Simple bioseparations using self-cleaving elastin-like polypeptide tags
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Non-chromatographic Purification of Recombinant Elastin-like Polypeptides and their Fusions with Peptides and Proteins from Escherichia coli
Published on: June 9, 2014
Mahmoud Reza Banki1, Liang Feng, David W Wood
1Department of Chemical Engineering, A213 E-QUAD, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Nature Methods
|August 3, 2005
Abstract:
We introduce a new method for the purification of recombinant proteins expressed in Escherichia coli using self-cleaving elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) fusion tags without the need for affinity chromatography or proteolytic tag removal. Using this method we obtained high purity, activity and reasonable yields for ten diverse target proteins.

