Protein Purification:
Principles and Practice


COURSE OUTLINE
SUNDAY 3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Registration and Reception 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
- Course Introduction and Overview 4:00 p.m.-7:00 pm.
- Dinner at a nice local restaurant: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
MONDAY 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Lecture: Protein Structure
- Laboratory Introduction and Overview
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Filtration, Precipitation with Ammonium Sulfate, Centrifugation, Fluorimetric and
  Spectrophotometric Assays, and Gel Filtration Chromatography
- Lecture: General Preparative Methods
- Evening Laboratory Exercises: Do Biochemical Assays, Plot Gel Filtration Data, Select Ion Exchange Conditions, Dialysis and Begin
  Purification Table
TUESDAY 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Lecture: Open Column Purification
- Demonstration: Analytical Gel Filtration
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Centrifuge Dialyzed Sample, Begin Ion-Exchange Chromatography
- Afternoon Laboratory Exercises: Choose HIC Matrix and Eluting Solvent, Assay Ion-Exchange Fractions, Plot Data
WEDNESDAY 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Run HIC on Peak Ion-Exchange Fractions
- Lecture: HPLC Theory
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Assay HIC Fractions
- Afternoon Laboratory Exercises: Concentrate and Desalt Samples, Purify
  by SEC-HPLC and Calculate Molecular Weight, Analyze Pure GFP Spectrally
- Lecture: Electrophoresis
  Evening Laboratory Exercises:
- Demonstration: Tangential Flow Ultrafiltration (Millipore, Sartorius, and the Pall Minimate TFF System)
- Demonstration: Three Phase Purification of Proteins using t-Butanol
Interactive Workshops
1. Affinity Chromatography of His-tagged Protein on Qiagen Nickel Column
2. Western Blotting on the Invitrogen/Novex System
3. Titration Curve on GE Healthcare "Phast" System
THURSDAY 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Demonstration: Preparative PAGE on BioRad Prep Cell, 2 Dimentional Electrophoresis on Zoom IPGRunner System
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Pour SDS Running Gel. Load Isoelectric Focusing Gel
- Demonstration: "Phast" System, Native Gel with Western Blot
- Lecture: Analysis of Protein Structure
- Laboratory Exercises (continued): Pour SDS Stacking Gel, Stain IEF Gel
- Afternoon Laboratory Exercises: Run SDS Gel, Stain and Destain SDS Gels
FRIDAY 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Lecture: Molecular Biology of GFP or HPLC of Proteins and Peptides
- Morning Laboratory Exercises: Analyze SDS Gels, Plot SDS Molecular Weight Data, Analyze IEF Gel, Determine Isoelectric Point, Analyze
  "Phast" IEF, Complete Purification Table
- Interactive Workshop: Determination of Chromopeptide Structure:   Analyze Chromopeptide Purification Data.
  Discuss and Analyze:
(1) Amino Acid Composition Data,
(2) Edman Sequencing Data,
(3) Pronase/Carboxypeptidase Data
(4) DNA Sequence Data and
(5) Model Compound Analysis.
-Molecular modeling workshop: Rutgers Structural Biology Computational Laboratory