title: Isolation of chimaeric forms of elongation factor EF-Tu by affinity chromatography.
abstract: Six different recombinant chimaeric forms of a three-domain protein, proteosynthetic elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), composed of domains of EF-Tu of mesophilic (Escherichia coli) and thermophilic (Bacillus stearothermophilus) origin as well as free N-terminal domains of EF-Tu, and the whole recombinant EF-Tus of both organisms were prepared and isolated by the GST (glutathione S-transferase) fusion technology. Several modifications in the standard isolation and purification procedures are described that proved necessary to obtain the proteins in a purified and undegraded form.
authors.affiliation: Department of Protein Biosynthesis, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
authors.forename: Hana
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tomincová
authors.forename: Libor
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krásný
authors.forename: Jirí
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jonák
mesh_terms: D002846:Chromatography, Affinity / Q000379:methods*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D010444:Peptide Elongation Factor Tu / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D010444:Peptide Elongation Factor Tu