Many proteins are expressed as fusion partners with affinity tags, such as the HaloTag® fusion, glutathione-S-transferase (GST) or maltose binding protein (MBP), to selectively bind the proteins using affinity purification resins. While such resins yield high-purity protein quickly, the large affinity tags are undesirable for some downstream applications. Most expression vectors are designed with a specific protein cleavage site between the two fusion partners to remove the affinity tag after purification. ProTEV Protease recognizes a rare amino acid sequence, EXXYXQ, where X is any amino acid, and cleaves after the glutamine residue.

ProTEV Plus functions over a broad pH and temperature range. In a recent study the enzymatic activity of ProTEV Plus in the presence of various compounds (Table 1) commonly found in protein purification protocols were evaluated.

Table 2 lists the compounds tested and the concentrations at which ProTEV Plus shows ≥94% cleavage. The concentration limits provided are general guidelines because we did not test the compound concentrations in small increments. For some of the compounds analyzed, the highest acceptable concentration may be higher than indicated.

For additional details please refer to this article on the Proemga.com Web site.

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Gary Kobs

Strategic Marketing Manager at Promega Corporation

Gary earned his B.S. in Bacteriology, UW-Madison in 1982. From 1982–1986 he served as Research Tech at UW-Madison. From 1986 to the present Gary has been with Promega Corporation serving in many capacities including as the very first editor of Promega Notes. He was also Manager Tech Services and Training, Product Manager Restriction/Modifying Enzymes, Product Manager Protein Analysis, and is now Marketing Manager Protein Analysis.

Latest posts by Gary Kobs (see all)

• Characterizing Compound Binding in Cell-Free Systems - April 17, 2019
• Mutation Analysis Using HaloTag Fusion Proteins - March 11, 2019
• Optimizing Pressure Cycling Sample Preparation for Bottom-Up Proteomics - February 11, 2019