Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-13 Thread Nadir T. Mrabet
ginal Message - From: "Katherine Sippel" To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:01:10 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC Hi all, I've run into a bit of a protein purification conundrum and wondered if anyone had enc

Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-13 Thread Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra
Hi Katherine, I recommend Zn-IDA Sepharose (Chelating Sepharose Fast Flow, GE Healthcare), which we have been using successfully for more than 20 years, since the early days of IMAC: Skerra et al. (1991) The functional expression of antibody Fv fragments in Escherichia coli: improved vectors a

Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, This is a fairly familiar issue. A hydrophobic protein with thiols often contaminates IMAC columns and this kind of contamination can be difficult to remove completely. In the past some of the methods that worked included trypsin or papain treatment, followed by massive amounts of chelating ag

Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
uot;Katherine Sippel" To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:01:10 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC Hi all, I've run into a bit of a protein purification conundrum and wondered if anyone had encountered a similar situa

[ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Katherine Sippel
Hi all, I've run into a bit of a protein purification conundrum and wondered if anyone had encountered a similar situation. I've exercised all of my google-fu and can't find anything. It's a fairly straightforward setup; His-tagged protein and Talon Co2+ resin, load lysate, wash with 5 mM imidazol