Sorry, My Email address has changed since I set up my reader. Anyone
replying by Email should respond to this post. Thanks, Mike
> I am working on an expression system for human secretory IgA. I have a
> cDNA clone of the human J chain but it does not contain the signal
> sequence. I cannot seem to find the sequence in genbank (has a genomic
> clone but missing the sig seq exon) or Kabat (by computer). The only copy
> of the 1991 book version of Kabat is out of the library until the 16th.
> If anyone has access to Kabats Sequences of proteins of immunologic
> interest...
> could you look to see if it is there.
>> The other option is to just use the mouse signal sequence, which is in
> Kabat. These antibodies will be expressed in CHO cells. Does anyone
> forsee a problem with this strategy? A Blast search using the mouse
> signal peptide sequence turned up no other mouse signal seqs so I assume
> that it has a unique function so that I should probably be careful about
> which signal sequence I use.
> My knowlege of protein trafficking is pretty weak.
> All comments and suggestions appreciated.
>> Mike
