I am running an EMSA and keep seeing an extra band appearing without an protein. I have gel purified my FAM-labeled probe and it looks to be pure on a DNA agarose gel. I am also seeing the probe disappear at higher protein concentrations but not always seeing the shifted band. I have tried two different EMSA conditions and the same thing happened for both. My protein pI is 5.1. Any ideas?
Conditions:
EMSA 1 (on picture)
EMSA buffer (10mM Tris pH 7.4, 50mM KCl, 5mM MgCl2)
EMSA 2 (on picture)
EMSA buffer (20mM HEPES pH 7.9), 20mM KCl, 5mM MgCl2, 0.2mM EDTA
Both: 10nM FAM labeled probe and protein (50uM to 1.5uM)
Gel:
6% Tris-glycine acrylamide gel