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I am isolating plasma membrane proteins from mouse hippocampus using kit from Abcam. I am interested in oligomeric forms of the protein connexin 43 (mol wt 43). It forms a hexamer (called...
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Few things about blue native page I couldn't find at all. First, why do we have separate cathode and anode buffers (in traditional SDS PAGE tris-glycine is the only buffer) in BN PAGE?. Moreover,...
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I am trying to separate membrane and cytosolic proteins from mouse hippocampus. Attached is the brief procedure. My question is how do I ensure that membrane fraction is devoid of cytosolic...
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