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- April 8, 2010 at 9:12 am #13068jasminaParticipant
- April 8, 2010 at 9:30 am #98866JackBeanParticipant
what are the big black spots?
- April 9, 2010 at 12:59 am #98874jasminaParticipantquote JackBean:what are the big black spots?
I have no idea about it, previous, when i detected this antibody, expect aim bands, background is clear. so i do not know what happened this time. 😕
- April 9, 2010 at 6:29 am #98877jasminaParticipant
I did detection again today, using same antibody, but varied protocol. yesterday, i used 5% BSA blocking, and blocked 1hr, then 1st antibody incubation overnight at 4 degree. today, i used 5% skim milk blocking, blocked overnight at 4 degree then incubated with 1st antibody 1hr at room temperature. result as following, this time, this no black spot. but I still do not know what difference for these 2 types blocking and incubation protocol. 😕
- April 10, 2010 at 3:18 am #98888MrMisteryParticipant
how long do you usually block for? Maybe 1 hour block is just not enough? Though I must confess, I’ve never seen an anomaly like yours, I don’t understand why BSA would preferentially bind to where the lanes are and not in between
- April 10, 2010 at 5:59 am #98889jasminaParticipantquote MrMistery:how long do you usually block for? Maybe 1 hour block is just not enough? Though I must confess, I’ve never seen an anomaly like yours, I don’t understand why BSA would preferentially bind to where the lanes are and not in between
my antibody is phospho-p38 MAPK kinase(Thr180/Tyr182) antibody. Usually, for this antibody, we used 1hr 5% BSA blocking, and incubation overnigh with primary antibody. In recent months, we used same protocol but could not get clear bands, so i changed protocol.
- April 11, 2010 at 10:18 pm #98940MrMisteryParticipant
maybe that antibody is from a bad stock or something. You could try to borrow some from someone else and see if you get the same result. But really, if the longer blotting works, probably sticking with that is the wisest choice.
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