This paper compares the activity of various proteases (Prescission is GST 
tagged HRV 3C) in detergents; PP should be active in DDM.


Vergis, J. M., & Wiener, M. C. (2011). The variable detergent sensitivity of 
proteases that are utilized for recombinant protein affinity tag removal. 
Protein Expression and Purification, 78(2), 139–142. 
doi:10.1016/j.pep.2011.04.011


How old is your prescission stock – we had had some issues with (quite old) 
protease not working as well as fresh.


Alice


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Alice Dawson
WNH Lab
Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery
College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee
01382 385744


From: Qiangmin Zhang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: Qiangmin Zhang 
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Date: Monday, 8 April 2013 18:22
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Subject: [ccp4bb] Anyone has experience with digesting membrane protein by 
precession protease

Hello everybody,

I just purified a membrane protein tagged with GFP, which has a cleavage site 
of precession protease. And I got a problem with removing the GFP tag by 
precession protease (1mM DTT and 1 mM EDTA were included in the buffer). It can 
not cut my protein. I have already tried to digest it in different detergent 
like DDM and C12E8 (also different concentration for detergent like lowering 
the detergent to 1.1 x cmc since a recent science paper lowered the detergent 
to this level and got it worked). I know this depends on the different 
proteins. I am wondering if anyone has this experience in digesting membrane 
protein by precession protease. Any suggestions are appreciated. Otherwise I 
might have to go back to just his-tag if there is no trick for that. Thank you 
so much in advance.

All the best

Qiangmin Zhang


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