In article <bushnt.1119742558A at usenet.rpi.edu> bushnt at rpi.edu (Timothy Bushnell) writes:
>> In an undergraduate lab, we are having the students prepare protein
>profiles of a stationary phase E. coli culture using SDS-PAGE. Currently,
>we spin 50 mls of culture down and resuspend the pellet in 1 ml of 62.5 mm
>Tris pH 6.8, 2% SDS, 5% B-mercapt. and 10% glycerol. This is then boiled
>for 5 to 10 minutes and the samples then applied to a SDS-PAGE gel.
>> The problem is that the sample is very viscous and near impossible to
>successfully load on a gel. Typically, after the sample is loaded into the
>wells, and the pipet tip removed, the sample sticks to the tip and is
>removed as a gob into the upper tank buffer.
This sticky stuff is called DNA which, as a protein chemist, I avoid at all
costs.. :-)
Try sonicating the tube for 2 x 10 secs. This normally does the trick for me.
hope this helps.
....David Martin
dmartin at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
