Inoculate 2ml of 5ml o/n culture of either p3133 (empty vector pET11a) or p3134 (dnEBNA-1/Soft) in E. coli BL21 LysS per 0.5L LB ampicillin (grow two 0.5L cultures of each)
Incubate ~2hrs @37C 250rpm until OD600 = 0.4-0.6
Induce with 5ml 100mM ITPG per 0.5L culture
Incubate 2-3hrs @37C 250rpm
Spin down 2 flasks of each (1L total) in 500ml GSA centrifuge bottles 5000rpm, 4C, 10min
Decant supernatant, freeze pellet @-20C
Resuspend pellet in TED 0.15M NaCl (2-5ml per gram wet weight of pellet; for bacterial pellet from 1L I used 6ml on 02/2004)
Add 200x lysozyme and 100x proteasome inhibitors to 1x final concentration
Transfer to disposable, sterile tube and incubate on ice 30min (omitted on 02/2004)
Sonicate setting 10, 15-30sec bursts, 6 rounds, incubate on ice ~2min between rounds
Transfer to microfuge tubes; Centrifuge 4C, 10k rpm 30min
Transfer supernatant to fresh tube.
Column Preparation
a. Resuspend matrix as 50% slurry and load closed column
b. Wash twice with 5 bed volumes of TED 0.15M NaCl
c. Open column and drain to form compact 100% slurry
Load sample onto column. Note: all flow rates should be 0.5ml/min
Collect Flow Through (FT), pass FT over column again. Save 50ul of supernatant as FT.
Wash with 25ml TE 0.15M NaCl. Collect this wash and save 50ul as Wash 1.
Wash with 15ml TE 0.5M NaCl, collect in 5ml fractions. Save 50ul of each as Wash 2.1, Wash 2.2, Wash 2.3.
Elute dnEBNA-1/Soft from column with 5-10ml TE 0.7M NaCl 30% propylene glycol, collect in 1ml fractions. Add 5ul of 0.02M DTT to each 1ml fraction. Save 50ul of each fraction as Elution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
Run 2 identical SDS-PAGE gels with all bold samples above, protein size marker, and concentration standards (BSA 0.1ug, 1ug, 10ug) or protein positive for Soft-tag and/or EBNA-1
d. Run one gel as a Coomassie Blue stain for bulk protein levels
e. Run one gel as Western for identification of Soft tag and/or EBNA-1
