Hi Song,
I think Lam4 STARTkin domain could be a good choice for you. It expresses quite 
well in E.coli and migrate nicely in the SDS-PAGE gel. The protein is quite 
stable and molecular weight of this protein is 20.5KDa. You can find the 
structure and sequence that have used here http://www.rcsb.org/structure/5YQJ.
Best wishes,
Mohammad Kawsar Manik
Kobe lab, The University of Queensland


From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of "Tan, Song" 
<[email protected]>
Reply-To: "Tan, Song" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 7 January 2019 at 9:25 am
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [ccp4bb] looking for 10-20 kDa proteins that express well and migrate 
appropriately on SDS-PAGE

Dear Colleagues,

As a followup to my lab’s plasmids for making DNA molecular weight 
markers<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sxt30/projects_DNA_ladders.html> for about 
one cent per lane (Henrici et al, Scientific Reports, 7:2438, 
2017<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02693-1>; plasmids are 
available from Addgene), we are working on a similar project to produce protein 
MW markers in E. coli.  We are having problems finding 10-20 kDa proteins that 
express solubly at high levels in E. coli and that migrate appropriately on 
SDS-PAGE.  We have eliminated multiple proteins including thioredoxin and DHFR 
that express very well but that migrate anomalously slowly on SDS-PAGE.

So we are looking for proteins which fulfill the following criteria:

1.  MW = 8-10 kDa or 18-20 kDa,
2.  Express as soluble protein in E. coli,
3.  Can be purified from E. coli with yields of greater than 10 mg/L culture,
3.  Migrate appropriately on SDS-PAGE.

We hope to create a simple and inexpensive system for producing protein MW 
ladders, and to distribute the plasmids through Addgene.  Plan is to coexpress 
multiple proteins using our polycistronic expression 
system<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sxt30/projects_polycistronic.html> to make 
the production process simpler.

If you know of proteins that fulfill all of the above criteria, please do drop 
me a line.

Regards and thanks,

Song

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Dr. Song Tan
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
108 Althouse Laboratory   (office in 468A North Frear Lab)
Penn State University
University Park, PA   16802
email:  [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
phone:  814-865-3355     fax: 814-863-7024
web:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/sxt30


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