Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
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Blog Post
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April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...consider the following example gel.
Figure 5: An example gel (left) with bands corresponding to...of western blots. Expert Review of Proteomics, 11(5), 549–560. https://doi.org/10.1586/14789450.2014.939635... this chain (blue) to infer or calculate things about earlier ones. In practice, multiple sources of error...condition 2.” By eye, the loading control appears about the same between the two conditions. But it isn’.... However, it throws both assumptions discussed above into question.
Assumption #1: The loading control...searching the literature to see what is already known about your housekeeping protein in your context. If you...step from the POI blot, you don’t need to worry about the linear detection ranges of multiple targets....