An improved fluorescent tag and its nanobodies for membrane protein expression, stability assay, and purification

In this work, the authors demonstrate that a coral thermostable GFP (TGP) is an improved tag compared to conventional GFPs. In addition to reporting melting point stability at temperatures near 90 °C, its fusion also helps increase expression levels of test membrane proteins. They further generated...

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Main Authors: Hongmin Cai, Hebang Yao, Tingting Li, Cedric A. J. Hutter, Yanfang Li, Yannan Tang, Markus A. Seeger, Dianfan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-12-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01478-z
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Summary:In this work, the authors demonstrate that a coral thermostable GFP (TGP) is an improved tag compared to conventional GFPs. In addition to reporting melting point stability at temperatures near 90 °C, its fusion also helps increase expression levels of test membrane proteins. They further generated synthetic nanobodies against TGP to facilitate purification.
ISSN:2399-3642