Guide to Protein Purification: Volume 463

1. Why Purify Enzymes?

Section I: Developing Purification Procedures
2. Strategies and Considerations for Protein Purifications
3. Use of Bioinformatics in Planning a Protein Purification
4. Preparing A Purification Summary Table

Section II: General Methods for Handling Proteins and Enzymes
5. Setting Up A Laboratory
6. Buffers: Principle and Practice
7. Measurement of Enzyme Activity
8. Quantitation of Protein
9. Concentration of Proteins and Removal of Solutes
10. Maintaining Protein Stability

Section III: Recombinant Protein Expression and Purification
11. Selecting an Appropriate Method for Expressing a Recombinant Protein
12. Bacterial Systems for Production of Heterologous Proteins
13. Expression in the Yeast Pichia Pastoris
14. Baculovirus-Insect Cell Expression Systems
15. Recombinant Protein Production By Transient Gene Transfer Into Mammalian Cells
16. Tagging For Protein Expression
17. Refolding of Solubilized Inclusion Body Proteins

Section IV: Preparation of Extracts and Subcellular Fractionation
18. Advances In Preparation of Biological Extracts for Protein Purification
19. Isolation of Subcellular Organelles and Structures

Section V: Purification Procedures: Bulk Methods
20. Protein Precipitation Techniques
21. Affi-Gel Blue for Nucleic Acid Removal and Early Enrichment of Nucleotide Binding Protein

Section VI: Purification Procedures: Chromatographic Methods
22. Ion Exchange Chromatography
23. Gel Filtration
24. Protein Chromatography on Hydroxyapatite Columns
25. Theory and Use of Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography in Protein Purification Applications

Section VII: Purification Procedures: Affininty Methods
26. Affinity Chromatography: General Methods
27. Immobilized-Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC)
28. Identification, Production, and Use of Polyol-Responsive Monoclonal Antibodies for Immunoaffinity Chromatography

Section VIII: Purification Procedures: Electrophoretic Methods
29. One-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis
30. Protein Analysis Using High-Resolution Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Focusing
31. Protein Gel Staining Methods: An Introduction And Overview
32. Elution of Proteins From Gels
33. Immunodetection By Protein Blotting Performing and Optimizing Western Blots With An Emphasis on Chemiluminescent Detection

Section IX: Purification Procedures: Membrane Proteins And Glycoproteins
34. Detergents: An Overview
35. Purification of Membrane Proteins
36. Purification of Recombinant G-Protein-Coupled Receptors
37. Cell-Free Translation Of Integral Membrane Proteins Into Unilamelar Liposomes

Section X: Characterization of Purified Proteins
38. Determination of Protein Purity
39. Determination of Size, Molecular Weight, and Presence of Subunits
40. Identification and Quantification of Protein Posttranslational Modifications
41. Parallel Methods For Expression And Purification
42. Techniques To Isolate O2-Sensitive Proteins: [4Fe-4S]-FNR As An Example
43. Rethinking Your Purification Procedure
44. Important But Little Known (Or Forgotten) Artifacts in Protein Biochemistry