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I have some questions regarding the AKTA pure system, mainly about the chromatogram.
04 April 2019 2,811 4 View
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...
04 April 2019 2,624 5 View
Hi, I am working with a protein that is typically secreted from the parasitic cells that I study. I am trying to express and purify it from HEK cells. Despite of using the mammalian signal...
02 April 2019 7,295 5 View
I am treating neuroblastoma cells with AB42 protein (monomers and fibrils in separate experiments) and studying what happens after its uptake and concurrent interactions with intracellular...
19 March 2019 4,543 3 View
Hello everybody, I want to purify a 32 kDa protein with a C-terminal His-tag. I use the Histrap Crude FF and I elute with 500 mM Imidazol (no linear gradient) and I get a quite distinct peak with...
18 March 2019 7,843 2 View
Hi All, I have used MBP tag to help solubilize my target protein. It works really well. However, whenever I cleave off the His-MBP tag and try to clean up the sample by passing through another Ni...
09 March 2019 5,532 5 View
We are working on purifying a 60 kDa and have been having issues ridding the fractions of lower MW protein contaminants. We've previously used Ni-NTA and Ni Sepharose 6 fast flow resin for...
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A recombinant his tagged protein (Size: 27 KDa Theoretical pI: 7.85) is eluted fine with 50 mM NaH2PO4 pH 8.0, 500 mM NaCl and 250 mM Imidazole. Precipitation occurs during dialysis with same...
03 March 2019 4,285 4 View
I work with the protein CWC2 which contains a zinc finger. My question is during the process of purification is zinc removed from the protein? If so, how should I go about re-adding it?
03 March 2019 7,914 3 View
Hi all, I am working with a protein that I have characterized quite well by SEC using superose6 resin. In the last 2 purifications, I have been unable to recover the protein in any fractions...
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Can anybody explain what is the road map for solving Protein X-ray crystal structure? Thank you
03 March 2019 1,096 2 View
My model organism is Leishmania containing about 8000 total protein coding genes. I am performing LCMS based whole proteomics to do qualitative analysis under different conditions. What percentage...
28 February 2019 2,758 4 View
I am looking for the protein expression of Methanosarcina mazeii that can get expressed in the presence of acetate. I am not much aware of steps. I was planning to do cell-lysis and then SDS-PAGE...
21 February 2019 8,412 11 View
I want to do structural analysis of the protein after purification.
20 February 2019 3,796 6 View
I am currently trying to run dialysis on a protein purified using the ProBond Ni-Ta purification columns against a buffer of 10mM TRIS (pH 8.0) and 0.1% Triton X100 in sterile millipore water. My...
15 February 2019 1,767 14 View
I use the sonication method to lyse S. cerevisiae and quantify total protein extraction as a function of sonication time. Sometimes foam was formed, as the foam could mean protein...
13 February 2019 1,854 4 View
Hi fellow researchers, for a project that i'm currently performing an protein purification step is required. For this we already have a recombinant protein fused to the Fc part of an...
04 February 2019 6,030 2 View
During animal cell culture, confluent cells are trypsinised, centrifuged, resuspended and finally subcultured. I read somewhere that contact inhibition is used to make the cultures synchronous....
04 February 2019 551 3 View
Dear All, Can we incubate Supernatant and Ni charged beads for binding at room temperature for overnight? Currently, we do not have a fixed temp room in our building. What about keeping Ni...
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We are exploring the pathway of tumour formation in lung cancer. This lactic acid formation is done in mitochondria inner membrane in anaerobic conditions to form 2 molecules of ATP. # warburg...
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