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Protein Transport 369<br />

refolded correctly by cellular chaperones such as HSP90 in order to regain biological<br />

activity. 24<br />

Following extraction from bacteria, the 6xHis-tagged recombinant proteins are<br />

purified by immobilized metal affinity chromatography, followed by ion exchange<br />

and, finally, gel filtration chromatography. Using this technique, full-length Tat<br />

fusion proteins of 15 to 121 kDa in size and spanning a wide variety of functional<br />

classes, including p16, 25 p27, 20 adenovirus E1A, HPV E7, Caspase-3, 26 HIV protease,<br />

26 Cu,Zn-SOD, 27 eGFP, 28 Bcl-X L, 29 Rho, 30 IκB, 31 p73 dominant-negative, 32<br />

E2F-1 dominant-negative, 33 Cre recombinase (unpublished), CRAC 34 and pRB<br />

(unpublished), have been ex<strong>press</strong>ed, purified and shown to be competent for cellular<br />

uptake and biological activity. The purified Tat fusion proteins can be added directly<br />

into the media or used to inject and transduce whole animals.<br />

In vitro, both primary and transformed cell types, including peripheral blood<br />

lymphocytes, diploid human fibroblasts, keratinocytes, bone marrow stem cells,<br />

osteoclasts, fibrosarcoma cells, leukemic T cells, osteosarcoma, glioma, hepatocellular<br />

carcinoma, renal carcinoma, and NIT 3T3 cells are transducible with recombinant<br />

proteins. The uptake of these proteins is rapid (

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