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A heme fusion tag for protein affinity purification and quantification
Author(s) -
Asher Wesley B.,
Bren Kara L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
protein science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.353
H-Index - 175
eISSN - 1469-896X
pISSN - 0961-8368
DOI - 10.1002/pro.460
Subject(s) - maltose binding protein , heme , chemistry , azurin , histidine , affinity chromatography , protein purification , sepharose , chromatography , absorbance , lysis , biochemistry , escherichia coli , fusion protein , amino acid , recombinant dna , organic chemistry , copper , gene , enzyme
We report a novel affinity‐based purification method for proteins expressed in Escherichia coli that uses the coordination of a heme tag to an L ‐histidine‐immobilized sepharose (HIS) resin. This approach provides an affinity purification tag visible to the eye, facilitating tracking of the protein. We show that azurin and maltose binding protein are readily purified from cell lysate using the heme tag and HIS resin. Mild conditions are used; heme‐tagged proteins are bound to the HIS resin in phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, and eluted by adding 200–500 m M imidazole or binding buffer at pH 5 or 8. The HIS resin exhibits a low level of nonspecific binding of untagged cellular proteins for the systems studied here. An additional advantage of the heme tag‐HIS method for purification is that the heme tag can be used for protein quantification by using the pyridine hemochrome absorbance method for heme concentration determination.

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