VINCULIN full length, expression and purification

doi:10.1038/nprot.2009.45

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VINCULIN full length, expression and purification

https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2009.45

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Expression and purification of vinculin from bacterial culture.

Starter Culture and Induction

Pick a single colony (or from glycerol stock) into 25 ml TB + salts + 0.4% glucose + antibiotic
Grow until mid-log phase (OD600 ~ 0.4-0.5), 37 °C
Store at 4 °C O/N
Inoculate 2x 500 ml TB + salts + 0.4% glucose + antibiotic with 10 ml @ of starter culture
Grow to OD600 = 0.4-0.6
Induce with 1mM IPTG, 37 °C, 3 hours
Pellet cells and resuspend in 20 ml of lysis buffer (300 mM NaCl, 10 mM Imidazole, 20 mM Tris pH 8)
Quick freeze in Liquid Nitrogen. Store at -80 °C until needed

Purification

Thaw Pellet(s) in room temperature water
Add 2.5 ml 10 mg/ml lysozyme (10 mg/ml lysozyme in H₂O stored at –20 °C) and 0.25 ml 100 mM PMSF (dissolve 100mM PMSF in EtOH and store at –20 °C) add βME to 5mM final to each pellet.
Sonicate, large probe, 3-5 minutes, 1 second on 2 seconds off, on ice
Spin 18 K, 1 HR in SS-34
Wash HiTrap Chelating HP 5ml column (Amersham 17-0409-03) with 10 ml 6 M GuHCl (skip if a new column)
Wash column with 50 ml dH₂O
Load column with 20 ml of 0.1 M NiCl₂
Wash column with 50 ml dH₂O
Wash column with 25 ml (5 column volumes) 10 mM Imadazole wash buffer (10 mM Imadazole, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8)
Load sample containing 10 mM Imadazole, 300 mM NaCl, 20 mM TRIS pH 8, collect flow through. Check on gel.
Wash column with 25 ml 10 mM Imadazole buffer (10 mM Imadazole, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8). Collect wash to check on gel.
Wash column with 25 ml 25 mM Imadazole buffer (25 mM Imadazole, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8). Collect wash to check on gel.
Wash column with 25 ml 75 mM Imadazole buffer (75 mM Imadazole, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8). Collect wash to check on gel.
Elute sample with 12 ml 250 mM Imadazole buffer (250 mM Imadazole, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8). Check on gel
Strip column with 10 ml EDTA strip buffer (50 mM EDTA, 500 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8). Collect strip to check on gel.
Rinse column with 50 ml dH₂O, store at 4 °C
Dialyze eluted, 12 ml sample against Buffer A (150 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8, 5 mM EDTA, 5 mM βME) overnight at 4 °C.
Dialyze 3 or more hours against Buffer B (150 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris pH 8, 5 mM βME).
Add 4 aliquots Thrombin (5 Units), 4 °C Overnight
Add Imidazole to a final concentration of 250mM, NaCl to a final of 500mM.
Repeat Nickel column Steps 5-18 (cleaved protein should be in the FT and Wash 1).
Add another 2 aliquots of thrombin (2.5 U) to elution, RT overnight.
Repeat Step 21.
Concentrate to appropriate concentration and run over S-200 column.

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