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#422
problem with amonium sulfate precipitation 11 Months, 2 Weeks ago Karma: 0
dear all
I have produced alpha amylase enzyme with Bacillus licheniformis
in a volume of 2 liters . Assay on alpha amylase activity has been done and i am sure that it has amylase activity.
Now i want to concentrate my enzyme with Amonium sulfate precipitation and compare it with ultra filtration ,but in three assays that have been done till now i have nt aquire any precipitate in 85% of saturation and also any pellete .
as i persume i should have at least 1 mililiter precipitant out of my 10-2o ml of my sample but unfortunately i dont have any precipitant .

i am very nervouse cause i should finish my practical work up to two month later . what should i do for this problem . what do you suggest ?

thanks in advance
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#431
Re: problem with amonium sulfate precipitation 10 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 0
hello,

What do you know about your protein? For example, do you know the pI? Can you put your lysate onto an ion exchange column? This should enable you to get rid of lots of other proteins and concentrate your protein.

As for Aparna, have you tried ion exchange at the "wrong" pH? Remember that the calculated pI is only theoretical. Your protein may have charged patches that mean it will act counter-intuitively to what "the texts" say. You could also try mild reverse-phase chromatography.
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#435
Re: problem with amonium sulfate precipitation 10 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 0
You are not getting any precipitate with ammonium sulfate because the overall protein concentration in the culture supernatant is low. I suggest you first bring down the effective volume of your culture supernatant. This can be done in a small batch of 100 ml. Remove 100 ml of the amylase containing supernatant and dialyze against 1 L 25mM Tris buffer containing 10 mM MgCl2 and glycerol at 50% v/v at 4C for 10 h. This will bring down the volume of your filtrate from 100 ml to 34 ml. Subject this dialysate to precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 4C and the process must be carried out for a total time of 48h. You will see a precipitate- it will be light and flaky but the active enzyme will be present in the pellet because amylases are quite stable.


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#439
Re: problem with amonium sulfate precipitation 9 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 0
For best precipitation pH must be lower than protein pI, cause sulphat ion interact with positive charged groups, making protein more compact.
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