Step | Content | Duration | Remark |
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1 | Construction of recombinant plasmid | 2 weeks | Different carriers available; different tags include His, Trx, GST, SUMO, etc. |
2 | Recombinant expressor testing | 1 week | Different expression bacterial strains available |
3 | Soluble expression testing | 1-2 weeks | Different inducers and induction temperatures available, or a mutant construction based on point mutation of protein structure or deletion mutation |
4 | Expression and purification of small-scale proteins | 1-2 weeks | In case of inclusion body expression, the time and methodology will be adjusted. |
5 | Expression and purification of large-scale proteins | Determined based on the expressed volume | Shake flask or culture fermentor available |
You can choose any of the above experiments, or the combination of related experiments, according to your requirements.
Affinity purification, ion column purification, hydrophobic packing purification, or molecular sieve purification are available for the purification options.
The nature of proteins, as well as the expression system selected, will affect the purity and activity of the final products.