What is the role of Potassium chloride or KCl in the same buffer? If I want to extract protein without precipitation should I use PVP? Can anyone explain it in detail and, if possible, provide a link for full text. Thanks in advance.
one use I know of is to precipitate "unwanted" polyphenolic compounds, which will "disturb" further analysis (gels and/or LC/MS).
publication:
An efficient protein preparation for proteomic analysis of developing cotton fibers by 2-DE, Yuan Yao, Yi-Wei Yang, Jin-Yuan Liu, Electrophoresis 2006, 27, 4559–4569 4559
PVP act as antioxidant and scavenge all reactive oxygen species which may cause degradation of protein as well as nucleic acid and denature phenolic compound.