At 26 kDa, GST is considerably larger than many other fusion protein affinity tags. For reasons that have not been fully characterized in the literature, the structure of the GST fusion tag often degrades upon denaturation and reduction for protein gel electrophoresis (e.g., SDS-PAGE). As a result, electrophoresed samples often appear as a ladder of lower MW bands below the full-sized fusion protein.
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