Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-04-30 Thread WS
Dear Experts, I am attempting to precipitate small amounts of (total) protein from a fruit juice concentrate. It looks quite much like honey. My plan is to dilute it 1x with water (to reduce viscosity) and then saturate it with ammonium sulfate. As the solution contains high amounts of sugars (mos

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-04-30 Thread Pow Joshi
Hi Wo, I was wondering if you could simply use the crude extract to spin down and create a sucrose density gradient...that will allow you to pick out some proteins within the gradient, and then the remaining may go over for ammonium sulphate precipitation ? ...I've no idea how this would work, but

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
What do you want to use the protein for? I had a very dilute, yet viscous extract of flowers that I wanted to use for western blotting. Carbohydrates made it visous, interfered with protein assays, and made the samples run quite poorly in a gel. I ended up using a phenol extraction method follo

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-04-30 Thread WS
Hi Pow, long time no see :) My big problem is that there is almost no protein in the sample -> I won't see any bands. I expect about 1mg from 50 ml. I have started with 50ml of fruit juice concentrate, diluted with 50ml water and then added ammonium sulfate until saturation: No visible turbidit

RE: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-05-01 Thread Irit Rappley
ubject: Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content Hi Pow, long time no see :) My big problem is that there is almost no protein in the sample -> I won't see any bands. I expect about 1mg from 50 ml. I have started with 50ml of fruit juice concentrate,

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-05-01 Thread WS
Hi Michael, I do not need active protein, I need it for a western. I'll give it a try, thanks! Wo ___ Methods mailing list Methods@net.bio.net http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-05-01 Thread Pow Joshi
and here's one more, from sugarcane :) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elps.200900779/pdf on quick view it seems to me that they follow the method that Michael suggested, however, they also seem to have comparative yields from different methods ... hope that helps Pow On 1 May 2012 11:5

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-05-01 Thread Pow Joshi
well, here's a plant phloem/Xylem sap protein isolation I found http://www.springerlink.com/content/h8622j4747246137/#section=82175&page=4&locus=23 They use Centricon ultra filtration step to remove the sugars it seems to me followed by TCA/acetone precipitation On 1 May 2012 07:18,

Re: Ammonium sulfate precipitation from solutions with high sugar content

2012-05-19 Thread Dr Engelbert Buxbaum
In article , novalidaddr...@nurfuerspam.de says... > > Hi Pow, long time no see :) > > My big problem is that there is almost no protein in the sample -> Iwon't see any bands. I expect about 1mg from 50 ml. I have started with 50ml of fruit juice concentrate, diluted with 50ml water and then a