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

What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

How do I determine the degree of polymerization of PEG 400 based on NMR integration?

Hello, I am working on the photocatalytic degradation of PEG 400. I would like to know if it's possible to determine the degree on polymerization based on NMR integration, or by the MW of the...

02 March 2021 6,186 3 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Why does two different bioinformatics tools for the same proteins show different subcellular localizations?

During a computational analysis, I found that for a protein of a plant, two different subcellular localizations are seen using CELLO and WoLF PSORT. For example, in CELLO, it identified the...

01 March 2021 6,729 2 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

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

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View