Re: affinity columns (Allison)

Hi Allison,

I'm trying to prepare an immobilized-antibody affinity column. I've tried
using a commercial kit that includes a gel which is intended to bind
antibodies that have been pretreated with a reagent that's included in the
kit. My problem is that in the course of troubleshooting the procedure, I
found that just exposing the gel to the antibody solution without
pretreating the antibody with their reagent is enough to confer affinity to
the gel. It binds my antigen about as well as if I had used their reagent,
so the antibody must be passively adsorbed there to a significant extent.

Columns prepared in this way can stand up to acid elutions and salt washes
about as well too. So my question is: Is it possible that it's not
preferable to covalently immobilize the affinity agent? I doubt that, which
leads me to think that my method is misleading me.

In testing the kit I've bought I've been using an enzyme-labeled protein as
ligand. Since a small amount of enzyme can give back a large signal, the
total amount of protein is small. Maybe I haven't been loading enough
ligand onto the columns to reflect the true amounts of immobilized antibody
on the differently-prepared columns.

Hey I might try doing a BCA on the gels themselves to see if there's more
protein on one than the other, or using a larger loading of an unlabeled
version of my ligand. Any other thoughts will be much appreciated,

DanG



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Dan Guire wrote:

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I have done a bit....what is your question? If I can't help I am sure
someone else can.
Allison


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In article <[Only registered users see links. ].net> , "Dan Guire" <[Only registered users see links. ]> wrote:

Knowing what is in the kit anf how it works can do wonders to
understanding what's going on and troubleshooting. Do they tell you the
principle and the chemistry involved?

DK

Dan Guire wrote:

I haven't made my own affinity columns but some questions do come to mind:

Does your gel alone bind the test protein or does an Ab with a different
specificity also give the same effect? Because I agree with you that
enzyme-labelled proteins can sometimes be much too sensitive. Perhaps
the gel has some inherent "stickiness" and will bind a bit of Ab and a
bit of ligand without any treatment at all.

Does the kit come with any info as to how much antibody can be coupled
per gm of gel? If so, how does this compare with how much you can bind
without pretreatment.

What does the company that makes the kit say when you contact them?
Presumably they have lots of experience with troubleshooting and it is
in their best interests to help solve your problem for you.

Do you want to let us know the name of kit/company?

Allison