摘要:
@ A rat or human lingual lipase protein for use in the treatment of lipase deficiency. A process is described for producing lingual lipase using recombinant DNA technoloy to produce a host organism (for example E.coli) capable of producing a precursor of the lingual lipase which may be cleaved to yield the lingual lipase. The host organism is transformed with a vector including a gene coding for the precursor of lingual lipase. The precursor protein is for example prelingual lipase protein, or a fusion protein comprising lingual lipase and a heterologous protein. A pharmaceutical composition in unit dosage or liquid form is described.
摘要:
A process is described for the production of the proteolytic enzyme chymosin. The process involves cleaving chymosin precursor polypeptides such as methionine-prochymosin, preprochymosin and methionine-chymosin expressed from a host organism which has been transformed with a vector system carrying the relevant gene. The gene sequence of preprochymosin is given. The vector systems used are plasmids adapted for the transformation of either bacterial or eukaryotic host organisms. E. Coli and saccharomyces cerevisiae are specific examples of suitable host organisms. There is also described an oligonucleotide capable of being used as a specific hybridisation probe or transcription primer for mRNA containing the nucleotide sequence coding for chymosin. A microassay for chymosin activity is also described.