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Purification and Refolding to Amyloid Fibrils of His6-tagged Recombinant Shadoo Protein Expressed as Inclusion Bodies in E. coli
Published on: December 19, 2015
Refolding Proteins from Inclusion Bodies using Differential Scanning Fluorimetry Guided (DGR) Protein Refolding and
Mark E Lee1, Xiaoyi Dou1,2, Yingmin Zhu1,3
1Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
Differential Scanning Fluorimetry Guided Refolding (DGR) is a simple methodology that can be used to rapidly screen for and identify conditions capable of accurately refolding protein preparations, such as those obtained from Escherichia coli inclusion bodies. It allows for the production in E. coli of functional proteins that would otherwise require far more expensive production methods. This unit describes how to set up a DGR refolding assay, perform DGR refolding trials in microplate format, use MeltTraceur Web software to interactively analyze the resulting data, scale-up protein production via refolding, and lastly, validate that the protein is properly folded. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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