I am interested in purifying proteins with 1 or 2 disulphide bonds, and have been using enterokinase to cleave off N-terminal tags but we have had issues with poor cleavage and want to try TEV cleavage instead. However TEV protease is usually kept in a high amount of DTT and I am concerned about reducing the disulphide bonds in my purified proteins. I have used TEV protease before with 0.25mM TCEP and it worked well. Is there a way to use TEV with very little or no reducing agent? Perhaps by optimising conditions such as adding glycerol? We were thinking of buying in commercial TEV protease so any advice on that is also welcomed (is there any merit, except cost, to making it ourselves?)
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