Name:

Tm pH7.2

Category:

Stability/Folding

Property:

Melting Temperature (Tm)

Units:

°C (Celsius)

Measurement Technique:

Circular Dichroism (CD)

Buffers:

50 mM phosphate

Temperature:

pH:

7.2

Protein Concentration:

50 μM

Wavelength:

Ionic Strength:

Details:

Purification and circular dichroism of mutant proteins
Protein variants were generated by primers that encoded specific amino acid substitutions into the synthetic β1 gene on a pET11a∆ vector, and protein was expressed as described previously [5]. Protein purification was achieved by ion-exchange chromatography on Q-Sepharose [5] and followed by gel-filtration chromatography on Hi-Load Superdex 75 (Pharmacia) in 50 mM sodium acetate buffer, pH 5.2, the buffer in which all CD spectra were acquired, except for the charged mutants. The charged mutants were studied at pH 7.2 in 50 mM phosphate buffer. Far-UV CD spectra were acquired from 20 μM protein samples in a cuvette of 0.1 cm path length. We used 50 μM protein samples in a 0.2 cm path length cuvette for thermal denaturation studies sampling at 1°C increments with a 2 min equilibration and a 1 min averaging time on an Aviv 62DS CD spectrometer (Aviv Instruments).