Articles by Dattananda Chelur - BioPharm International

Articles by Dattananda Chelur

Fusion Tags for Protein Expression and Purification

Fusion tags can improve the yield and solubility of many recombinant proteins. Of course, no single tag or cleavage method will answer every need.
Jun 2, 2008
By: Dattananda Chelur, Onur Unal, Marc Scholtyssek, James Strickler

Gene fusion tags can improve the yield and solubility of many recombinant proteins. This article discusses the most popular fusion tags and the proteases used to remove them, with special reference to recently introduced technologies.