yes - really, tris should be the buffer of last resort rather than the
standard. its only general advantages would seem to be that it's cheap and not
very toxic.
j
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Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Mark
Wilson
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 22:12
An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] protein precipitation reg
I heartily concur with Craig. Tris can be a dangerous buffer for many reasons,
including those listed below. In addition, as a primary amine, it can
complicate work with metalloproteins and has moderate nucleophilicity. There
is almost always a better buffer choice than Tris.
Best regards,
Mark
Mark A. Wilson
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Department of Biochemistry/Redox Biology Center University of Nebraska
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On 3/29/17 2:53 PM, "CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of CRAIG A BINGMAN"
wrote:
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>There are almost always better choices than Tris buffer.
>
>
>Mo Cleland used to call it “Trash” buffer. He is no longer with us,
>but today I will happily carry that flag in his honor.
>
>
>Tris may show up in your crystal structure, especially at carbohydrate
>binding sites.
>Tris may be a surprisingly strong competitive inhibitor in your enzyme
>assays, especially as above.
>Tris has an absolutely miserably bad change in pKa vs. temperature. It
>is larger than -0.03 pKa/dT(C). It can be a catastrophically bad
>choice for flash-freezing protein aliquots.
>
>
>If you taken the time and incurred the expense of preparing a
>macromolecular sample for crystallization studies, and you are worried
>about the price difference between Tris and HEPES, in my opinion you
>are absolutely worried about the wrong things.
>
>
>Why are people substantially concerned about the buffering capacity of
>a buffer for final sample preparation? You have a purified protein,
>presumably without substrate present. Exactly what do you think is
>generating or absorbing hydrogen ions in that solution? Oxidation of
>reducing agent should be about the only thing that is taxing the
>buffer. From the example below, oxidation of 5 mM BME will put some
>pressure on the buffer, but unfortunately Tris accelerates the
>oxidation of BME relative, to, say, HEPES. And surely you aren’t just
>letting the protein sit and oxidize in the refrigerator? Oh you might
>be since when you tried to snap freeze it in Tris, it turned into
>cooked egg white because the pH went to over 10 before it vitrified.
>(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031942200801429)
>
>
>Isn’t the whole point to use a small amount of buffer so you can easily
>push the pH around in crystallization screens? (At which point the
>sample is usually in 100+ mM buffer.)
>
>
>On Mar 29, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Hughes, Jon
> wrote:
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>...it's just a wonderful tradition! there's an interesting description
>of the history of tris in maniatis
>cheers
>jon
>
>Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von
>David Briggs
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 17:53
>An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitation reg
>
>It doesn't cost as much as HEPES, iirc.
>On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, 16:36 Keller, Jacob,
>wrote:
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>
>A bit off topic, but I’ve always wondered how TRIS got so popular what
>with it’s pKa of 8.3—does anyone know?
>
>JPK
>
>From: CCP4
> bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Roger
>Rowlett
>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 11:10 AM
>To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitation reg
>
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>
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>
>What are you dialyzing against? Your storage solution should typically
>be buffered away from the pI and contain at least a small amount of
>kosmotropic salt, e.g. NaCl. Some proteins will require additional
>stabilizing/solubilizing agents such as glycerol or reducing agents.
>FYI, Tris-Cl, pH 7.5 has very little buffer capacity (about 15% of the
>total concentration in the acid direction). We typically use Tris-Cl pH
>8.0, which is closer to the Tris pKa and has good buffer capacity for
>both acid and base. For pH 7.5 we would typically use HEPES as the
>storage buffer.
>
>___
>Roger S. Rowlett
>Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor
>Department of Chemistry
>Colgate University
>13 Oak Drive