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Using Maltose-Binding Protein as a Solubility Enhancer AND Gateway™ Cloning Technology. Advantages of Affinity Tags. Facilitates Purification Predictable Interactions High Specificity Gentle (Indirect)
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Using Maltose-Binding Protein as a Solubility EnhancerANDGateway™ Cloning Technology
Advantages of Affinity Tags • Facilitates Purification Predictable Interactions High Specificity Gentle (Indirect) • Improves Yield Efficient Translation Initiation Protection from Proteolysis Enhances Solubility
Systematic Comparison ofSoluble Fusion Partners Passengers: TIMP2, p16, E6, CATD9, GFP, TEV protease
Solublility of Fusion Proteins Kapust & Waugh, Protein Science8:1668 (1999)
MBPs from Diverse Archaea and BacteriaAre Potent Solubility Enhancers Passengers: p16, E6, CATD9, GFP, DHFR, Rhodanese, Luciferase, G3PDH
E. coli MBP Can Facilitate the Folding of Its Fusion Partners Active Fusion Proteins CATD9 E6 TEV protease GFP G3PDH DHFR Inactive Fusion Proteins Luciferase Rhodanese
Vector for Controlling Intracellular Processing of Fusion Proteins
Delayed Induction of TEV ProteaseImproves the Solubility of YopN
Small Affinity Tags Tag Length Sequence Ligand Arg 5 RRRRR cation-exchange resin His 6 HHHHHH Ni-NTA FLAG 8 DYKDDDDK mAb Strep II 8 WSHPQFEK streptavidin BAP 13 LNDIFEAQKIEWH avidin/streptavidin
Structural Proteomics of Type III Secretion in Yersinia pestis
Overview of Progress to Date Cloned and Expressed 60% (36/60) Soluble Fusion Protein 89% (32/36) Soluble Target Protein 94% (30/32) Purified 67% (16/24) Crystallized 44% (7/16) Structure Solved 71% (5/7)
Anatomy of an MBP Fusion VectorConstructed by Recombinational Cloning
Advantages of Gateway Technology • Rapid • Efficient • Robust • Automatable …but a single entry clone can not be used for both fused and unfused expression
Acknowledgements Rachel Kapust* Karen Routzahn Jeff Fox* Matt Bucher* Joe Tropea *gone but not forgotten…