What is the range of Magnesium concentration necessary for EGTA to chelate Calcium?

Hello, I need to know what is the maximum and minimum concentration of Mg2+ in a medium so that EGTA chelate calcium?

03 April 2015 4,947 3 View

Does anyone have experience with poly-L-lysine coating for plant cell microscopy?

Hello everyone,I am trying to measure Young's modulus on plant cell walls. I am usin atomic force microscopy to do it. I tried fixing my cells with poly-l-lysine and it does attach some cells,...

01 January 1970 4,699 5 View

How to calculate the fraction metabolized of a drug by an enzyme using clearance(ml/min) values of the metabolite formed?

I am trying to find the fraction metabolized of a drug by CYP and UGT enzymes. I am unable to get the values of fraction metabolized (Fm) directly from the literature. Can we calculate the Fm of a...

21 February 2021 5,379 2 View

How could the concentration from RNA extraction is really low?

Hello everyone, currently, I'm trying to do RNA extraction from seeds of Arabidopsis. I'm using the protocol below: RNA isolation from siliques, dry seeds, and other tissues of... I use about...

17 February 2021 7,583 4 View

Hi, can anybody help me with the suggestions how can I amplify a stress induced gene of 1107 bp?

I am trying to amplify the TGA1 (Transcription factor 1 ) of Arabidopsis ,which is 1107 bp. I have treated the plants with Salycylic solution over night and extracted the RNA and make cDNA. I...

17 February 2021 7,802 2 View

How long does it take to design and validate transition state analogue inhibitors?

Hi, I'm asking from the point of view of designing a research plan: How long (approximately) can it take to determine the transition state structure of an enzyme substrate using kinetic isotope...

14 February 2021 2,610 1 View

Kinetics of Enzyme production in Recombinant E Coli?

Hello, I am trying to find kinetic information (such as rate of enzyme production etc.) on the expression of taq polymerase in E-Coli after inserting a recombinant plasmid. Any help would be...

12 February 2021 1,386 3 View

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Hello! I want to determine the activity of my in house Reverse Transcriptase enzyme. For this, I have used Thermo's Enzcheck Reverse Transcriptase assay kit. I used commercial Thermo RT enzyme to...

08 February 2021 7,285 1 View

How define one baker unit(BU) is the amount of hydrogen peroxide catalase ?

07 February 2021 2,006 1 View

Does DNA A-tailing survive after agarose gel electrophoresis and purification?

Hi everyone, I need to clone in pGEM-T vector the result of amplifying a metagenomic library by PCR with a high fidelity polymerase but I only want to clone the fragments of an specific size...

04 February 2021 6,051 8 View

Which photsynthetic machine is good to use for measruing photysnthesis and CO2 assimilation for Arabidopsis?

Hi all, we are looking to buy a photosynthesis meter that can potentially measure photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, CO2 assimilation, PS1 and PSII efficiency (if possible), etc. it would...

02 February 2021 5,223 3 View

How do I measure Arabidopsis germination rate?

Hi there, I'm looking for a way to measure the Arabidopsis germination rate, like what media I should use to plant the seeds and what indicator I should see for germination. I'm planning to...

02 February 2021 4,785 3 View