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Silver Staining Protein Gels

By National Diagnostics | September 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Silver Staining Protein Gels

Utilizing the same chemistry as black and white photography, silver staining is another highly sensitive method for the visualization of protein bands on electrophoresis gels. Silver ions are reduced to insoluble silver metal granules in…

Staining Protein Gels with Coomassie Blue

By National Diagnostics | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Staining Protein Gels with Coomassie Blue

The Coomassie dyes (R-250 and G-250) bind to proteins through ionic interactions between dye sulfonic acid groups and positive protein amine groups as well as through Van der Waals attractions. Coomassie R-250, the more commonly…

Protein Fixation on Gels

By National Diagnostics | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Protein Fixation on Gels

Fixing (or fixation) is the process whereby proteins are denatured and precipitated in large insoluble aggregates within the gel matrix. Fixation accomplishes several goals. Primarily, fixation prevents the diffusion of proteins, thus keeping the protein…

Autoradiographic Enhancement with Autofluor

By National Diagnostics | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Autoradiographic Enhancement with Autofluor

Autoradiographic Enhancement with Autofluor: The Procedure National Diagnostics’ Autofluor is an extremely sensitive, water based fluorographic enhancer for autoradiography on gels, TLC plates or paper chromatograms. GELS After staining, fix the gel with 5% glacial…

Autoradiography

By National Diagnostics | September 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Autoradiography

Autoradiography is the use of X-ray (or occasionally photographic) film to detect radioactive materials. It produces a permanent record of the positions and relative intensities of radiolabeled bands in a gel or blot. Typically, biomolecules…

Alkaline Blotting

By National Diagnostics | September 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Alkaline Blotting

One example of one might attempt alkaline blotting is listed here.

Southern Blotting

By National Diagnostics | September 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Southern Blotting

One possible procedure for Southern blotting can be found here.

Northern Blotting

By National Diagnostics | September 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Northern Blotting

The Procedure ELECTROPHORETIC SEPARATION RNA samples should be free of contaminating particles and DNA, with an A260/A280 ratio of 1.9-2.0. For highly expressed genes, load 10µg total of RNA. For trace expression detection, load 10µg…

An Overview of Northern and Southern Blotting

By National Diagnostics | September 12, 2011 | Comments Off on An Overview of Northern and Southern Blotting

A DNA or RNA probe will selectively hybridize with nucleic acid molecules of complementary sequence in a sample. A labeled nucleic acid molecule of known sequence can facilitate detection of any complementary molecules in an…

Silver Staining DNA Gels

By National Diagnostics | September 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Silver Staining DNA Gels

Silver staining is more sensitive than ethidium bromide for double stranded DNA, and detects single stranded DNA or RNA with no loss in sensitivity. Silver staining relies on the reduction of silver cations to insoluble…