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The new vaccines, especially subunit vaccines, need multiple administrations in order to maintain adequate life-long immune memory: this demands for high production levels and degree of purity.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this study, TB10.4, Ag85B and a TB10.4-Ag85B chimeric protein (here-after referred as <jats:italic>full<\/jats:italic>) - immunodominant antigens of <jats:italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/jats:italic> - were expressed in <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic> and purified to homogeneity. The rational design of expression constructs and optimization of fermentation and purification conditions allowed a marked increase in solubility and yield of the recombinant antigens. Indeed, scaling up of the process guaranteed mass production of all these three antigens (2.5-25\u00a0mg of pure protein\/L cultivation broth). Quality of produced soluble proteins was evaluated both by mass spectrometry to assess the purity of final preparations, and by circular dichroism spectroscopy to ascertain the protein conformation. 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