coomassie vs silverstain

[Peeter Toomik]

Silver staining is most discriminative. If one stains a gel with
Commassie after silver staining,  several bands appear that were not
stained with silver at all (I have made this experiment several times).
For short review with references:
Practical Protein Chemistry. A Handbook. Ed. by A. Darbre (Wiley
Interscience Publication), or
R.K.Scopes, Protein Purification, (Springer)
I do not remember the references, but Coomassie G250 is probably less
discriminative than Coomassie R, and a less sensitive stain - Amido
Black - is also most indicriminative.

Peeter Toomik

Per Mygind wrote:

> Which method of gel-staining is the most indiscriminative, so that you
> can rely on the stainingpattern
> as a tool of a quatitative proteinprofile. I have a very different
> staining profile using the two methods of
> an outermembrane preperation. Does anyone have references to this ?
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