Recombinant TEV Protease

TEV (Tobacco Etch Virus) Protease is a highly specific cysteine protease that recognizes a linear epitope of the general form E-Xaa-Xaa-Y -Xaa-Q-(G/S) and cleaves between Q and G/S. The most commonly used sequence is ENLYFQG. Its specificity is more stringent than that of factor Xa, thrombin or enterokinase. The TEV protease is a useful reagent for purification tag removal during recombinant protein purification. ScienCell's engineered TEV protease (rTEVase) has higher stability compared to wild-type TEV protease and is fused with a N-terminal His-tag to facilitate its removal from the digested protein sample.