Filter the crude proteins extracted from the Sipunculus nudus intestine through a 0.22-micrometer filter membrane. Store this sample at four degrees Celsius for later use. Pack the arginine agarose matrix affinity chromatography column by loading the arginine agarose matrix medium into a five-milliliter empty chromatography column.
Similarly, load the lysine agarose matrix affinity chromatography column by loading the lysine agarose matrix medium into an empty chromatography column. Equilibrate the affinity chromatography columns with double-distilled water followed by tris hydrochloride buffer. Load the filtered protein sample onto the pre-equilibrated column.
Wash the column with five volumes of 0.02-molar tris hydrochloride buffer before eluting it with 0.15-0.25-0.35-0.45-0.55-and 0.65-molar sodium chloride solutions, successively. Once the elution peak appears in the 0.15-molar sodium chloride elution, collect the fractions in five-milliliter tubes. Concentrate the elution sample using a three-kilodalton ultracentrifugal filter and store this sample at minus 80 degrees Celsius for later use.
When the protein solution was loaded onto the arginine agarose matrix affinity column, the flow-through peak appeared from approximately 40 to 66 minutes. In the gradient elution stage, elution with 0.15-molar sodium chloride peaked from approximately 94 to 110 minutes. When the protein solution was loaded to the lysine agarose matrix affinity column, the flow-through peak appeared from approximately 38 to 60 minutes.
In the gradient elution stage, elution with 0.15-molar sodium chloride peaked from 80 to 86 minutes.
