Attachment of an NMR-invisible solubility enhancement tag using a sortase-mediated protein ligation method
Kobashigawa, Y., Kumeta, H., Ogura, K., Inagaki, F.(2009) J Biomol NMR 43: 145-150
- PubMed: 19140010 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-008-9296-5
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2KBT - PubMed Abstract: 
Sample solubility is essential for structural studies of proteins by solution NMR. Attachment of a solubility enhancement tag, such as GB1, MBP and thioredoxin, to a target protein has been used for this purpose. However, signal overlap of the tag with the target protein often made the spectral analysis difficult. Here we report a sortase-mediated protein ligation method to eliminate NMR signals arising from the tag by preparing the isotopically labeled target protein attached with the non-labeled GB1 tag at the C-terminus.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan.