Authors: Nicolas Guthertz Julia Klopp Aurélie Winterhalter César Fernández Alvar D Gossert
Publish Date: 2015/04/19
Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-177
Abstract
Autoinducing media for protein expression offer many advantages like robust reproducibility high yields of soluble protein and much reduced workload Here an autoinducing medium for uniform isotope labelling of proteins with 15N 13C and/or 2H in E coli is presented So far autoinducing media have not found widespread application in the NMR field because of the prohibitively high cost of labeled lactose which is an essential ingredient of such media Here we propose using lactose that is only selectively labeled on the glucose moiety It can be synthesized from inexpensive and readily available substrates labeled glucose and unlabeled activated galactose With this approach uniformly isotope labeled proteins were expressed in unattended autoinducing cultures with incorporation of 13C 15N of 966 and 2H 15N of 988 With the present protocol the NMR community could profit from the many advantages that autoinducing media offer
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