FIGURE 6.
Co-purification of M. acetivorans subunit DΔD3 with subunit L(His) after co-expression in E. coli. A, anaerobic size exclusion chromatography of eluate (∼50 mg of total protein) from Ni2+ affinity chromatography of E. coli cell lysate containing M. acetivorans subunits L(His) and DΔD3. The asterisk indicates the peak that is consistent with a the molecular mass of a heterodimer of DΔD3-L(His) (34.8 kDa). B, SDS-PAGE analysis of the purified D-L(His) (lane 1) and DΔD3-L(His) (lane 2) heterodimers, confirming the smaller molecular mass of DΔD3 (23.3 kDa) compared with D (28.7 kDa). mAU, milliabsorbance units.