Re: [ccp4bb] extra line of stain in our gel

2008-02-07 Thread Dima Klenchin
When we develop our gel we recently keep getting a horizontal line of stain at 5 mol weight in all lanes of our gel. (This is not a feature of interest except that the protein that we are interested happens to be 5 mol weight). I would appreciate any ideas on how we can get rid of

Re: [ccp4bb] extra line of stain in our gel

2008-02-07 Thread fenguita
Hi Mike Sometimes keratin from your skin (fingers, nails, etc) appear in the gels as a band around 48-52 kDa. Take care in the handling of the electrophoresis should be a solution. Other possible reason could be a contamination of the sample loading buffer, also with keratin or with other protein

[ccp4bb] extra line of stain in our gel

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Colaneri
Hello, When we develop our gel we recently keep getting a horizontal line of stain at 5 mol weight in all lanes of our gel. (This is not a feature of interest except that the protein that we are interested happens to be 5 mol weight). I would appreciate any ideas on how we can get rid o