Journal
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 6, Pages 2838-2848Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12010-014-0733-5
Keywords
Microtubule affinity-regulating kinase; Microtubule dynamics; Alzheimer's disease; Cloning; Protein expression and purification; Refolding
Funding
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Department of Science and Technology
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Microtubule-associated protein/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 4 (MARK4) is a member of the family Ser/Thr kinase and involved in numerous biological functions including microtubule bundle formation, nervous system development, positive regulation of programmed cell death, cell cycle control, cell polarity determination, cell shape alterations, cell division etc. For various biophysical and structural studies, we need this protein in adequate quantity. In this paper, we report a novel cloning strategy for MARK4. We have cloned MARK4 catalytic domain including 59 N-terminal extra residues with unknown function and catalytic domain alone in PQE30 vector. The recombinant MARK4 was expressed in the inclusion bodies in M15 cells. The inclusion bodies were solubilized effectively with 1.5 % N-lauroylsarcosine in alkaline buffer and subsequently purified using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography in a single step with high purity and good concentration. Purity of protein was checked on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and identified by using mass spectrometry immunoblotting. Refolding of the recombinant protein was validated by ATPase assay. Our purification procedure is quick, simple and produces adequate quantity of proteins with high purity in a limited step.
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