E XPLORING P ROTEINS AND P ROTEOMES
G ENOMES AND P ROTEOMES
O BTAINING THE PROTEIN : CELL LYSIS AND S EPARATION
P ROTEIN P URIFICATION T ECHNIQUES Salting out Dialysis Gel Filtration Chromatography Ion-exchange Chromatography Affinity Chromatography HPLC Gel Electrophoresis Isoelectric Focusing 2D Gel Electrophoresis Ultracentrifugation
S ALTING O UT
D IALYSIS
G EL F ILTRATION C HROMATOGRAPHY
I ON - EXCHANGE C HROMATOGRAPHY
A FFINITY C HROMATOGRAPHY
ELISA
HPLC
G EL E LECTROPHORESIS
I SOELECTRIC F OCUSING
2D G EL E LECTROPHORESIS
U LTRACENTRIFUGATION
S TRUCTURE D ETERMINATION
A MINO A CID S EQUENCING : E DMAN D EGRADATION
B ROAD C LASSIFICATION OF P ROTEASE Serine Proteases A serine residue acts as a nucleophile in the active site, facilitating the reaction Operates via the catalytic triad His, Ser- Asp Cystein Proteases Cys as the nucleophile and activated by a nearby basic aa Papain is an example Aspartate Proteases Two Asp residues cleaves the peptide bond by activating a water molecule Metalloprotease A metallic Zn or Co is involved in the catalytic mechanism
E XAMPLES OF P ROTEASES Trypsin – carboxyl side of Lys and Arg Chymotrypsin – carboxyl side of bulky hydrophobic aa Elastase – carboxyl side of small hydrophobic aa Clostripain – carboxyl side of Arg Thrombin – serine protease with specific cleavage site: Leu-Val-Pro-Arg—Gly-Ser Carboxypeptidase A – amino side of C terminal residues of aromatic or aliphatic aa An exopeptidase
M ASS S PECTROMETRY
MALDI-TOF MS
E LECTROSPRAY I ONIZATION
X- RAY C RYSTALLOGRAPHY
X- RAY D IFFRACTION P ATTERN OF M EVALONATE K INASE
NMR S PECTROSCOPY