Hi Bernhard, If your cheap imidazole works fine aside from the absorption problem, there's always my favorite stone-age detection method: pencil a numbered grid onto a piece of filter paper, spot the fractions on it, and stain with coomassie. It'll tell you which fractions to load on a gel, and it goes easy on the budget as well. Phoebe
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Phoebe A. Rice Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology The University of Chicago 773 834 1723; pr...@uchicago.edu<mailto:pr...@uchicago.edu> http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/ http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Bernhard Rupp [hofkristall...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:33 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Low 280 absorbance imidazole? Hi Fellows, could someone please point me towards the source of a known high purity imidazole with low absorbance at 280 nm? I am facing the problem of detecting a low absorption protein in high imidazole background after IMAC gradient elution. In the UV spectra of the 2 imidazoles I checked there is some contaminant that absorbs at 280… Thx, BR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernhard Rupp Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow Innsbruck Medical University Schöpfstrasse 41 A 6020 Innsbruck – Austria +43 (676) 571-0536 bernhard.r...@i-med.ac.at<mailto:bernhard.r...@i-med.ac.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. of Forensic Crystallography k.-k. Hofkristallamt Vista, CA 92084 001 (925) 209-7429 b...@ruppweb.org<mailto:b...@ruppweb.org> b...@hofkristallamt.org<mailto:b...@hofkristallamt.org> http://www.ruppweb.org/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------