... fusion protein immediately after the arginine of the new epitope, and removed the fragment of the PRAI (ba)8-barrel corresponding to a6(ba)7)8. The remaining fragment of PRAI consisted of 130 ... importantly, the residues contributing to one of the hydrogen bonds in the core of the barrel, Lys258(b1) and Gln332 (b4), remain in trPRAI. It is temptingto speculate that, in the absence of the salt ... accommodate insertion of the FLAG epitope without significantly perturbing the folding of the underlying (ba)8-barrel. This was inves-tigated by comparing the far-UV and near-UV CDspectra of PRAI and...