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Nonidet P40 and Bradford

Dr. Fernando Rodriguez-Pascual frodrigu at mail.uni-mainz.de
Tue Jan 11 09:17:26 EST 2000


Henk Veldman wrote:
> 
> Belscotia schreef:
> 
> > Hi there
> > I used to use NP-40 for solubilizing my protein extracts, but now use
> > IGEPAL-CA 630 and everything still seems OK. I don't know about the
> > Bradford assay but BIO-RAD do a protein determination kit which works
> > well in the presence of many different detergents (according to bio-rad
> > anyway!) I have used this kit in the presence of 0.5% NP-40 and 0.5%
> > deoxycholate with good results.
> > I am NOT employed/sponsered by BIO-RAD!
> >
> > bye
> >
> >
> 
> Bio-Rad sells two assays:
> One is a Bradford variant. It is the more sensitive but is incompatible with
> detergents, dyes or strong alkali.
> The other (they call it DC assay) is a Lowry variant. It is compatible with most
> detergents, but not with thiols (it can, however,  be made compatible with
> thiols).

Hi Henk,

How can it be made compatible with thiols?

> Hope this helps.
> 
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