Nature Methods
- 5, 135 - 146 (2008)
Published online: 30 January 2008; Corrected online: 04 March 2008 | doi:10.1038/nmeth.f.202
There is an Addendum (April 2008) associated with this Review.
Protein production and purificationStructural Genomics Consortium1,2,3, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques4, Berkeley Structural Genomics Center5, China Structural Genomics Consortium6,7, Integrated Center for Structure and Function Innovation8, Israel Structural Proteomics Center9, Joint Center for Structural Genomics10,11, Midwest Center for Structural Genomics12, New York Structural GenomiX Research Center for Structural Genomics13,14,15,16,17, Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium18,19, Oxford Protein Production Facility20, Protein Sample Production Facility, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine21, RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative22 & SPINE2-Complexes23,251
Karolinska Institutet, Schéeles väg 2, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. 2
University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK. 3
University of Toronto, 100 College St., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, Canada. 4
Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Case 932, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France. 5
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, 351A Donner Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. 6
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. 7
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China. 8
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop M888, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87507, USA. 9
Weizmann Institute of Science, 2 Herzel Street, Rehovot 76100, Israel. 10
The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, California 92037, USA. 11
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, 10675 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California, 92121, USA. 12
Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA. 13
SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10505 Roselle Street, San Diego, California 92121, USA. 14
Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. 15
Biology Department, 463, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA. 16
Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44016, USA. 17
Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94143, USA. 18
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. 19
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 701 Fairchild Building, MC 2451, New York, New York 10027, USA. 20
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX37BN, UK. 21
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany, 22
Protein Research Group, Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama Institute, RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan. 23
Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX37BN, UK. 24
Present addresses: Structural Biology, Helmoltz Center for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany (K.B.), and Department of Biology, and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 1009 Sliver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA (K.C.G.). 25
A complete list of authors appears at the end of this paper.
Correspondence should be addressed to Aled Edwards aled.edwards@utoronto.ca NOTE: In the version of this Review initially published, an author (B. Martin Hallberg) was left off of the author list. This information has been
added to the HTML and PDF versions of the Review.In selecting a method to produce a recombinant protein, a researcher is faced with a bewildering array of choices as to where to start. To facilitate decision-making, we describe a consensus 'what to try first' strategy based on our collective analysis of the expression and purification of over 10,000 different proteins. This review presents methods that could be applied at the outset of any project, a prioritized list of alternate strategies and a list of pitfalls that trip many new investigators.
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