GST fusion protein not cleaved by thrombin

[Ian A. York]

In article <3nou33$3bv at news.cuny.edu> Rabino at GENECTR.HUNTER.CUNY.EDU (Mauro) writes:

>glutathione beads my fusion protein has the right M.W.,
>autophosphylation activity but I can't cleave it by thrombin at all. I

This is probably obvious, but have you sequenced to make sure the 
thrombin cleavage site is intact and wasn't lost, or mutated, in the cloning 
process somewhere?  I haven't worked with a wide variety of GST fusions, 
but thrombin has always cleaved for me, with no need for any juggling.

Ian

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