[ccp4bb] Protease inhibitor cocktails and protein crystallization.

2011-03-10 Thread Pascal Egea
Dear All, I apologize if the questions has already been asked on this forum. We are purifying a membrane that seems prone to proteolysis. Although we use Protease Inhibitor cocktails during lysis and the first step of purification we get rid of them after and only keep PMSF and EDTA as general

Re: [ccp4bb] Protease inhibitor cocktails and protein crystallization

2011-03-10 Thread Mark A Saper
Regarding adding inhibitors. I'm not sure the effect on crystallization but if you use too much you will get covalent modification of your protein from one of them (I can check my notes as to which one). We searched many MS databases of protein modifications to realize why our protein was the