Which detergent interferes with enzymatic activity the least?

I am doing an assay for interaction with a substrate and I need a detergent that will interfere with the enzymatic activity as little as possible. What is the general recommendation in this case....

10 November 2019 9,907 6 View

Why are people using both EDTA and EGTA in a buffer?

05 June 2019 5,459 0 View

Is there a his-tagged protein standard for IMAC HPLC?

I am doing some his-tagged protein purification and I would like to see if the chromatography works by running a standard. Is there a cheap histidine tagged protein people tend to use? Also the...

03 April 2019 2,537 5 View

Is there an algorithm prediction for peptide absorbance at 214nm?

I have a peptide I would like to quantify with 214 nm abrobance. Is there an algorithm (or a rule of thumb,) to predict what the absorbance should be like there for 280nm?

03 April 2019 7,211 1 View

How to make filter tips from normal tips?

I need to get a filter of good porosity (flows well) at the bottom of a 200ul tip. I need to filter small volumes of solutions in 96 format. Any ideas? The filter needs to be inert (so C18 or C8...

31 December 2018 6,909 4 View

Please recommend a dye that can be quantified by absorption to inverstigate gel filtration desalting efficiency?

I would like to test the efficiency of desalting by a gel filtration column and I decided to check the desalting efficiency by monitoring removal of a dye through absorbance. Can anyone recommend...

01 February 2018 2,886 2 View

Can I treat protein sample as part of the water phase with chloroform-methanol protein precipitation?

03 April 2017 8,178 1 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

Waters 2707 HPLC autosampler problem?

I am using a 2707 waters HPLC device. When I try to inject a sample, it says missing plate or rack. I changed the needle and calibrated its position but I still get the same problem. I even get...

02 March 2021 1,408 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 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

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View

Can we recognize signs of the "volatility clustering" property of a time series in its time domain plot?

My purpose is to recognize the volatility clustering property without statistical tests such as The Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test.

24 February 2021 4,150 3 View