| Chapter title |
Expression and Purification of Recombinant Proteins in Escherichia coli with a His6 or Dual His6-MBP Tag
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 1 |
| Book title |
Protein Crystallography
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7000-1_1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6998-2, 978-1-4939-7000-1
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| Authors |
Sreejith Raran-Kurussi, David S. Waugh |
| Editors |
Alexander Wlodawer, Zbigniew Dauter, Mariusz Jaskolski |
| Abstract |
Rapid advances in bioengineering and biotechnology over the past three decades have greatly facilitated the production of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli. Affinity-based methods that employ protein or peptide based tags for protein purification have been instrumental in this progress. Yet insolubility of recombinant proteins in E. coli remains a persistent problem. One way around this problem is to fuse an aggregation-prone protein to a highly soluble partner. E. coli maltose-binding protein (MBP) is widely acknowledged as a highly effective solubilizing agent. In this chapter, we describe how to construct either a His6- or a dual His6-MBP tagged fusion protein by Gateway(®) recombinational cloning and how to evaluate their yield and solubility. We also describe a simple and rapid procedure to test the solubility of proteins after removing their N-terminal fusion tags by tobacco etch virus (TEV) protease digestion. The choice of whether to use a His6 tag or a His6-MBP tag can be made on the basis of this solubility test. |
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