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Public workspacePurification of FKBP8-GST

  • 1Sascha Martens lab, University of Vienna, Max Perutz Labs - Vienna
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Protocol CitationElias Adriaenssens 2024. Purification of FKBP8-GST. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjne3pgk5/v1
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: August 21, 2024
Last Modified: August 29, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 106139
Keywords: ASAPCRN
Funders Acknowledgement:
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Grant ID: ASAP-000350
Marie Skłodowska-Curie MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship
Grant ID: 101062916
Abstract
This protocol describes the purification and analysis of FKBP8-GST by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie staining.
Materials
Lysis buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl300 mM
Triton X-1001%
Glycerol5%
MgCl22 mM
DTT1 mM
β-mercaptoethanol2 mM
cOmplete EDTA-free protease inhibitors (Roche)
CIP protease inhibitor (Sigma)
DNase (Sigma)
Wash Buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl300 mM
DTT1 mM
Salt wash Buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl700 mM
DTT1 mM
SEC Buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.425 mM
NaCl300 mM
DTT1 mM 
  • ReagentRosetta™(DE3)pLysS Competent Cells - NovagenMerckCatalog #70956-4
  • pET-Duet encoding FKBP8 (1-391aa)-thrombin-GST (available from Addgene)

Purification procedure
Purification procedure
1d 2h 45m 30s
1d 2h 45m 30s
To purify FKBP8-GST, fuse the cytosol-exposed domain of FKBP8 (1-391aa) to a C-terminal GST-tag and clone into a pET-DUET1 vector.

After the transformation of the pET-DUET1 vector encoding FKBP8-GST in E.coli Rosetta pLysS cells (Novagen Cat# 70956-4), grow cells in 2x Tryptone Yeast extract (TY) medium at Temperature37 °C until an OD600 of 0.4 and then continue at Temperature18 °C .

Once the cells reach an OD600 of 0.8, induce the protein expression with Concentration100 micromolar (µM) isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) for Duration16:00:00 at Temperature18 °C .

16h
Collect the cells by centrifugation and resuspend in lysis buffer.
Lysis buffer:

AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl300 mM
Triton X-1001%
Glycerol5%
MgCl22 mM 
DTT1 mM 
β-mercaptoethanol2 mM 
cOmplete EDTA-free protease inhibitors (Roche)
CIP protease inhibitor (Sigma)
DNase (Sigma)
Sonicate the cell lysates twice for Duration00:00:30 and clear by centrifugation at Centrifigation18000 rpm, 4°C, 00:45:00 in a SORVAL RC6+ centrifuge with an F21S-8x50Y rotor (Thermo Scientific).

  • Collect the supernatant and incubate with pre-equilibrated Glutathione Sepharose 4B beads (GE Healthcare) for Duration02:00:00 at Temperature4 °C with gentle shaking to bind FKBP8-GST.

2h 45m 30s
Incubation
Centrifigation
Centrifuge the samples to pellet the beads and remove the unbound lysate. Then wash the beads twice with wash buffer, once with high salt wash buffer, and two more times with wash buffer.

Wash Buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl300 mM
DTT1 mM 
Salt wash Buffer:

AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl700 mM
DTT1 mM 
Centrifigation
Wash
Incubate the beads DurationOvernight with Amount4 mL of Concentration50 millimolar (mM) reduced glutathione dissolved in wash buffer at Temperature4 °C , to elute FKBP8-GST from the beads.

Wash Buffer:
AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.450 mM
NaCl300 mM
DTT1 mM
8h
Incubation
Overnight
To collect the supernatant, collect the beads by centrifugation. Wash the beads twice with Amount4 mL of wash buffer, and collect the supernatant.
Wash
Pool the supernatant fractions, filter through a 0.45 µm syringe filter, concentrated with 30 kDa cut-off Amicon filter (Merck Millipore), and load onto a pre-equilibrated Superdex 200 Increase 10/300 GL column (Cytiva).

Elute the proteins with SEC buffer.

SEC Buffer:

AB
Tris-HCl pH 7.425 mM
NaCl300 mM
DTT1 mM 
Analyze the fractions by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie staining. Pool the fractions containing purified FKBP8-GST.

Analyze
After concentrating the purified protein, aliquot the protein and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen.

Store proteins at Temperature-80 °C .