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Protein Expression and Purification.
The recombinant proteins expressed in Escherichia coli (E. coli) BL21 (DE3) RIPL cells were purified according to previously described protocols10, 12. Influenza HA4900 was purified from HEK293F suspension cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific®, MA) according to previous reports31. Briefly, the pAAV-ITRs-HA4900 plasmid was transiently transduced into HEK293F cells maintained in FreeStyle® 293 expression medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific®, MA) using the 293Fectin™ transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific®, MA). The cells were then incubated at 37° C. and 8% CO2 while shaking at 130 rpm overnight. After 12 h, an equal volume of fresh medium supplemented with sodium butyrate solution (enhancing protein expression, 2 nM final concentration) (Sigma-Aldrich®, MO) was added to the cells. On day 7, the pure supernatants were harvested by centrifugation and filtered over 0.22-μm filters (Sartorius Stedim Biotech, Germany). Proteins were purified using HisTrapHP and gel filtration columns (GE Healthcare™, IL).