How do you know that what you are seeing with stains-all IS the protein of
your interest? I find it curious that a polypeptide will not stain with CBB-R
or silver! Stains-all stains phosphate and glycosidic residues and, to a
lesser extent non polar conjugates (albeit showing different colors). So, if
what is being stained does not migrate in an electric field, I doubt that it
is a polypeptide.
Quoting gilbertjack at hotmail.com:
>> I am currently working on the most difficult project I have ever seen and
> have finally been forced to take the plunge and ask for outside assistance.
>> This protein is a novel type from bacteria. Size exclusion chromatography
> suggests it to be 35-45kDa. It does not stain by coomassie, silver stain or
> any traditional techniques on SDS-PAGE. However, it is stained by Stains-All,
> but this shows it to be stuck at the stacking/resolving gel interface.
>> We have tested for amino-sugars and found none.
>> Does anyone have any idea why a protein would not travel through a
> polyacrylamide gel at all?
>> If anyone has noticed anything like this before I would love to speak with
> you in more detail.
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Jack Gilbert
>>http://biowww.net/mynews/tree.php?group_name=bionet_molbio_proteins&begin=0>
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Coll. Asst. Professor,
Molecular Biology,
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Rm# 336, Chemistry Bldg.; MSC 3MLS
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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