Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting
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...You’ve gotten the plasmid encoding your protein of interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target... keen to study is expressing in your cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western, is ...Burnett et al., 1981).
Introduction to western blotting
In a western, proteins are:
(1) separated by ...proteins to migrate toward the positive charge at the bottom of the gel and separate by size.
Smaller proteins...increasing range of acrylamide content from top to bottom allowing a mix of proteins with a broad size range...gel and membrane are “sandwiched” together with blotting paper and an electric current is applied causing...this method.
Finally, commercially available dry blotting systems efficiently transfer a range of protein...