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Prokaryotic Expression, Purification, and Protein-interaction Analysis of Human FOXA1 Protein
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    To identify proteins interacting with transcription factor FOXA1,different prokaryotic expression vectors for human FOXA1 protein were constructed and the proteins of FOXA1 C-terminus and FOXA1 N-terminus were purified. They provided a material foundation for future studies of FOXA1-interacted proteins. Total RNAs were extracted from human breast cancer MCF7 cells and reverse transcribed into cDNAs. The full length cDNA of FOXA1 was amplified by PCR, and the C-terminal and N terminal segments were also amplified respectively. The different FOXA1 cDNA fragments were cloned into a prokaryotic expression vector pGEX-4T-1. The correct vectors were confirmed by double restriction enzyme digestion and DNA sequencing and transformed into E. coli BL21 Rosetta DE3. The FOXA1 proteins were purified with Glutathione Sepharose 4B and analyzed through SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and Western blot. GST Pull-down experiments were performed with lysates of MCF7 cells and FOXA1 proteins to test the interaction between FOXA1 and a known FOXA1-interacted protein TLE3.Prokaryotic expression vectors of pGEX-4T-1-FOXA1-C and pGEX-4T-1-FOXA1-N were constructed successfully. The proteins of FOXA1 C-terminus (GST-FOXA1-C) and FOXA1 N-terminus (GST-FOXA1-N) were purified by Glutathione Sepharose 4B. It was confirmed that the purified GST-FOXA1-C was able to interact with the known FOXA1-interacted protein TLE3 in the Pull-down experiment.

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