Preface |
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Chapter 1 Water, pH and Buffers |
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1.2 The Structure Of Water |
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1.4 The Ionisation Of Water |
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1.7.1 Points to remember about buffers |
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Chapter 2 Protein Structure and Properties |
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2.4 Overview Of Protein Structure |
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2.4.2 Secondary structure |
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2.4.4 Quaternary structure |
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2.5 Motifs And Domains (Super Secondary Structure) |
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2.6 Post-Translational Modifications |
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2.7 The Characteristics Of A Protein Which Can Be Exploited To Purify A Target Protein |
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2.7.5 Molecular mass (Mr) |
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2.7.6 Post-translational modifications |
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2.7.7 Engineering proteins to aid purification |
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2.8 A Range Of Techniques That Can Be Used In Protein Purification |
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Chapter 3 Chromatography and the Strategy of Protein Purification |
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3.3 The Theories Of Chromatography |
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3.3.1 The plate theory of chromatography |
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3.3.2 The rate theory of chromatography |
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3.4 Parameters In Chromatography |
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3.5 The Strategy Of Protein Purification |
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3.5.3 The process of protein purification |
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3.6 The Equipment Required For Protein Purification |
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3.6.4 Fraction collectors |
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3.6.7 Different elution procedures |
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3.6.8 Regeneration and storage of chromatographic resins (media) |
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3.7 Automated Protein Purification Chromatography Systems |
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3.8 Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography (SMBC) |
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3.9 Protein Purification Chromatographic Runs |
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3.9.1 Pre-packed chromatographic columns |
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3.9.2 Empty chromatography columns |
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3.9.3 Flow rates and elution of the sample |
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3.10 Scaling Up The Purification And Some Considerations About Industrial Protein Purification |
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Protocol 3.1 The preparation of a sample and buffers fora protein purification chromatographic run using an automated protein purification system |
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Chapter 4 The Groundwork |
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4.2 Assay To Identify A Target Protein |
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4.2.2 Substrate concentration |
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4.4 The Extraction Of Protein From Cells Or Tissue |
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4.4.4 Enzyme Substrates/Inhibitors/ Activators/Cofactors |
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4.4.5 Inhibitors of peptidase enzymes |
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4.4.6 Phosphatase inhibitors |
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4.4.7 Removal of nucleic acids and nucleoproteins |
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4.4.8 Removal of lipoproteins |
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4.4.9 Additions for the extraction of plant tissue |
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4.4.10 Additions for the extraction of membrane proteins |
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4.5 Techniques Used To Disrupt Tissue Or Cells |
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4.5.1 Animal cells or tissue |
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4.5.2 Plant cells (typically 100 μm in diameter) |
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4.5.3 Bacterial cells (0.7-4.0 μ in diameter) |
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4.6 The Extraction Methods Used With Small Amounts Of Tissue Or Cells |
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4.6.4 Homogenisers/Tissue grinders |
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4.7 Extraction Methods For Large Amounts Of Animal/Plant Tissue Or Cells |
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4.7.2 Blenders with beads |
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4.7.3 Ultra-Turrax/Polytron Homogenisers |
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4.8 The Extraction Methods Used With Bacterial Or Yeast Cells |
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4.8.2 Compression/Expansion |
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4.8.3 Freezing and thawing |
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4.9 Points To Remember About Extraction Procedures |
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4.10 The Techniques Used To Clarify Homogenised Extracts |
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4.10.2 Aqueous two-phase partitioning |
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4.11 The Techniques That Can Be Used To Concentrate Proteins From Dilute Solutions (Laboratory Scale) |
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4.11.1 Salt precipitation |
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4.11.2 Organic solvent precipitation |
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4.11.3 Polymer precipitation |
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4.11.4 Aqueous two-phase partitioning |
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4.11.5 Isoelectric precipitation |
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4.11.7 Hygroscopic material |
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4.11.9 Lyophilisation (freeze drying) |
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4.12 Clarification Of Process Scale Extracts |
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4.12.1 Process scale centrifugation |
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4.13 Membrane Chromatography |
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4.14 The Storage Of Protein Samples |
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Protocol 4.1 The measurement of protein concentration using the absorbance of light at 280 nm |
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Protocol 4.2 Bicinchininic acid (BCA) protein assay (0-1.0 mg ml-1) |
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Protocol 4.3 Bicinchoninic acid (BCA) protein assay (0.5-10 μg ml-1) |
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Protocol 4.4 Coomassie blue dye binding protein assay |
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Protocol 4.5 Azocasein assay to determine the peptidase profile in crude extracts |
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Protocol 4.6 Extraction of plant tissue material using a blender and concentration using ammonium sulphate |
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Protocol 4.7 Extraction of animal tissue material using a Potter-Elvehjem homogeniser |
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Protocol 4.8 The total (a) and fractional (b) precipitation of protein by ammonium sulphate |
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Protocol 4.9 Preparation of dialysis tubing |
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Protocol 4.10 Precipitation of protein from a small volume (0.1-5.0 ml) using acetone |
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Chapter 5 Non-Affinity Absorption Techniques Used to Purify Proteins |
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5.2 Ion Exchange (IEX) Chromatography |
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5.2.1 Ion exchange resins |
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5.2.2 Binding and elution of protein to IEX resins |
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5.2.3 Regeneration and storage of IEX resins |
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5.4 Hydroxyapatite (HA) Chromatography |
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5.5 Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography (HIC) |
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5.5.1 The binding and elution conditions for HIC |
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5.5.2 The regeneration and storage of HIC resins |
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5.6 Hydrophobic Charge Induction Chromatography (HCIC) |
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5.7 Introduction To Mixed Mode (Multimodal) Chromatography (MMC) |
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5.7.1 Capto MMC (GE Healthcare) |
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5.7.2 Mercapto-benzimidazole sulfonic acid (MBI) |
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5.7.3 Nuvia cPrime (Bio-Rad) |
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Protocol 5.1 Small-scale screening experiment to establish the appropriate binding and elution conditions for chromatographic resins |
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Protocol 5.2 The purification of calcium-dependent proteins using hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) |
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Protocol 5.3 The affinity elution (displacement) of enzymes from an ion exchange column |
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Chapter 6 Affinity-Based Procedures Used to Purify Proteins |
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6.1 Introduction To Affinity Chromatography |
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6.2 The Resins Used In Affinity Chromatography |
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6.4 The Binding And Elution Conditions For Affinity Chromatography |
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6.5 The Regeneration And Storage Of Affinity Resins |
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6.6 Group-Specific Ligands |
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6.7 Covalent Chromatography |
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6.7.1 Introduction to covalent chromatography |
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6.7.2 The binding and elution conditions for covalent chromatography |
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6.7.3 The regeneration and storage of covalent chromatography resins |
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6.8 Dye Ligand Affinity Chromatography |
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6.9 Immunoaffinity Chromatography |
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6.9.1 Introduction to immunoaffinity chromatography |
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6.9.2 The binding and elution conditions for immunoaffinity resins |
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6.9.3 Regeneration and storage of immunoaffinity resins |
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6.10 Lectin Affinity Chromatography |
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6.10.1 Introduction to lectin affinity chromatography |
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6.10.2 The binding and elution conditions for lectin affinity chromatography |
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6.10.3 Regeneration and storage of lectin resins |
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6.11 Immobilised Metal (ION) Affinity Chromatography (IMAC) |
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6.11.1 Introduction to immobilised metal affinity chromatography |
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6.11.2 The binding and elution conditions for IMAC |
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6.11.3 The regeneration and storage of IMAC resins |
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6.12 The Purification Of Recombinant Proteins |
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6.12.1 Introduction to the purification of recombinant proteins |
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6.12.2 The use of IMAC to purify recombinant proteins |
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6.12.3 The use of fusion proteins to purify recombinant proteins |
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6.13 Affinity Partitioning (Precipitation) |
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Protocol 6.1 Purification of IgG using protein A agarose |
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Protocol 6.2 Purification of anti-transglutaminase 2 (TG2) monoclonal antibody ID10 (NTU) from a monoclonal cell culture supernatant using cation exchange chromatography |
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Chapter 7 Non-Absorption Techniques for Purifying Proteins |
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7.1 Introduction To Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) |
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7.2 The Theory Of Size Exclusion Chromatography |
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7.3 Factors To Consider In Size Exclusion Chromatography |
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7.3.2 The bead size of the resin |
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7.3.4 The size of the sample |
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7.3.5 The sample viscosity |
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7.3.6 The composition of the buffer |
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7.4 Size Exclusion Media Preparation And Storage |
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7.5 Applications Of Size Exclusion Chromatography |
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7.5.2 Separation of aggregates or removal of low amounts of contaminating material by size exclusion chromatography |
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7.5.3 Desalting (group separation) |
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7.5.4 Refolding of denatured proteins |
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7.6 Dynamic Light Scattering |
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Protocol 7.1 Desalting: The exchange of buffer ions in a protein sample using size exclusion chromatography |
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Chapter 8 Methods for Monitoring the Purity of Protein Solutions |
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8.2 Quality Control: Information For A Protein Purification Balance Sheet |
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8.3 The Theory Of Electrophoresis |
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8.3.1 Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) of proteins |
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8.3.3 Denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins |
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8.3.4 Non-denaturing (native) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
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8.3.5 Visualising the polypeptides/Proteins in polyacrylamide gels |
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8.4 Preparative Gel Electrophoresis And Methods To Isolate Proteins From Polyacrylamide Gels |
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8.4.1 Electroelution of proteins from polyacrylamide gels |
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8.5 Introduction To Western Blotting |
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8.5.1 Recovery Of Proteins From Nitrocellulose |
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8.6 Introduction To Isoelectric Focusing |
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8.6.1 Preparative Isoelectric Focusing (IEF) |
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8.7 Introduction To Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) |
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8.8 Introduction To Reversed-Phase High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography Of Proteins |
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Protocol 8.1 The procedure and solutions for denaturing PAGE |
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Protocol 8.2 The procedures and solutions to run non-denaturing PAGE |
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Protocol 8.3 Western blotting using a semi-dry blotter |
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Protocol 8.4 The preparation of enhanced chemiluminescent (ECL) reagent for developing Western blots probed with horseradish peroxidase conjugated secondary antibodies |
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Protocol 8.5 Silver stain (adapted from GE Healthcare protocol) compatible with mass spectrometry |
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Protocol 8.6 Fluorescent staining for polypeptides in polyacrylamides gels |
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Protocol 8.7 SDS-Imidazole zinc stain for polypeptides in polyacrylamide gels |
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Protocol 8.8 The detection of polypeptides in SDS-PAGE gels without the use of additional staining reagents |
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Protocol 8.9 Homogenisation of polyacrylamide gels containing a target protein |
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Appendix 1: The Laws of Thermodynamics and the Gibbs Free Energy Equation |
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Appendix 2: Properties of Amino Acids |
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Appendix 3:The Common Units Used in Biology |
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Appendix 4: Chromatographic Runs |
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Appendix 5: Determining the Concentration of a Compound in a Solution in PPM |
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Appendix 6:The Answers to the Exercises in the Various Chapters |
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Appendix 7: An Alphabetical List of Chromatography (C), Electrophoresis (E), Filtration Equipment (F) and Laboratory Suppliers (LS) |
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Appendix 8: Buffer Tables to Prepare Buffers at a Required pH Value |
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Glossary Of Terms |
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Index |
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