I need help removing IgG from protein homogenates!

[Toumy Guettouche]

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Jil Tardiff wrote:

> Hi folks, 
> 
> I could really use a hand with a confounding problem.
> 
> I have some transgenic mice and I am trying to study the transgenic
> protein (simple). The problem is that our animal facility has become
> infected with *something* of late and the end result is that my mice are
> really making boatloads of IgG. Thus, whenever I perform a protein
> determination my results are skewed because of the IgG load. What's
> more, when I run an SDS-PAGE the Tg proteins are not running correctly.
> The subsequent Western (since we're using goat anti-mouse HRP with ECL
> to detect) has a whopping IgG H+L signal (detectable without primary of
> course) that is making a real shambles of my attempts to characterize
> the mutant protein. The primary Ab is hybridoma supt of c-myc ( 

> snip

> 
> 
Hi Jil,

as mentioned before, to remove your IgG you can use either Protein G or 
Protein A depending on the IgG subclass. It is very easy to determine 
which subclass you have and most companies offer information what 
subclass binds best to protein A or G.
To get rid of your problem with the Western ( secondary recognizes 
Heavy/light chain), you can crosslink Biotin to your primary and use 
Streptavidin-HRP(there are some kits available). If you want to increase 
your sensitivity you could also use a Streptavidin bridge and use Biotin HRP. 
This should take care of your problem.

Hope that helps.

Toumy