Abstract
His-tagging is the most widespread and versatile strategy used to purify recombinant proteins for biochemical and structural studies. Recombinant DNA methods are first used to engineer the addition of a short tract of poly-histidine tag (His-tag) to the N-terminus or C-terminus of a target protein. The His-tag is then exploited to enable purification of the “tagged” protein by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). In this chapter, we describe efficient procedures for the isolation of highly purified His-tagged target proteins from an Escherichia coli host using IMAC in a bind-wash-elute strategy that can be performed under both native and denaturing conditions.
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Loughran, S.T., Bree, R.T., Walls, D. (2023). Poly-Histidine-Tagged Protein Purification Using Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC). In: Loughran, S.T., Milne, J.J. (eds) Protein Chromatography. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2699. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3362-5_11
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