Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
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This kind of normalization is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but... assumptions that their loading controls are independent of these other sources of error. It’s important...housekeeping protein in your context. If you don’t find anything, you’ll need to conduct a control experiment...strongly influenced by unexpected variations in any individual protein. This ensures you are truly comparing...with β-actin (1:2000). Representative of three independent blots. B–C) Graphs showing the relative intensity...increasing concentration of β-actin in panel A. Indeed, the quantification in panel B is not especially...total protein are compared. While a higher slope indicates higher sensitivity, linearity is the most important...