Li Y, Ling H, Li W, Tan H
(2005)
Metabolic Engineering,
7,
165-173 |
Drug Studies |
None |
Protein recombinantly expressed as and refolded from inclusion bodies. |
Escherichia coli |
BL21(DE3) |
37.0 |
4 h |
pET23b |
The PCR products of sanU and sanV were purified and digested with NdeI and HindIII, then ligated into the same sites of pET23b to generate pET23b::sanU and pET23b::sanV, respectively. Plasmids pET23b::sanU and pET23b::sanV were designed to give C-terminally His-tagged SanU and SanV, respectively. They were introduced into E. coli BL21 (DE3) for overexpression.The resulting transformants containing pET23b::sanU were grown at 37 °C overnight in LB medium with ampicillin (100 μg/ml). 0.5 ml of the above overnight culture was inoculated to 100 ml LB medium and incubated at 37 °C on a rotary shaker. At OD600=0.4, the culture was induced by 0.5 mM IPTG and grown at 25 °C for a further 4 h before harvesting.
|
IPTG |
OD 0.4 =
600 |
Sonication |
None |
Metal affinity chromatography |
insoluble |
Dialysis |
100 mM PBS buffe |
6 M guanidine hydrochloride |
0.1 M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7.6, containing 0.5 M guanidine hydrochloride, 10% (v/v) glycerol and 1 mM DTT |
Metal affinity chromatography |
no tag |
7.6 |
25.0 |
n/a |
n/a |
DTT |
1 mM |
The supernant was removed and the pellet was collected, and solubilized in binding buffer with 6 M guanidine hydrochloride. The solution was stirred at room temperature for 1 h and then insoluble material was removed by centrifugation at 13000 rpm for 15 min. Subsequently, solubilized SanV was applied to Ni-NTA affinity chromatography column according to the procedure of purification for inclusion body. The elution containing solubilized SanV was dialyzed in 100 mM PBS buffer to remove guanidine hydrochloride. Then, solubilized SanV was refolded according to method mentioned by Holloway et al. (1996), except that 0.5 M instead of 1 M guanidine hydrochloride was used. During the refolded process, the solution was stirred gently for 1 h and the residual guanidine hydrochloride was removed by dialysis against 100 mM PBS buffer containing 1 mM DTT and 10% (v/v) glycerol. The dialytic sample was cleared by centrifugation at 13000 rpm for 10 min and then concentrated to 4 mg/ml. |
enzyme activity |
None |
Glycerol |
10% |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |