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#Question id: 18846


For an application where you require a sample of your target protein at high purity, what would be a good purification strategy? Assume that your starting point is E. coli cells in which the target protein fused to an affinity tag has been over-expressed.

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
  1. Affinity chromatography (AC) followed by size exclusion chromatography (SEC)
  2. AC only
  3. AC followed by ion-exchange (IEX) followed by SEC
  4. AC followed by IEX, followed by hydrophobic interaction (HIC) and then SEC