Large-scale purification of a stable form of recombinant tobacco etch virus protease
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Lucast, LJ
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Yale Univ, Dept Mol Biophys & Biochem, Howard Hughes Med Inst, New Haven, CT 06511 USAYale Univ, Dept Mol Biophys & Biochem, Howard Hughes Med Inst, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
Lucast, LJ
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Batey, RT
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Yale Univ, Dept Mol Biophys & Biochem, Howard Hughes Med Inst, New Haven, CT 06511 USAYale Univ, Dept Mol Biophys & Biochem, Howard Hughes Med Inst, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
Batey, RT
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Doudna, JA
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Doudna, JA
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Tobacco etch virus NIa proteinase (NIa-Pro) has become the enzyme of choice for removing tags and fusion domains from recombinant proteins in vitro. We have designed a mutant NIa-Pro that resists autoproteolytic inactivation and present an efficient method for producing large amounts of this enzyme that is highly pare, active and stable over time. Histidine-tagged forms of both wild-type and mutant NIa-Pro were overexpressed in E. coli under conditions in which greater than 95% of the protease was in the insoluble fraction after cell lysis. An inclusion body preparation followed by denaturing purification over a single affinity column and protein renaturation yields greater than 12.5 mg enzyme per lifer of bacterial cell culture. NIa-Pro purified according to this protocol has been used for quantitative removal of fusion domains from a variety of proteins prepared for crystallization and biochemical analysis.