Hi Ailong,
Use a high salt concentration in your lysis buffer (0.5-1 M NaCl). You
could also try to add some imidazole (e.g. 30 mM). This removes a lot of
unspecific binding to the Ni-column. After applying the lysate I usually
wash with 60 mM imidazole for at least 20 CV and then I elute with
300 mM imidazole. Another option is to try different resins (Ni-NTA vs
Ni-Sepharose)
Hope this helps,
christian
Ailong Ke wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>
> We are trying to purify an N-terminal His6-tagged protein from E. coli,
> and the prep was contaminated with the E coli
> Glucosamine-fructose-6-phosphate aminotransferase, which co-purifies
> with my protein of interest in subsequent ion-exchange and sizing
> columns. This protein appears to be a common contamination in the Ni-NTA
> purifications. Does anyone have tricks to get rid of it? Thanks.
>
> Ailong
>
>
>
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