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Fast and easy protocol for the purification of recombinant S‐layer protein for synthetic biology applications
Author(s) -
Norville Julie E.,
Kelly Deborah F.,
Knight Thomas F.,
Belcher Angela M.,
Walz Thomas
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
biotechnology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.144
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1860-7314
pISSN - 1860-6768
DOI - 10.1002/biot.201100024
Subject(s) - divalent , recombinant dna , synthetic biology , protein engineering , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , computational biology , combinatorial chemistry , enzyme , gene , organic chemistry
A goal of synthetic biology is to make biological systems easier to engineer. One of the aims is to design, with nanometer‐scale precision, biomaterials with well‐defined properties. The surface‐layer protein SbpA forms 2D arrays naturally on the cell surface of Lysinibacillus sphaericus , but also as the purified protein in solution upon the addition of divalent cations. The high propensity of SbpA to form crystalline arrays, which can be simply controlled by divalent cations, and the possibility to genetically alter the protein, make SbpA an attractive molecule for synthetic biology. To be a useful tool, however, it is important that a simple protocol can be used to produce recombinant wild‐type and modified SbpA in large quantities and in a biologically active form. The present study addresses this requirement by introducing a mild and non‐denaturing purification protocol to produce milligram quantities of recombinant, active SbpA.