Western Blot recycling

[Fred]

We use plain old, VERY cheap, sodium hydroxide - 0.2 M, 20 min, room
temp.  Exactly as originally described, except we strip 20 min rather
than 5.  Works great almost every time!!  Occcasionally some leech
through from previous antibody, but not common.  THE BEST method we have
tried.  We have reprobed 10 times in one case.

Suck, R.W. & Krupinska, K. (1996) Repeated probing of western blots
obtained from coomassie brilliant blue-stained or unstained
polyacrylamide gels.  BioTechniques 21, 418-422.

phil

"D.Schnapp" wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Chemicon has just sent me info about their new Western blot recycling kit,
> apparently a stripping buffer without mercaptoethanol that works at room
> temperature. Of course, the thing costs a fortune, so I wonder on which
> protocol this stuff is based. Anyone come across any refs/has experience
> with the protocol?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Denni
> 
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