Example 6
Recombinant human Tau412 protein was expressed in bacteria using standard methods and purified using cation exchange with SP Sepharose and size fractionation using continuous gel electrophoresis (BioRad). The protein was incubated at 1 mg/ml in 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4 and 1 mg of the oligomerized preparation was used for purification of individual oligomers using continuous gel electrophoresis (BioRad). Non-reducing sample buffer was used to prepare samples for SDS-PAGE using a 4-20% gradient gel (BioRad) to resolve purified tau monomer, dimer, trimer and tetramer. Silver staining was performed with the Silver Express kit (Invitrogen) (shown in