Re: [ccp4bb] Auto-proteolysis

2015-05-26 Thread Shane Caldwell
Hi Mohammad, I'm not sure anyone here can give you absolute answers, because we don't know enough about your system, but there's 3 things you might want to explore: 1. Contaminating proteases, even at tiny amounts, could lead to appreciable cleavage of your protein over the length of a

Re: [ccp4bb] Auto-proteolysis

2015-05-26 Thread Boaz Shaanan
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Auto-proteolysis Dear all, I am working on a His-tag recombinant protein with two domains, which I purify using affinity chromatography. When I set up crystallization of the same, it gave me crystals in two different conditions- one was the complete protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Auto-proteolysis

2015-05-26 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Extraordinary conclusions require extraordinary proof, yes? If you are completely convinced (!) that auto-proteolysis is possible (meaning that the enzyme you're studying is at least a proteinase in potentia, and also you have utterly ruled out contamination by host proteases) then the next step

[ccp4bb] Auto-proteolysis

2015-05-25 Thread Mohammad Khan
Dear all, I am working on a His-tag recombinant protein with two domains, which I purify using affinity chromatography. When I set up crystallization of the same, it gave me crystals in two different conditions- one was the complete protein. The other just had the Domain2. Even on SDS-PAGE, I