Western Blot – 5. Blocking
Blocking prevents antibodies from binding to the membrane nonspecifically minimizing background signals. Two different blocking solutions...
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Western Blot – 4. Staining
You can skip staining step. However, if you want to know that proteins were transferred from the gel to membrane, you can stain either...
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Western Blot (Denaturing Condition)– 3. Transfer (Semi-dry systems)
In this step, proteins will be moved from the gel to the membrane. There are three main methods for transferring: tank transfer systems,...
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Western Blot (Denaturing Condition) - 2. Gel preparation and SDS-PAGE
Gel Preparation (XCell SureLock Mini-Cell Electrophoresis System, Invitrogen) Separating Gel Prepare separate gel solution in 50 ml tube...
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Western Blot (Denaturing Condition) - 1. Sample Preparation
Western blot is used to detect proteins in the sample. In this technique, proteins are separated by their molecular weight during gel...
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Immunoprecipitation (IP) - 3. Elution, Analysis
Now, you have agarose beads with the target proteins. Depending on your purpose, you can process IP, co-IP or RNA-IP (RIP). For...
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Immunoprecipitation (IP) - 2. IP
Input When I’ve just started learning IP in grad school, the concept of input was hard to understand. So, I wanted to talk about input in...
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