| Lim BL, Holmskov U.
(1996)
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Com,
218,
260-6 |
| Expression and identification |
| N-terminal hexahistidine tag |
| Protein recombinantly expressed as and refolded from inclusion bodies. |
| Escherichia coli |
| BL21(DE3) |
| 37.0 |
| 2 h |
| pGex-2T |
| Overexpression of the recombinant conglutinin in E. coli. A colony carrying the expression plasmid was inoculated into 20 ml of LA (Luria-Bertani medium + 100 mg/L ampicillin) and grown for 5 hours at 37°C. After keeping the bacterial culture at 4°C overnight, the cells were sedimented by centrifugation and inoculated into 1 litre LA. After 2.5 hours at 37°C, protein expression was induced by 0.1 mM IPTG and the culture was allowed to grow for 2 hours at 37°C. The cells were harvested by centrifugation at 5000g for 15 minutes. The cells were resuspended by E. coli lysis buffer (15ml/litre culture) and lysed by sonication (3 × 1 min). |
| IPTG |
| OD n/a =
n/a |
| Sonication |
| None |
| Metal affinity chromatography |
| insoluble |
| Dilution |
| TBS (20 mM Tris-HCl, 140 mM NaCl, 0.05% (w/v) NaN3, pH 7.4) |
| 1 × TBS, 6M Urea, 0.05% (v/v) Tween-20, 20 mM CaCl2 |
| TBS/NTC containing 20 mM CaCl, in a two step manner |
| Metal affinity chromatography |
| no |
| 0.0 |
| 4.0 |
| n/a |
| n/a |
| None |
| n/a |
| The pellet, after centrifugation at 12000g for 15 minutes, contained the recombinant product. After washing twice in TBS, the pellet was dissolved in denaturing buffer, by gentle shaking at room temperature. Undissolved particulates were removed by centrifugation at 12000g and the supernatant was passed through a His-Band affinity column (3 cm × 10 mm) which had been equilibrated in the denaturing buffer. Non-binding proteins were washed away with the denaturing buffer and the fusion protein was eluted by elution buffer. For refolding, the protein was diluted 6 fold (final urea concentration 􏰰 1M) and 2 fold (final urea concentration 􏰰 0.5M) by TBS/NTC containing 20 mM CaCl2, in a two step manner. Each step was carried out overnight at 4°C. The refolded material was then dialysed against 3 changes of one litre TBS/NTC before passing through a N-acetylglucosamine-TSK column (16 mm × 150 mm). N-acetylglucosamine was coupled to TSK beads as described (13). After washing with TBS/NTC, the bound protein was eluted by TBS/EDTA. |
| ELISA |
| None |
| None |
| n/a |
| n/a |
| n/a |
| n/a |