blueTEV Cleavage Kit

• Expression Host: E. coli
• Formulation: 
  blueTEV: 50 mM Tris, 150 mM NaCl, 0.5 mM EDTA, 5% Trehalose; pH 8.0
  Cleavage and tag control protein: PBS; pH 7.4
  
• Format: Lyophilized, stored at -80 °C preferred (-20° C possible) and shipped at ambient temperature
  
• Purity: > 85% as determined by SDS-PAGE
• Activity blueTEV: ≥ 20 Units/µl (determined by cleavage of control protein)
  ≥ 0.25 µmol/min/mg (determined by cleavage of labeled peptide (Fluorometric assay), TEV Protease Activity Kit (Abcam))
• Unit definition blueTEV: One unit of blueTEV cleaves > 85 % of 3 µg of a fusion protein in 1 hour at room temperature. Cleavage overnight increases cleavage efficiency to > 99 %. It is recommended to optimize cleavage conditions for each protein by varying the amount of blueTEV, reaction time, or temperature.

blueTEV represents the catalytic domain of the nuclear inclusion a (NIa) protein with a molecular weight of 27 kDa encoded by the plant virus Tobacco Etch Virus. "blue" indicates fusion of the protease to blue fluorescent protein (BFP), which leads to increased stability and solubility of TEV protease. Moreover, blueTEV has been optimized by site directed mutagenesis to prevent autocatalytic cleavage. blueTEV is a highly site-specific cysteine protease that recognizes the amino acid sequence Glu-Asn-Leu-Tyr-Phe-Gln-(Gly/Ser) [ENLYFQ(G/S)] and cleaves between the residues Gln and Gly/Ser. The most commonly used recognition sequence is ENLYFQG. In biotechnology, blueTEV is a versatile enzyme to remove affinity tags from recombinant proteins with high specificity and activity over a wide range of pH, ionic strength and temperatures between 4 °C and 30 °C. The optimal temperature for cleavage is 30 °C. It is recommended to improve cleavage efficiency for each fusion protein by varying the amount of recombinant blueTEV, reaction time, or incubation temperature. The great advantage of blueTEV is its facile removal after cleavage reaction by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) since it is equipped with a His-tag. Furthermore, the removal of blueTEV can be monitored instantly by detection of fluorescence in solution - this easy, fast and sensitive method omits time-consuming SDS-PAGE or Western blot analysis.

The Cleavage and tag control protein is a versatile protein consisting of various cleavage sites for proteases including TEV, Enterokinase, Thrombin, Factor Xa and PreCission. Protease cleavage results in generation of two or three fragments that have significantly reduced molecular weights, which are as follows:
- TEV cleavage: 42.8 kDa and 47.7 kDa
- Enterokinase: 43.5 kDa, 20.1 kDa and 26.9 kDa
- Thrombin: 43.9 kDa and 46.6 kDa
- Factor Xa: 44.3 kDa and 46.2 kDa
- PreCission: 45.3 kDa and 45.3 kDa
Moreover, the 90.5 kDa fusion protein is equipped with multiple tags such as Twin-Strep-, HA-, FLAG-, and His-tag, for instance, that may serve as positive control performing specific Western blot analyses or any functional assay. Since the protein is fused to GFP, it is additionally applicable as fluorescence control. Thus, the cleavage and tag control protein provides an excellent tool to monitor protease cleavage reactions and specific Western blot analyses as well as fluorescence experiments.

Additional Information blueTEV

SDS-PAGE/Coll. Coomassie	Histogram of marked lane in gel picture
Test Cleavage	Description of Test Cleavage

Additional Information Cleavage and tag control protein

SDS-PAGE/Coll. Coomassie	Histogram of marked lane in gel picture

Test Cleavage	Description of Test Cleavage
Test Cleavage	Description for Test Cleavage

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