A method for the recombinant production and purification of a protein kinase selected from the group consisting of tyrosine protein kinases and serine/threonine kinases by expressing a nucleic acid encoding said kinase in a microbial host cell, forming inclusion bodies containing said kinase, isolating, solubilizing, naturing, and purifying said kinase wherein said purification is performed by hydrophobic interaction with an hydrophobic adsorbent under conditions whereby at least 70% of said protein kinase are not bound to said adsorbent and the protein kinase not bound to said adsorbent is recovered.