Wouldn't bacteriorhodopsin be a good choice, especially since it's colored and easy to express? Seems pretty expensive for a class, though, with all the detergents involved...
JPK On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ho Leung Ng <h...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am developing an undergraduate biochemistry lab class and > would like to incorporate experiments with membrane proteins. Does > anyone have suggestions on membrane proteins that are relatively easy > to express, purify, and assay? Bonus points for crystallizable! At the > moment, my leading candidate is aquaporin AqpZ from E. coli. I am > planning to express the membrane protein as a GFP fusion so students > can easily follow it through the course of the labs. > > > Thank you, > Ho > > Ho Leung Ng > University of Hawaii at Manoa > Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry > h...@hawaii.edu > -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
