Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2053404 | FEBS Letters | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Esterase from thermophilic bacteria Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius can be produced up to 200 μg/ml by coupled in vitro transcription/translation system derived from Escherichia coli. The synthesized thermostable enzyme can be determined by photometrical and fluorescent assays at least up to 10−8 M concentration or by activity staining in the polyacrylamide gels. Enhanced green fluorescence protein-esterase fusion protein was bound to a matrix with immobilized esterase inhibitor and purified by affinity chromatography. Thus, the esterase is suited as a reporter enzyme to monitor the expression of polypeptides coupled to its N-terminus and simultaneously, as a cleavable tag for polypeptide purification.
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Authors
Dmitry E. Agafonov, Kersten S. Rabe, Michael Grote, Yiwei Huang, Mathias Sprinzl,