Resuspend 1L worth of bacterial pellet in 30ml Low Buffer
Take 30ul pre-sonication sample
Sonicate 3 pulses at 80% power with 7th floor sonicator, 2 min on ice between pulses (NOTE: do not let sonicator tip touch side of tube to reduce frothing)
Take 30ul crude sonicated sample
Dispense into 1.5 ml eppendorf tubes, spin 14k rpm, 4oC, 30 min
Combine soluble fractions into 1 tube
Take 30ul soluble fraction as post-sonication soluble sample
Test solubility of target protein by SDS-PAGE/Coomassie Blue Stain
Add 10ul 4x Sample Buffer and 2ul ?-Mercaptoethanol to each 30ul sample
Add an equal volume of 4x Sample Buffer to one insoluble pellet, add
?-Mercaptoethanol to a final concentration of 5%.
Load 14ul (equals 10ul of fraction) on an appropriate concentration SDS-PAGE gel, electrophorese to separate bands well
Stain with Coomassie Blue for 30 min @ RT with rocking, destain with shreds of brown paper towel to aid in removal of dye from gel
