotoxic activity to that of TNF-alpha. The cytotoxic spectra against several tumor cells were not changed by this substitution. TNF-M3 has an amino acid substitution of Glu-116 to His which occupies this position in human TNF-beta. This substitution didn't change the cytotoxicity. In addition, evidence was presented that the change of the carboxyl terminal residue doesn't always influence the cytotoxic activity of TNF-alpha. Many different muteins were also isolated by random mutagenesis with hydroxylamine-HCl. One of the muteins, which carries a mutation of His-15 to Tyr, lost the cytotoxic activity almost completely.
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