Why the protein is not secreted to the medium?

Dear all, Why is a protein, which is expressed in HEK293 cells, not excreted to the medium? The protein remains soluble into the cell. Which could be the reasons? Thanks for your time! Best...

04 November 2020 4,398 8 View

Does HEPES work with enzymatic Assay (S-adenosylmethionine synthetase; MAT)?

11 November 2014 1,676 2 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

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23 February 2021 4,014 3 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Can I use FLEXBAR to detect and remove barcodes out of my short reads without demultiplexing ?

Hello, I have demultiplexed my short reads and I have removed the Illumina adapter left in the sequences and now I need to remove the barcodes used by the sequencing centre from my reads. I have...

22 February 2021 9,873 3 View

Can we remove the fmoc group after peptide cleavage?

I have synthesized the peptide using Fmoc based solid phase peptide synthesis. Also I have cleaved the peptide from the resin and lyophilized it, but later realized that, I forgot to deprotect the...

21 February 2021 4,537 3 View

How can I retrieve FASTA sequence from gene ID or UID of a Gene ? I have GeneBank IDs ?

I treid to use Entrez Batch, but it redirects me to NCBI site. Is there any script of Linux or Python through which I can download Fasta sequence of list of gene ID ?

21 February 2021 7,783 12 View

How T cells recognise non-peptide antigens?

This might sound very basic question, but please share with me an explanation of how the T cell is activated when the antigen is not a peptide? What happens? And what are the molecules involved in...

21 February 2021 564 3 View

What is the cause of the banding obtained after purifying the PCR product with ExoSAPIT?

Hello We are working on a PCR product with an approximate size between 5000 and 7000 bp, we want to use it as a positive internal control, since we have sequenced it and it corresponds to the...

17 February 2021 2,896 3 View

Is this the fragment of a sauropod tooth?

Dear colleagues. Fragments of this species are very rare from a terrestrial Lower Cretaceous locality from Germany. Up to now from this locality sauropods could not be proved with certainty. Other...

14 February 2021 2,310 1 View

Help with Amyloid beta detection protocol (western-blotting)?

Hi everyone, I am a first year PhD student working on amyloidosis. I would like some tips and tricks to crack efficiently my current nightmare, i.e. the western blotting of the Amyloid beta and...

11 February 2021 2,513 3 View