Anyone has an idea about having thick band in sds-page,western blott? The Protein extracted from sperm,I used bioline ready kit for DNA,RNA & protein extraction, I heated my sample at 95C for 5 min before loading. Thanks
Based on your picture, I suppose the problem is in loaded amount of protein - so try to load less or dilute the sample...but it all depends on purpose of the gel.
Based on your picture, I suppose the problem is in loaded amount of protein - so try to load less or dilute the sample...but it all depends on purpose of the gel.
Dear Eiman, I see two problems: too much of protein introduced into the lanes of the gel, and too long incubation with antibodies. In addition, reduce the time of membrane staining.
Dear Eiman: if you only need 3 lanes, you can load 1/5th of what you have loaded and another 3 lanes loading 1/10th. A faint band on a coomassie-stained gel can indicate as low as 0.25 micrograms of protein, in your gel I can see more than 10 times that so you can definitely load less. Also, destaining 2 times on 10% acetic acid (for 20') can improve your destining an you'll get clearer bands when you load less protein. I you couldn't destain enough leave it overnight in water or 2% Acetic Acid.
Thank you all for your answers. I tried another protocol to extract sperm membrane protein and it's seems it works. I think the problem is using this ready kit to extract DNA, RNA & protien, so maybe a contamination occurred during the process.
Given that you have time, you could run a gel with various protein concentrations, e.g. you've got 7 empty lanes in the above pic. You'll be optimizing what protein concentration it's the most beautiful for your publication.
Also, if this is too much, I would reduce the staining time.