Lee Hunt <L.hunt at sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
> Does anybody have explanations as to why a protein on a Western can
> differ widely from its predicted size. Other than proteolysis or removal
> of targetting regions what else could cause this?
Some proteins run irregularly on SDS-PAGE, either because they bind
more or less SDS than the "average" protein, or because they do not
completely unfold, even in SDS.
--Cornelius.
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