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. 2017 Dec 1;7:16741. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16842-z

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Expression of QUAD opsin. (A) Protein expression. WT and QUAD opsins were expressed as thermostable, FLAG-tagged variants in HEK293S GnTI cells, extracted with dodecyl-β-D-maltoside (DDM) and purified by FLAG affinity chromatography. An SDS-PAGE Coomassie-stained gel is shown of samples obtained from the same number of cell equivalents. (B) Fluorescence size exclusion chromatography (FSEC) analysis. GFP-tagged WT and QUAD opsins were expressed in HEK293S GnTI cells, and a DDM extract of the cells was analyzed (without purification of the expressed proteins) by FSEC. Both proteins display mono-disperse profiles (the trace for QUAD opsin is vertically displaced from that of WT opsin for clarity). Elution positions of dextran (void volume marker) and albumin are shown.