How to Express an Elusive Protein

How to Express an Elusive Protein

As a research intern this summer, part of my project included expressing and purifying a few proteins of interest. Two out of the three proteins posed no problem, but the third caused me to spend an agonizingly long amount of time– setting up new secondary cultures everyday, waiting for them to grow, forgetting to induce…

Protein Lysate TLC: Pro-Tips to Keep Your Protein Extracts in (Experimentally) Perfect Shape.

Protein Lysate TLC: Pro-Tips to Keep Your Protein Extracts in (Experimentally) Perfect Shape.

Do you need your protein in its native form, intact, with full functionality? Do you need to isolate organelles and nuclear fractions from the cytoplasm? Or do you need a slurry of everything in your cell or tissue? Whatever your experiment, you can maximize the amount of functional, detectable or active proteins by handling your…