acer (forrest at biosci.uq.oz.au) wrote:
: G'day all,
: Does anyone know of a NON-radioactive procedure for testing whether a
: protein is phosphorylated or not? We are interested in whether our recombinant
: is being phosphorylated when expressed in baculovirus. We've thought about using
: P32 in the culture medium but this is a messy and dangerous technique, does
: anyone know of a non-radioactive technique for determining whether our protein
: is phosphorylated?
: Thanks for any replies,
: Alistair Forrest
:forrest at florey.biosci.uq.oz.au
hello Alistair,
there is a way: if you purify your protein and find somebody in the
neighborhood that can do electrospray-massspectrometry for you,
then you have a non-radioactive procedure, very sensitive also.
Other methods would be demanding more material than usually available
since you think of P32: diagonal electrophoresis or chromatography
with alkaline phosphatase inbetween.
bye
Mil
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