Thaw RbCl-competent Escherichia coli Bl21 cells (DE3) On ice.

Add 1µL of pQTEV-LRPAP1 plasmid without the signal peptide (1-35 amino acids) and incubate 0h 30m 0s On ice.

Heat shock 0h 0m 45s at 42°C.

Incubate On ice 0h 2m 0s, then add 850µL Lysogeny broth (LB) or Super Optimal broth with Catabolite repression (SOC) medium.

Shake for 1h 0m 0s at 37°C.

Centrifuge for 3000x g and remove most of the supernatant.

Resuspend the pellet with the remaining supernatant and plate the bacteria on LB /Ampicillin agar plates and incubate 1h 0m 0s at 37°C.

Prepare preculture: Scrap all colonies with the scraper and inoculate 25-50 mL LB/Ampicillin. Shake at 37°C for 4-6 h.

Measure OD₆₀₀ of the preculture and inoculate 6L of LB media to an OD₆₀₀ = 0.05.

Shake flasks at 37°C until approx. OD₆₀₀ = 0.5-0.8. (2-4 h).

Add isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) at final concentration of 1millimolar (mM).

Shake flasks 1h 0m 0s at 22°C.

Centrifuge bacterial culture at 4000rpm. Discard supernatant.

Resuspend each pellet with Lysis buffer (20 mL/1L bacteria) supplemented with Complete EDTA-free protease inhibitor cocktail (Merck). Flash-freeze in liquid nitrogen for storage at -80°C.

Thaw the cell pellets in a water bath at 22°C and add lysis buffer (final volume 200 mL lysis buffer/ 6L bacteria) supplemented with Complete EDTA-free protease inhibitor cocktail (Merck) and Sm DNase 50.

Add 1 lysozyme and incubate gently shaking for 0h 30m 0s at 4°C.

Sonicate lysate On ice, 8 cycles 0h 0m 20s ON, 0h 0m 30s OFF.

Centrifuge lysate at 40000rpm,4°C.

Equilibrate the Ni-NTA column with 10 column volumes (CV, 20 mL) Lysis buffer.

Load lysate supernatant to the Ni-NTA column.

Wash the Ni-NTA column with 10 CV Lysis buffer.

Elute His7-TEV-RAP with 5 CV 100% High salt buffer and collect elution fractions.

Analyze eluted fraction by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie blue staining.

In order to reduce the salt concentration, load the eluted protein onto a HiPrep 26/10 desalting column equilibrated with the Low salt buffer.

Collect eluted fraction containing protein and add glycerol at final concentration of 10%, DTT at final concentration of 1millimolar (mM), EDTA at final concentration of 0.25millimolar (mM) and His-TEV at final concentration of 93U per mg of protein.

Incubate at 4°C 0h 0m 30s.

Load the cleavage mixture onto a Ni-NTA column previously equilibrated with Lysis buffer and collect the flow through where the cleaved RAP protein should elute.

Wash the column with 5 CV (CV, 20 mL) of Lysis buffer and collect eluted fractions.

Analyze flow though fractions by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie blue staining.

Load RAP-containing fractions onto a Superdex-200 column previously equilibrated with SEC buffer.

Analyze eluted fractions by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie blue staining.

Pool fractions containing RAP aliquot and flash-freeze in liquid nitrogen for storage at -80°C.