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GST fusions and antibodies

Cornelius Krasel krasel at wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de
Fri Sep 12 04:14:30 EST 1997


Mara Michelle Casar (mmc9 at acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
> I am trying to get some information about producting antibodies to GST 
> fusion proteins.  I have two proteins I want to send off for 
> immunizations, but I need advice first:
> 
> 1.  To cleave or not to cleave?  My fused piece is about 9 kD, and seems 
> pretty stable, but is it better to send the whole protein, which should 
> be more immunogenic?

However, you would then have to purify your serum over a GST-GSH column
since you will get a lot of anti-GST.

--Cornelius.

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