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ArticleBiotechnology journal2011

Fast and easy protocol for the purification of recombinant S-layer protein for synthetic biology applications.

Julie E Norville, Deborah F Kelly, Thomas F Knight, Angela M Belcher, Thomas Walz

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Article in Biotechnology journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Julie E NorvilleSynthetic Biology Working Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. norville@csail.mit.edu
Deborah F Kelly
Thomas F Knight
Angela M Belcher
Thomas Walz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USCarilion Clinic · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Single particle reconstructionP01GM062580 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WALZ, THOMAS · 2001 to 2016
$23.7M
ELECTRON MICROSCOPE: PROTEIN TRANSLOCATIONS10RR019929 · NCRR · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI HARRISON, STEPHEN COPLAN · 2005 to 2005
$1.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCRR NIH HHS S10 RR019929NIGMS NIH HHS GM52580NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM062580
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A goal of synthetic biology is to make biological systems easier to engineer. One of the aims is to design, with nanometer-scale precision, biomaterials with well-defined properties. The surface-layer protein SbpA forms 2D arrays naturally on the cell surface of Lysinibacillus sphaericus, but also as the purified protein in solution upon the addition of divalent cations. The high propensity of SbpA to form crystalline arrays, which can be simply controlled by divalent cations, and the possibility to genetically alter the protein, make SbpA an attractive molecule for synthetic biology. To be a useful tool, however, it is important that a simple protocol can be used to produce recombinant wild-type and modified SbpA in large quantities and in a biologically active form. The present study addresses this requirement by introducing a mild and non-denaturing purification protocol to produce milligram quantities of recombinant, active SbpA.

Indexed as

Synthetic BiologyBacillaceaeBlotting, WesternCloning, MolecularCrystallizationElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelEscherichia coliMembrane GlycoproteinsNegative StainingRecombinant ProteinsMembrane GlycoproteinsRecombinant ProteinsS-layer proteins

Identifiers

PMID21681963
PMCPMC4374430
OpenAlexW2077011146

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