Size-exclusion chromatography was carried out at 20 °C on a
Superdex 200 10/300 Gl column pre-equilibrated with 20 mM Hepes pH 7.5, using an
AKTA Purifier FPLC system (GE Healthcare). Samples (1 ml) were loaded onto the column at 1 mg/ml.
Vitamin B12 (1350 Da),
horse myoglobin (17,000 Da),
chicken ovalbumin (44,000 Da),
bovine γ-globulin (15,8000 Da), and
bovine thyroglobulin (670,000 Da) (Bio-Rad) were used as MW standards. The logarithm of the MW of the standards were plotted against the ratios of the respective elution volumes (v
e) to the void volume (v
0). The points were then fitted to a linear regression, and the values of slope and intercept were used to determine the molecular weight of
SaTrmK in solution.
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