Can you help me with pharmacopoeia procedure 3.2.1 on arsenic determination?

Hi to all I am writing you in order to get more information about the procedure 3.2.1 on Arsenic determination in glass containers for pharmaceutical use. In the monograph, at the paragraph...

05 June 2018 1,229 3 View

How do you overcome the following issues with S and Os ICP-OES?

hi to all, i'm experiencing several issues with detection of elements such as sulfur and osmium at icp-oes. in particular, i work with an Agilent ICP, and at each analysis, i have to analyse these...

08 September 2017 5,321 3 View

Is it possible to infere from isoelectric point the superficial pH?

hi to all, i would like to estimate the superficial pH on spherical particles having dimension of nanometers. since the surface is regular and omogeneusly coated, i was wandering if could i infere...

02 March 2016 8,923 2 View

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02 March 2016 8,187 4 View

How can I stop protein induction?

hi to all, i was wandering if it is enough to pellet cells (e.coli) from the protein induction medium containing iptg and resuspend them in a new medium without inductor to stop the protein...

01 February 2016 3,521 3 View

Is it possible to co-trasform E.Coli bl21 de3 gold with two iptg inducible plasmids?

hi to all, i was wandering if it is possible to transform bl21 de3 cells with two plasmids. the aim is to espress 2 proteins at once. the two plasmids are both iptg inducible, and ampicillin...

01 February 2016 2,988 8 View

Is it strictly necessary the chloramphenicol in LB agar plates for pLysS cells, or the ampicillin is enough?

If I add chloramphenicol only in the overnight liquid culture, is ok? should the chloramphenicol be present also during the induction of the protein? thank you

31 December 2015 1,109 3 View

Could the OD_600 of a bacterial culture be a clue of protein expression?

hi to all, i have noticed that if i incubate two parallel bacterial cultures in the same conditions ( one where i add IPTG for protein induction and another in which I don't add anything) the OD...

31 December 2015 935 7 View

Can glucose polymers be used by E.Coli as carbon Source?

Hi to all, I'm wondering if glucose polymers such cyclodextrins, glycogen and more complex polymers, are metabolized by E.Coli. Thank you

09 October 2015 2,677 4 View

How can I dock a 4Fe-4S cluster into a protein?

hi to all, I'm trying to dock a 4Fe-4S cluster into a protein using the Haddock web-tool. I suppose that the protein I'm using coordinates the cluster by means of specific residues, that I have...

05 June 2015 5,853 0 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

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

What is the most suitable resuspension buffer for TCA/acetone precipitated protein?

I need to extract protein from fermented carbon sources for Bradford assay. Most researchers experiencing insolubility of pellet in resuspension buffer. Please assist me to select most suitable...

26 February 2021 7,129 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

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 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

EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 View

Errors in DNA sequences?

I am trying to better understand the scope of DNA replication and sequencing errors, e.g. 1. I have seen similar error rates of 10e4 to 10e5 for cell & instrumental DNA replication,...

24 February 2021 4,397 3 View