...interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target cells, now what? How can you tell if the protein you are... are so keen to study is expressing in your cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western...specific protein within the complex mix derived from cells or tissues. Westerns are useful not only to detect...context (Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than those used by the vendor for validation...negative controls. Positive controls typically include cell lines or tissues that are known to express the protein...readout for subcellular fractionations, a procedure that isolates proteins from different cellular compartments...protein levels relative to standards, detect the cellular location of proteins, and can be a readout for...