Comparative Physiology @ Guelph
Charles TnT Pellet Method
- Grow up an 8 Liter pellet, then centrifuge down to a single pellet in one bottle
- Bring volume up to 250ml with 10mM Tris pH 7.4 and mix well
- Centrifuge and save pellet, discard super.
- Bring volume up to 250ml with 50mM Tris pH 7.4, 0.1% TritonX100, 1mM PMSF
- Mix well, you may need to use a Polytron if it is very thick
- Transfer to a glass beaker and while stirring add drop by drop:
- 25mg freshly made lysozyme (have it at 10mg/ml in water=2.5ml solution)
- Keep stirring until it gets sticky, then continue stirring for 3-4 hours at room temp orÂ
- overnight in the cold room at 4°
- Sonicate on #10 setting in multiple 2 minute bursts on ice until it gets less sticky
- Centrifuge at 14,000 for 20-30 minutes, save super and discard pellet
- Measure volume of super and add 15.4g/100ml Ammonium Sulfate (30%)
- Stir to dissolve and check pH, do not let pH drop below 7.0 (pH 7.5 is ideal)
- Centrifuge at 14,000 for 20 minutes and save super and discard pellet
- Measure volume of super and add 22.7g/100ml Ammonium Sulfate (50%)
- Centrifuge at 14,000 for 20 minutes, save pellet and discard super this time
- Dissolve pellet in 25-30ml CM buffer
- Dialyze this in 1 Liter CM buffer, changing 2-3 times
- Run over a 40 gram CM column at 1ml/minute
CM Buffer
- 6M Urea
- 25mM MES
- 1mM EGTA
- 15mM BME
- pH 6
Elute using 0-0.3 M NaCl (in CM Buffer). Eluted at around 0.2 M NaCl.