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D Egger1, K Bienz

  • 1Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|February 22, 2012
PubMed

Proteins, blotted from polyacrylamide gels onto nitrocellulose sheets (Western Blots) can be stained nonspecifically with a variety of dyes, or they can be identified individually by probing with appropriate antibodies. These procedures may be performed on duplicate blots, staining the total protein pattern on one blot and using the second blot for the immune reaction (1,2). This chapter describes how to combine both methods on one blot, i.e., staining the blot first for total protein, followed by an indirect immune reaction (3).

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