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From 2011.igem.org

His-tag affinity chromatography

Bilder: HisTrap, ÄKTA, Säulen

Polyhistidine tags are used for easy purification. They bind to Cobalt or Nickel ions which are normally immobilized on chromatography beads or in spin columns. We used a 1 mL HisTrap FF crude by GE Healthcare in combination with a GE Healthcare ÄKTAprime™ plus FPLC device or just with a syringe which is possible with these columns. We did not test commercial spin column kits for his-tag purification but perhaps it even works with these (offered e.g. by Qiagen). After binding the proteins from the filtered cell lysate to the column they were eluted with 50 mM imidazol. This fraction was collected and dialysed against ddH₂O at 4 °C for 18 h using dialysis tubes by Roth with 6 kDa cut-off.

Bilder: SDS-PAGE, NanoDrop,

After the dialysis you have purified S-layer fusion protein monomers which are ready to assemble (the so called monomer solution). Check the protein concentration (e.g. BCA assay or NanoDrop) and dilute to 1 mg mL^-1. Check the purity of your monomer solution by SDS-PAGE as well.

Now you have your S-layer monomer solution and can start immobilization and recrystallization to build functionalized nanobiotechnological surfaces.

We have tested a lot of purification strategies - look them up in our upstream and downstream protocols.