Mouse liver to SDS-PAGE??

[Tom Thatcher]

I want to run an SDS gel and Western blot on mouse liver.  I have
2 strains of transgenic mouse (made by others) and I would like
to verify that they are expressing the transgene.  One is a
metallothienin promoter, the other is MHC class-I, whihc should
be nearly ubiquitious.  Is there any reason I can't just drop a
piece of liver into SDS-PAGE loading buffer and boil it?
If so, what should I do instead?


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