The lac mRNA (as most mRNA is in bacteria) is extremely unstable and decays with a half-life of only 3 minutes.

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Affinity chromatography exploits the unique property of extremely specific biological interactions to achieve separation and purification.

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Affinity chromatography used for the purification of enzymes, nucleotides, nucleic acids, immunoglobulins, membrane receptors and even to whole cells and cell fragments.

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Principle of purification of an enzyme by affinity chromatography.

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Examples of group-specific ligands commonly used in affinity chromatography

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The peptide or protein (known as a ‘ tag’) can be placed at the N- or C-terminal ends and provides a means for the fusion protein to be selectively purified from the cell extract by affinity chromatography.

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Fusion Constructs to Aid Protein Purification can be created by using Glutathione- S -transferase (GST), Maltose-Binding Protein (MBP), Poly-Histidine Tag (His-tag), FLAG ®