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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 or 
  • 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.