How to design a blocking peptide?

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Does anyone know how to use image segmentation in image J?

Hi, Im trying to use the image segmentation tool in image J for my image and Iam not getting it correctly to find out the co-localization of two proteins. If anyone has used it, could you please...

09 October 2019 7,006 4 View

Anone facing phototoxicity in IF samples?

Hi, Iam doing IF in HeLa cells and facing a weird problem. I use the standard protocol and when I expose the cell to laser light in the 488 channel, all the fluorescence fades the instant its...

08 September 2018 6,665 4 View

Anyone working with connexins?

Hi, Iam encountering a problem in the cell culture. I have hela cells stably expressing connexin 36 attached to GFP on the C terminus. My problem is there is connexin 36 in the internal vesicles,...

11 December 2017 3,975 3 View

Help with cleaving GFP from the protein of interest ?

Hi, Iam working with a protein which is attached to GFP and expressed in Hela cells. I want to do single particle imaging using cryoEM. Im trying to do an IP with GFP antibody and trying to use a...

09 October 2017 2,448 1 View

Protocol for native gel for membrane proteins?

Hi, Does anyone have a protocol for native gel that is working for membrane proteins. Also I have a clarification to be made what is anode and cathode buffer. iam using the tetracell from biorad...

09 October 2017 4,898 2 View

How to represent western blot for paper ?

Hi, I am trying to represent my western blots for paper and have a clarification how to represent the Y axis in the graph. I normalized the test protein with actin and then divided my test protein...

08 September 2017 6,196 5 View

Is anyone working with halotag proteins?

hi, Iam working with a halotag attached to my protein expressed in Hela cells. I was trying to pull down the halotag with magne beads and got nothing in the western. I tried increasing the...

07 August 2017 8,678 3 View

Help with western blot. hello any one there?

hi, I am working with GFP tagged connexin 36 transfected in hela cells. I do a crude membrane preparation and then used chaps to solubliize the membrane for two hrs and run it on a 10% gel. When I...

02 March 2017 9,181 10 View

Should I give the SD in the fold difference and the P value for western blot for publicaiton?

Hi, Im confused on how to present my result for western blot for the paper. I did the experiments thrice by licor and quantified and for each time the machine gave me different values for the same...

09 October 2016 3,583 8 View

How much of cDNA to use for qPCR?

Hi, Iam doing qpcr for a gene say X which has been silenced by shRNA. I used 1ug of RNA for the cDNA conversion and I took 1ul of the cDNA product for qpcr. When I look at the amplification...

02 March 2016 898 5 View

How to increase simulation box size?

We intend to study the interaction between peptides and polymer (like PP, PE and PS) through MD simulations using Martini force fields ( Martini 2 for PP and Martini 3 for PE, PS). We have...

08 August 2024 4,842 0 View

Unusual intensity drop in some sections of chromatograms in DDA?

Hi, we have measured tryptic peptides using both DDA and DIA method on QExactive. In DDA replicates i saw unusual intensity drops occurring at the same sections of chromatograms in DDA replicates...

07 August 2024 3,218 4 View

How to analyze multiple phosphorilation sites?

Hello, I am currently analyzing some phosphoproteomics data, but I have peptides with multiple phosphorylation sites or phosphorylations together with carbamidomethylation or oxidation. How can I...

04 August 2024 8,432 3 View

Recovery rate after peptide desalting using Sep-pack C18 1 cc Vac Cartridge?

Recently I'm trying to use Sep-pack C18 1 cc Vac Cartridge (Waters: SKU: WAT054955) to desalt digested peptides. However, the recovery rate is usually 40-60%. What is the normal recovery rate?

31 July 2024 6,544 11 View

Is it possible to conjugate an NHS ester to the N-terminus of a peptide ON RESIN?

So i have a few peptides (synthesized by SPPS and not cleaved from resin) and I want to add a maleimide label. We have NHS-PEG-Maleimide and from literature it is evident that the free amine group...

18 July 2024 4,075 3 View

Does sucrose interfere with the BCA reagent in peptide concentration assays?

Hello everyone! I am currently working on the expression and purification of an antimicrobial peptide that experiences reduced activity after each freeze-thaw cycle. To improve its stability, I...

10 July 2024 6,830 1 View

What strains of C57 mice can induce rheumatoid arthritis?

Recently I looked up a literature《A Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase Peptide Induces T and BCell-Dependent Chronic Arthritis in C57BL/10 Mice Arthritis without Reactive Oxygen Species and...

09 July 2024 6,657 0 View

I found trouble to run MD of my peptide with PTM in different force field. In Charm-GUI, it cant recognize the engineering residue. What can I do now?

I am working on my PTM project. I have some peptide. I got the result of doing MD of those peptide without PTM in different force field like Charm-GUI, Amber, Gromacs. Now I have to do MD of those...

05 July 2024 9,346 0 View

How to prepare a transparent solution of the peptide with the mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acids ?

I am using a peptide and have faced challenges in preparing a transparent peptide solution. My goal is to prepare a peptide solution in MES buffer and then use the solution to immobilize the...

20 June 2024 8,622 5 View

How do I calculate endogenous peptide using Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry (IDMS)?

Dear Researchers, I'm trying to develop the quantification of endogenous peptide in tissue using IDMS as the primary method of characterization. I performed analysis for the calibration curve of...

17 June 2024 9,797 0 View