Figure 2.
ELP (♦) and ELP-sTNFRII (■) proteins resolubilize into warm PBS supernatant reaching a steady-state thermodynamic equilibrium. Data were fit to an increasing monoexponential (Equation 1) with coefficients of determination, r2, exceeding 0.98 for both datasets. The extent of protein release into the supernatant was greater for the fusion protein than for the free ELP (p < 0.05). Furthermore, ELP-sTNFRII resolubilizes more rapidly than the non-fusion ELP (p < 0.05).