Removal of Affinity Tags with TEV Protease.

Sreejith Raran-Kurussi, Scott Cherry, Di Zhang, David S Waugh

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2017

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Although affinity tags are highly effective tools for the expression and purification of recombinant proteins, they generally need to be removed prior to structural and functional studies. This chapter describes a simple method for overproducing a soluble form of a stable variant of tobacco etch virus (TEV) protease in Escherichia coli and a protocol for purifying it to homogeneity so that it can be used as a reagent for removing affinity tags from recombinant proteins by site-specific endoproteolysis. Further, we cleave a model substrate protein (MBP-NusG) in vitro using the purified TEV protease to illustrate a protease cleavage protocol that can be employed for simple pilot experiments and large-scale protein preparations.

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Sreejith Raran-Kurussi, Scott Cherry, Di Zhang, David S Waugh. Removal of Affinity Tags with TEV Protease. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2017;1586:221-230