Oops, sorry Frank, I realized after I sent this that I had not focused on the
"Western blot" part of your question! I shouldn't read my EMail before my
second cup of coffee. Obviously, this will not work for a Western. I think
quantification with either the Oxford or Boehringer kit for Westerns would be
quite relative unless you have a purified standard of the same protein.
John
>>Frank:
>You might try the "DIG Glycan ELISA" sold by Boehringer Mannheim (Cat.
>#1460366). You adsorb your glycoprotein to the wells of an ELISA plate,
>incorporate DIG into the CHO by oxidation, and quantify the DIG relative
>to a fetuin standard. The standard curve goes down to 2 ng of fetuin.
>In my limited experience, the standard curve works very well and the
>sensitivity is as advertised. How well it detects your oligosaccharide
>may depend on the amount of CHO present and perhaps its tertiary
>structure (accessability of the CHO to reagents).
>>John
>>John A. Proudman
>Germplasm & Gamete Physiology Laboratory
>Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
>Agricultural Research Service
>U.S. Department of Agriculture
>Beltsville, MD 20705 USA
