Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
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...controls needed for relative quantification of a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying ...
Loading controls are even more important for semi-quantitative western blots. No pipetter is perfect...blotting quantification” (Gilda & Gomes, 2013).
To address this source of error, it’s important to determine... on so called “housekeeping proteins.”
Fully quantifying a western blot requires a standard curve with...cases. Often, you may not need to know the exact quantity of your POI, but simply whether its concentration...experimental parameters. This is a job for a semi-quantitative western blot.
Most western blots benefit from...accurately compare different lanes? In relative quantification, the POI bands are normalized to the loading...