Dear ALL; Firstly I'd like to thank folks for the various suggestions to handle the degradation of MBP fusion protein.
According to these suggestions, I have tried shortening the linker between MBP and target protein. We can get decent yield of the full-length protein now. We still have a little question about the expression. Using BL21(De3 ) star cells at 37 degree, we got good soluble expression of the MBP fusion protein. However, the majority of the proteins were existing as soluble aggregates and only a small protion of proteins was purified as monomers. Does anyone have the experience to increase the yield of the monomeric proteins? Thanks a lot, Jerry McCully