Re: [ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag

2013-07-25 Thread Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos
Dear all, I would like to thank everyone for being so kind and sparing their time to respond. Just to summarise from all the responses that I got that may help someone else: MBP on its own is monomeric and tends to 'magically' help pretty much every protein you throw at it to become soluble. In m

Re: [ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag

2013-07-24 Thread Bostjan Kobe
not the views of The University of Queensland. From: Gang Dong mailto:gang.d...@univie.ac.at>> Reply-To: Gang Dong mailto:gang.d...@univie.ac.at>> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:53:27 +0200 To: mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag De

Re: [ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag

2013-07-24 Thread Gang Dong
ent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:07 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag Dear all, I would like to ask if someone has experience with maltose binding protein (MBP) as a tag. My protein fused to MBP seems to form oligomers that I find difficult to prev

[ccp4bb] Maltose binding protein as a tag

2013-07-24 Thread Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos
Dear all, I would like to ask if someone has experience with maltose binding protein (MBP) as a tag. My protein fused to MBP seems to form oligomers that I find difficult to prevent and I was wondering if mbp behaves similar to gst and may also be prone to dimerisation/oligomerisation Many thanks