Hi Anamika,
Proteins with high sequence identity can behave very differently when expressed in bacteria. Sumo (or other tags) may or may not help. If it does, you can
express your SH2 with a tag and remove the tag after purification if the tag is a problem for functional studies. The vectors described
in this article
may work for you if you cannot figure out why you get inconsistent expression.
YZ.
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Hi,
Is anyone has worked with STAT1 proteins?
I have cloned the SH2 domain of STAT1 protein into pet28a vector but there was no expression so far or rather say inconsistent expression. Sometimes the expression was in inclusion bodies. I have tried different methods to pull out the
protein from inclusion bodies using urea, guanidium chloride tween20 but none of them worked well. The yield was very low (very faint band on SDS-PAGE ) from 3-liter culture. I changed the host cells from BL21 to Rosetta DE3 cells but no success so far.
We thought to use some other vector system like with SUMO tag but did not proceed because the aim of the project to design inhibitor and tag will interfere.
Please suggest me something so that I can complete my project in lesser time.
Looking forward to valuable suggestions.
Thanks
Anamika