Protocols
General Protein Isolation and IP Approaches:
Protein Extraction Reagents Pierce; MPER (cells), TPER (tissue)- manufacturer manuals
Cell Surface Protein Isolation (biotin tag pull down kit / cell surface biotin web link)
Single Proteins/ Protein Complexes (Chatham Lab protocol)
Mitochondrial Protein Complexes (Hutson lab protocol)
Protein/ Peptide Clean up and Quantification on a 96 well plate reader:
Protein and Peptide clean up (Microm CapTraps manual / general protocol reverse phase)
Proteins EZQuant (fluorescence) - manufacturer manual
Proteins BCA (absorbance) - lab version
Peptides CBQCA (fluorescence - manufacturer manual
Preferred Gel Staining Procedures:
Colloidal Coomassie (1D PAGE scanned on IR Odyssey scanner) - manufacturer
Sypro Ruby (2D PAGE scanned on Typhoon) - manufacturer
*note that staining with CC after SR improves visibility of 2D gels for manual spot picking.
Enzymatic Digestion Procedures:
(when there is enough sample, check the quality by running a portion 5-10 µg of the predigest on a 1D gel, check the efficiency of in-solution post digestions by running a portion 5-10 µg on a 1D gel, but ALWAYS QC all in-gel and in-solution digestions with a 100 ng of BSA protein standard run the same way side by side)
Cell Lysate Preparation/ In-Solution Digestion
Tissue Lysate Preparation/ In-solution Digestion
Common Protein Stds for LC/MS QC:
Pierce (BSA in PBS), 10-2mg/ml vials of 1 ml each. We digest directly as shown above for the in-solution procedures to use as a basic standard for LC/MS and MALDI, and also as conditioning media for our new columns. We also use this standard for all protein quants and as a standard to run on a gels along with test samples to monitor efficiency of digestion, staining, and overall runs.
Invitrogen (MARK-12) ~1mg of 12 different unmarked proteins in SDS solution; prep for LC/MS by standard in-solution digestion above following standard ice cold acetone precipitation 6.5:1.
Sigma (UPS-1) ~5pmole each of 48 different proteins; prep for LC/MS directly with any common in-solution digestion.
Sigma (UPS-2) ~10.6 mcg of 48 proteins diluted up to 5 orders in magnitude; prep for LC/MS directly with any common in-solution digestion.
Common Approach for MS workup (download general scheme)
Purified proteins from 2D PAGE or IP following 1D PAGE; MALDI-Tof/Tof
Complex proteins (i.e. 3-5 or more); LC-ESI-LTQXL
Reagent Catalog (Mobley Lab) Information (download order information)