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ArticleJournal of biomolecular NMR2016

Optimization of protein samples for NMR using thermal shift assays.

Sandra Kozak, Lukas Lercher, Megha N Karanth, Rob Meijers, Teresa Carlomagno, Stephane Boivin

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Article in Journal of biomolecular NMR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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6 authors.

Sandra KozakSPC Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg Outstation, Notkestrasse 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany.
Lukas LercherSCB Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
Megha N KaranthSCB Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
Rob MeijersSPC Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg Outstation, Notkestrasse 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany.
Teresa CarlomagnoSCB Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany. teresa.carlomagno@oci.uni-hannover.de.
Stephane BoivinSPC Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg Outstation, Notkestrasse 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany. sboivin77@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1460-326X

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Abstract

Maintaining a stable fold for recombinant proteins is challenging, especially when working with highly purified and concentrated samples at temperatures >20 °C. Therefore, it is worthwhile to screen for different buffer components that can stabilize protein samples. Thermal shift assays or ThermoFluor(®) provide a high-throughput screening method to assess the thermal stability of a sample under several conditions simultaneously. Here, we describe a thermal shift assay that is designed to optimize conditions for nuclear magnetic resonance studies, which typically require stable samples at high concentration and ambient (or higher) temperature. We demonstrate that for two challenging proteins, the multicomponent screen helped to identify ingredients that increased protein stability, leading to clear improvements in the quality of the spectra. Thermal shift assays provide an economic and time-efficient method to find optimal conditions for NMR structural studies.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularFluorometryMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyProteinsProtein StabilityTemperatureProteinsDifferential scanning fluorimetryNuclear magnetic resonanceProtein thermal stabilitySample optimizationThermal shift assayThermoFluor

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PMID26984476
PMCPMC4869703

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