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<mailman.884.1147183498.16885.proteins at net.bio.net> on Tue, 9 May 2006,
FAROOQ SABAR <farooqsabar at yahoo.com> penned the following literary
masterpiece:
>Hello!
>I purified my protein and analyzed on SDS-PAGE. There
>was only a single band of required size which is about
>19kda.
Ok.
>I stored the protein solution at 4degrees C and
>now after three months when I run the protein on 8%
>SDS-PAGE there are multiple bands. All bands are above
>the required size except a line like band at the dye
>front. Note that I am using three months old stock of
>gel running buffer and SDS solution. Is there some
>thing wrong with the protein or gel or loading buffer?
>Can some one guide me? Thank you.
>>Muhammad Farooq Sabar
It sounds like the band at 19Kda ran as fully denatured protein subunit
i.e. monomer and the later gel is running as not fully denatured protein
so you see dimer, trimer etc.
It could be the gel, running buffer or more likely the loading buffer
has gone off. That is assuming that you did put it in loading buffer for
a couple of mins in boiling water to denature the protein before loading
the gel?
Duncan
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