Protein vaccines include only the parts (i.e. a protein) of a virus that best stimulate your immune system. This type of COVID-19 vaccine contains harmless S proteins. Once your immune system recognizes the S proteins, it creates antibodies and defensive white blood cells. If you later become infected with the COVID-19 virus, the antibodies will fight the virus. Assume that you work in a project for development of such vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine contains S Protein and your job includes isolation of pure S Protein from the virus determination of charge on the protein (or pI) determination of molecular mass revealing three dimensional (3-D) structure of the protein How would you determine the pI of the protein?

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Protein vaccines include only the parts (i.e. a protein) of a virus that best stimulate your immune system. This type of COVID-19 vaccine contains harmless S proteins. Once your immune system recognizes the S proteins, it creates antibodies and defensive white blood cells. If you later become infected with the COVID-19 virus, the antibodies will fight the virus.

Assume that you work in a project for development of such vaccine against COVID-19. The vaccine contains S Protein and your job includes

  • isolation of pure S Protein from the virus
  • determination of charge on the protein (or pI)
  • determination of molecular mass
  • revealing three dimensional (3-D) structure of the protein

How would you determine the pI of the protein?

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