Ampapathi RS, Creath AL, Lou DI, Craft JW Jr, Blanke SR, Legge GB.
(2008)
Journal of Molecular Biology,
1,
1 |
Undefined |
None |
Protein recombinantly expressed as and refolded from inclusion bodies. |
Escherichia coli |
BL21(DE3) |
37.0 |
4 h |
n/a |
CTA1 protein expression and purification
CTA1 and CTA1-T2 were overexpressed in E. coli BL21(DE3) transformed with plasmids harboring the genes encoding these proteins. For unlabeled samples, E. coli BL21(DE3) was cultured in LB supplemented with 50 μg/mL of ampicillin. 15N-labeled and 15N/13C-labeled protein samples were generated by culturing E. coli BL21(DE3) in M9 minimal media supplemented with 50 μg/mL of ampicillin and containing 15NH4Cl as well as 15(NH4)2SO4 and 13C-labeled glucose (Sigma-Aldrich) as the sole nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively.
2H/15N/13C-labeled CTA1-T2 was generated by first culturing transformed E. coli BL21(DE3) in 10 mL of M9 minimal media supplemented with 50 μg/mL of ampicillin and containing 15NH4Cl, 15(NH4)2SO4, and 13C-labeled glucose. After incubation for 4 h at 37 °C, the cells were harvested by centrifugation at 4000 rpm in an F21B-8x50Y rotor (FIBERLite, Piramoon Technologies, Inc.); the available pellet was resuspended in M9 in 2H2O and added to 1 L of M9 in 2H2O with 50 μg/mL of ampicillin. Cells were cultured to mid log phase (with OD600 being approximately 0.6), expression was induced with 0.1 mM IPTG, and expression continued overnight at 37 °C. |
IPTG |
OD n/a =
n/a |
Sonication |
Lysozyme |
None |
insoluble |
Dialysis |
50 mM Tris, pH 8.0, 2 mM EDTA, 2 mM DTT, 200 μg/mL of lysozyme (Sigma-Aldrich), and 10% B-PER |
6 M Gdm–HCl and 50 mM Tris, pH 8.0, |
20 mM Tris, pH 7.2, 100 mM NaCl, and 5% glycerol |
None |
no tag |
7.2 |
4.0 |
n/a |
n/a |
None |
n/a,n/a |
The resuspended cells were sonicated on ice and centrifuged at 13,000 rpm; the pellets were washed several times with homogenization buffer with a final wash in ultrapure water. The inclusion bodies were solubilized by suspending the pellets in 6 M Gdm–HCl and 50 mM Tris, pH 8.0, and allowed to incubate overnight at 4 °C with mixing. The solubilized proteins were renatured by dialysis against refolding buffer (20 mM Tris, pH 7.2, 100 mM NaCl, and 5% glycerol) at 4 °C. The refolded protein samples were centrifuged as previously described, filtered (0.45 μm), and purified at 4 °C using the ÄKTA™ FPLC System with a HiLoad™ 16/60 Superdex™ 75 prep grade gel filtration column (GE Healthcare). |
Unspecified,Gel filtration chromatography |
None |
None |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |