The invention discloses a method for expression of a PCV 2 (
Porcine circovirus type2) Cap
protein by a pFast Bac Dual baculovirus. The method comprises the following steps of: amplifying a
gene fragment of an encoded PCV 2 Cap
protein with a His tag; connecting the
gene fragment to a pFast Bac Dual
plasmid so as to obtain a recombinant transfer
plasmid pFast Bac-p10-ORF2-pH-ORF2; transforming
Escherichia coli DH10Bac with the recombinant transfer
plasmid, and carrying out blue-white selection to obtain a recombinant
shuttle vector Bac-p10-ORF2-pH-ORF2; transfecting an
insect cell with the recombinant
shuttle vector so as to obtain a
recombinant baculovirus Ac.Dual-Cap; and poisoning the
insect cell with the
recombinant baculovirus, performing cultivation, then collecting the
insect cell, and purifying an expression product so as to obtain the recombinant Cap
protein. The method disclosed in the invention solves the problem of low expression level of the Cap protein in eukaryotic cells. The recombinant Cap protein in the invention is designed with a His tag, thus being beneficial to the follow-up purification. And the recombinant Cap protein has
biological activity superior to that of a Cap protein expressed by a
prokaryotic expression system, thus being applicable to establishment of epidemiological
diagnosis methods and reseach as well as development of PCV2
subunit vaccines.