Antigen Design and Sera Purification. Custom antisera. Sigma Aldrich. Peptide Selection and Design, Coupling Strategy
# Selecting the Protein Carrier, Multiple Antigenic Peptides (MAPs), Choice of Host, Adjuvant, Immunization, & Sera Collection, Antisera Purification, Ammonium Sulfate Precipitation, Protein A/G, Immunoaffinity Purification. - [Read Antigen Design and Sera Purification]
Deamidation in Proteins and Peptides. Informational page by Glen Teshima. RPLC, HIC, Peptide mapping of proteolytic digests (LC-MS), Protein carboxyl methyltransferase (PIMT). - [Read Deamidation in Proteins and Peptides]
Protocol for desalting of peptides and protein mixtures by RP-HPLC techniques. The RP-HPLC technique can be used to "desalt" peptide or protein samples derived from extraction procedures, from chemical reactions such as reductive alkylation in the presence of urea or guanidine hydrochloride, citraconylation, iodination, or cyanogen bromide cleavage, or recovered from other chromatographic separation. - [Read Desalting of Peptides and Protein Mixtures by RP-HPLC Techniques Protocol]
When choosing a particular molecule for photoactivation studies, it is necessary to have some structural knowledge of the molecule in order to design an appropriately caged species that will retain its biological inactivity until uncaging is effected. Includes synthesis of caged peptides or proteins. - [Read Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Caged Compounds]
A set of overlapping synthetic peptides is synthesized, each corresponding to a small segment of the linear sequence of a protein antigen and arrayed on a solid phase. The panel of solid-phase peptides is then probed with a test antibody, and bound antibody is detected using an enzyme-labeled secondary antibody. This method is very rapid and can be extraordinarily successful. - [Read Epitope Mapping Using Synthetic Biotin-Labeled Peptides Protocol]
In-Gel Digestion Protocol. Excision of protein bands (spots) from polyacrylamide gels Reduction and alkylation . Reduction and alkylation . MALDI analysis of the supernatant after in-gel digestion. Extraction of Peptides.Matthias Wilm EMBL Bioanalytical R - [Read In-gel digestion of proteins to be analyzed by mass spectrometry]
Activation and inactivation of proteins using photoactivation of caged peptides or proteins offer insights into cellular dynamics not achievable using genetic means. The ability to selectively alter the activity of a specific protein at a defined time and location inside a cell allows the correlation of changes in protein activity and cellular behavior. A caged compound, peptide, or protein is prepared by covalently linking it to a photolabile, protecting group. - [Read Introduction of Caged Peptide/Protein into Cells Using Microinjection Protocol]
MALDI Matrices. Commonly used MALDI matrices for analysis of peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids using 337 nm or 355 nm UV lasers. All matrices can be used for sample preparation using the Dried Droplet Method whereas only matrices solubl - [Read MALDI Matrices]
This protocol describes the preparation of polyethylenimine (PEI)/DNA nanoparticles for targeted gene delivery. This delivery strategy improves the efficiency of gene transfer by enhancing the entry of gene vectors into the desired cells and reducing uptake by nontarget cells. We describe here methods for the conjugation of targeting peptides to PEIs, formation of DNA complexes using the conjugated PEIs or nonconjugated PEIs together with targeting peptides, and cell transfection. - [Read PEI Nanoparticles for Targeted Gene Delivery Protocol]
Peptide Handling Guides. Storage Guidelines for Lyophilized Peptides, Strategy for Dissolving Single Peptides, Determining Solubility Characteristics of peptides, Dissolving Approach for Charged Peptides, Dissolving Approach for Hydrophobic/Uncharged Peptides, Guidelines for Dissolving Several Peptides, Peptide Stability and Potential Degradation Pathways, and storage of peptides. Sigma Aldrich. PDF. - [Read Peptide Handling Guides]
Great peptide storage information. Lerner. Peptides are provided as lyophilized product that should be stored as dry powder at -20°C to -70°C in a desiccator, if possible. After lyophilization, peptides retain significant amounts of water. Peptides are slowly degraded particularly the cysteine-containing peptides are oxidized over time at -20°C. - [Read Peptide Storage Information]
Protocol describes the coupling of peptides or proteins to Affi-Gel 10 (Bio-Rad). Affi-Gel 10 is a cross-linked agarose derivatized with N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester on a 10-atom-long spacer arm. The NHS ester allows spontaneous coupling of proteins via free amino groups. - [Read Protein Ligand Affinity Chromatography Protocol]
Protocol for Manual Peptide Synthesis. Resin Swelling And Coupling Of Activated Amino Acid Esters. Deblocking and cleaving peptide from solid support. Synthesis of Peptides. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Protein Core Facility - [Read Protocol for Manual Peptide Synthesis]
Protocol details the purification and analysis of many synthetic peptides of 2-65 amino acid residues. These peptides contain a number of ionizable or polar side chains, but do not contain secondary structural elements (such as ß-sheets) that favor supramolecular assembly. - [Read Purification of Peptides from Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis with RP-HPLC Protocol]
Searches are not constrained for only tryptic peptides, and indexed databases (databases only containing tryptic peptides) are not used. In cases where there are very complex mixtures, such as cell lysates, nonspecific cleavages can occur. Therefore, nontryptic peptides would be missed in the database search. - [Read The Use of Mass Spectrometry in Proteomics: Database Searching]
Protocol describes the use of PCR to characterize a peptide library encoded in a plasmid vector. In this example, the library was obtained by transforming bacteria with the ligation reaction at the end of Use of PCR to Prepare a Double-Stranded DNA Library Encoding Random Peptides. - [Read Use of PCR for Quality Control of a Peptide DNA Library Protocol]