Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot
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...check its subcellular location and solubility. If it’s membrane-bound or located in a subcellular compartment...about which type of gradient can help answer your particular question before running one.
Good on gradients...strengths. If that’s not working, consider using a subcellular fractionation kit or a lysing protocol developed...enough to get good separation in your ladder, particularly in the sizes around your protein of interest...overheating remains an issue, which can happen with large proteins, try lowering the voltage and using a longer... leftover sample) to fill the relevant wells. Similarly, if you load a gel and then forget to start it...proteins going completely through the membrane or larger proteins not transferring completely onto the membrane...