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Purification of serine hydroxymethyltransferase from Bacillus stearothermophilus with ion-exchange high-performance
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.
Journal of Chromatography
|April 10, 1992
Abstract:
The gene of serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) of a thermophilic bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus was expressed in Escherichia coli, and SHMT was successfully purified from the crude extract of E. coli in two steps while maintaining the enzymatic activity. The purification steps involved ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by high-performance liquid chromatographic separation using the anion-exchange column Fractogel EMD DEAE-650(S). In addition to the DEAE column, three other types of anion- and cation-exchange columns were also studied for their ability to separate SHMT, and the performance of the four columns were compared.