In article <34BE4ACD.611E at orac.sund.ac.uk>,
gerald <hs0lbe at orac.sund.ac.uk> wrote:
>Pete wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know any specific protein complexes that are precipitated
>> from tissue homogenates by the addition of 1 mM Zn chloride.
>>>> I get a huge precipitate when I add more than 0.1 mM Zn chloride that
>> seems to contain specific proteins. If I only had a clue what these
>> proteins could be...
>>
Just a wild guess, but could it be tubulin? I know tubulin forms zinc
sheets at around that zinc concentration, and that they will precipitate
rather nicely.
Kurt
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