How to resolve this protein stability which gets aggregated?

I am using a bacterial protein and its get aggregated. I get a clear band of appropriate size in SDS PAGE but unfortunately it forms smear pattern in NATIVE PAGE. Also i try to check in TEM and...

10 November 2019 6,919 11 View

Is there any analogous protein for TGFB1 to detect in plasma through ELISA?

I dont have kit but rather have the antibodies and OPD to detect my samples. But problem does arise based on the standard samples. Any possible outcome apart from kit based assay. Yes making...

11 December 2014 6,193 4 View

Does western blotting allow you to measure cytokine levels in plasma?

I want to measure the expression levels of a particular cytokine level in plasma with western blotting. I have primary antibody from ELISA. Does it require any purification? Please clarify my doubt.

11 December 2014 7,522 7 View

Serum or Plasma is the best way to detect cytokines via ELISA?

10 November 2014 8,743 35 View

Any one know of Any RNA isolation kit to isolate RNA from pus cells and is RNeasy Mini Kit is favorable?

I want to isolate RNA from pus cells from middle ear of Otitis Media patients. Is RNeasy Mini Kit provided by Qiagen is favorable?

06 July 2014 8,841 6 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Why am I not able to use all VEP programs for the in silico analysis of avpr1b SNP's?

Good day researchers I am busy analysing the predicted effects of certain SNP's in AVPR1b. When using the VEP prediction programs (SIFT, Polyphen, FATHMM, LRT, Provean, Mutation Assessor, and...

28 February 2021 5,197 1 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 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

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View