In article <34221F3A.6F29 at citec.qld.gov.au>, leakeya at citec.qld.gov.au wrote:
.> How do I concentrate a low molecular weight protein (less than 5kDa)
.> from gel filtration fractions ie. dilute???, keeping in mind that
.> filtration devices and dialysis tubing concentrate above this size.
.>
.> I have tried ammonium sulphate precipitation (up to 80%) with poor
.> results. It just doesn't want to precipitate!!!
Why precipitate your protein. Precipitation of protein has three big
problems and you have run into two of them.
the thre problems are 1) does not work well with dilute proteins
2) does not work well with small proteins
3) proteins often hard to resolvate
the solution to your problem is to do a phase extraction with Phenol.
A good paper for reference is "Concentration of Dilute Protein for
Electrophoresis", Anal. Biochem., 226, 382-383 (1995).
Hope this helps, BTW I had the same problem and it really slowed my work.
Peter
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