This method for tagging monoclonal antibodies involves growing hybridomas in the presence of radioactive amino acids. This protocol can be particularly useful when conventional labeling techniques cause the antibody to lose activity. The labeled antibodies that result are essentially identical to the unlabeled antibodies. - [Read Labeling Monoclonal Antibodies by Biosynthesis Protocol]
Protocol describes a method for generating isolated plaques from a stock of bacteriophage lambda. Each plaque derives from infection of a single bacterium by a single bacteriophage particle. Because each plaque contains the progeny of a single virus particle, the bacteriophages derived from a single plaque are essentially genetically identical to one another. - [Read Plating Bacteriophage Lambda Protocol]
RAPD is a procedure for typing and fingerprinting isolates of a species. It can be used for epidemiological studies, such as investigations into hospital outbreaks and as a laboratory aid to keep track of cultures and to verify that mutants generated in the laboratory are genetically identical to the parental strain. In our hands, the use of one primer, R108, is sufficiently discriminatory to distinguish between the isolates of different strains. - [Read Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Typing and Fingerprinting Protocol]
In the first part of this protocol, the linear range of amplification is determined by carrying out 10 identical PCRs in the presence of [{alpha}-32P]dCTP and stopping one reaction after every two cycles. Amplification products are quantified on a denaturing polyacrylamide gel and the results plotted on a graph (counts per minute vs. cycle number). Total RNA is used as an internal control. - [Read Relative RT-PCR: Determining the Linear Range of Amplification and Optimizing the Primers:Competimer]
Protocol describes the practice of stripping immunoblots and reprobing to detect multiple proteins on the same blot is a good method to examine two antigens under identical conditions. - [Read Stripping Immunoblots for Reprobing or Storage Protocol]