Could I trust in qubit for protein quantification?

I need quantify the protein amout from human DCs lysed by RIPA buffer ( 150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40 or Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS, 50 mM Tris, pH 8.0 ) to use in a immunoblot....

11 December 2019 3,701 3 View

Is it possible to use the same permeabilizing agent to perform intracellular staining of cytoplasmatic and nuclear proteins in flow cytometry?

I work with human mo-DCs and I need to detect cytoplasmatic and nuclear proteins by flow cytometry using flurochrome-conjugated antibodies (direct detection), that is, I need to permeabilize both...

04 May 2019 4,991 5 View

What is recommended temperature to perform fixation with formaldeihyde or paraformalde to intracellular staining by flow cytometry of culture cells??

04 May 2019 3,390 4 View

There is a need to fixation step to detect soluble proteins in cytoplasma or nucleus by flow cytometry?

I need to detect and measure the abundance of cytoplasmatic proteins (AIM2, GBP1, GBP4) and nucleic proteins (IFI16), all apparently soluble, using direct detection by flow cytometry with...

04 May 2019 5,624 3 View

Why mercaptoethanol in THP-1 culture medium?

I have purchased THP-1 cell line from ATCC and they recommed mercaptoethanol. It is a reducing agent, what is the function of this kind of agent in culture medium of THP-1 cells? How...

04 May 2019 9,930 3 View

What is the best permeabilizing agent to detect soluble cytoplasmatic and nucleic proteins by flow cytometry?

I need to detect and measure the abundance of cytoplasmatic proteins (AIM2, GBP1, GBP4) and some nucleic proteins (IFI16)using direct detection by flow cytometry with fluorochrome-conjugated...

04 May 2019 7,582 2 View

What is antibody concentration recommended to western blot?

I need to detect and measure the abundance of cytoplasmatic proteins (CASP1 an GSDMD) by western blot in human mo-DCs, and some companies where I purchased the antibodies do not specify a...

04 May 2019 1,385 5 View

What is the difference between formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde in cells fixation for intracellular staining using flow citometry?

I need to detect and measure the abundance of cytoplasmatic proteins (AIM2, IFI16, GBP1, GBP4) using direct detection by flow cytometry with fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies in human mo-DCs and...

04 May 2019 6,491 4 View

How many human primary cells I need to quantify protein abundace in western blot analysis?

Someone that work with human primary cells and western blot: how many cells I need to identify protein abundance in western blot analysis? I want to quantify Caspase-1 and gasdermin D

31 December 2018 5,105 5 View

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I want to detect caspase 1 activation in human monocytes-derived dendritic cells after interaction with my pathogen.

10 November 2018 2,081 4 View

Could you recommend any books about Number Theory?

Beginner level books. High level books. Analytical Number Theory. Algebraic Number Theory. Combinatorical Number Theory. Books about partitions. Books about primes.

03 March 2021 7,174 5 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

Does different dilution factors affect negatively on NH3 reading ?

I have a sample of treated water sample & asked to obtain ammonia conc. in sample using a machine with 5-25 ppm detection range. However, upon testing with different dilution factors, all...

27 February 2021 8,483 3 View

How to compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View