(by irappley from scripps.edu)
Sat Aug 11 21:41:11 EST 2012
Sounds like you just need to optimize your conditions.
1. What is the concentration of your lysate? It should be no more than about 1 mg/mL.
2. Do you pre-clear? Your protein (and lots of others) could be sticking to the beads themselves. Incubate your samples for ~1 hr at 4C with unconjugated beads to pre-clear. You can keep these beads, elute the proteins off them, and see what is coming down.
3. If you still need more stringent wash conditions, you can try RIPA buffer and/or play with the salt concentration. For example: wash 1X PBS + Tween, then 1X high salt (500 mM), then 1X RIPA. You could also add a final detergent-free wash, which further helps to get rid of non-specific binding. Often it's not so much about the specific conditions as about changing them with each wash.
Hope this helps,
From: methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [methods-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Chris McDermott-Roe [cjmcdermottroe from gmail.com]
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Im having some IP issues and Im (seriously) hoping somebody can
Im successfully pulling down my protein BUT its also present in my IgG IP.
Im guessing my washing conditions arent stringent enough but Im slightly
worried that this non-specific binding is occurring in the first place. Is
My protocol is pretty simple, it's as follows..
1. Prepare a heart protein lysate using Cell Signaling lysis buffer
(0.1% triton plus usual buffers).
2. Incubate 300 micrograms of protein lysate with Dynabeads (50
microliters as recommended by Invitrogen) already bound to an antibody (2
micrograms total) against my protein of interest overnight.
3. Wash beads three times with PBS (+0.02% tween).
4. Re-suspend beads in 50 microliters laemli loading buffer and run
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