Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Recombinant protein fraction in E. coli


If a protein is heterologously expressed in E. coli under the T7 promoter, what fraction of the total protein concentration in the cell is the heterologously expressed protein? What could be its concentration at most? Does it strongly depend on the size of the protein or are there certain size thresholds for low/high expression?




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