::P. Oranje wrote in message
:> At the moment I am purifing peroxidase from horseradish
:> roots. Protein determination is performed according to
:> Bradford's assay. Can someone tell me what the general
:> mathematical formula is that describes the correlation
:> between protein concentration and extinction best when
:> using Bradford's assay for protein determination ?
::What are you using to calibrate your protein concentrations? Why not use
:Horseradish peroxidase, that you have bought from Sigma! I guess that might
:defeat the object. By extinction - do you mean absorbance? Or extinction
:coefficient? There is A=e c l, where A is absorbance of sample, e is the
:molar extinction coefficient, c is concentration and l is pathlength...
:Beer Lambert I think it is called...
:
The most linear results are obtained if not absorbance at 595 nm is
measured but a ratio of A(620)/A(425). Also such calibration is less
sensitive to various interferences usual to Bradford assay.
- Dima
