2.1.15: Protein Production — Read

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2.1.15.1: Introduction
Recombinant DNA technology has many uses in basic scientific research to better understand the nature of living things. As a tool, recombinant DNA technology can be used to express proteins towards medical applications. Prior to biotechnology, type I diabetes (insulin-dependent) was treated by injection of insulin isolated from the pancreas of pigs. With the ability to express human proteins inside bacteria, yeast, and other cells, sacrificing pigs for porcine insulin is no longer necessary.
2.1.15.2: Protein Purification (Activity)
This exercise seeks to purify Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) or Blue Fluorescent Protein (BFP) from the bacterial lysate. These proteins have a specific size of 238 amino acids and are 40,000 daltons (40kD). Based on their specific size, they will have a specific rate of migration through the size-exclusion resin. Remember that the bacterial lysate is full of additional proteins that are not your protein of interest that we are attempting to isolate.

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