detection of proteins in FPLC

[W R Bennett]

In the referenced article, dalmiabk at phibred.com (bipin k. dalmia) writes:
>On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:49:38 GMT, bspwrb at bath.ac.uk (W R Bennett)
>wrote:
>
>>Assuming 280nm detection, 1.00 AU is roughly equivalent to 1.0 mg/ml, so,
>>for example, if your sensitivity is set to 0.01, then full scale
>>deflection is roughly 10ug/ml. 
>
>this would assume a flow-cell path length of 1.0 cm and i do not think
>that detector flow-cells have a 1.0 cm path length.
>
Good point, but I think the flow-cell that came with our Pharmacia UV-M
(ten years old, admittedly) did actually have a 1.0cm path length, but
it's easy to check - just look in that huge binder you get with the FPLC
system to see what your path length is. 

Bill Bennett
Developmental Biology Unit,
School of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Bath

bspwrb at bath.ac.uk