[quoting adjusted, please don't produce TOFU (1)]
Michael Witty <mw132 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 22 Mar 2001, Debashis Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>[...]
>> I have a protein domain which is cloned and expressed
>> in E.coli having an N-terminal His-tag and a Thrombin
>> cleavage site just after that. The idea is to get rid
>> of the tag for crystallisation purposes by thrombin
>> treatment. Can you point me to any reference(s), ideal
>> for a novice, having details for the same and
>> subsequent purification steps to eliminate the
>> contaminants! Any nice protocol would as well be good!
>. . . a lot of people would say, don't bother removing the tag if you can
>demonstrate activity with the tag present. Can you easily do that? Mike.
But the hist tag might well interfere with crystallization (it might
even improve it...).
Bye, Frank
(1) TOFU: no, not the meat replacement, it's German usenet jargon for
"Text oben, Fullquote unten" (Text above, Fullquote below, or perhaps
'Text over Fullquote underneath')
