蛋白質(zhì)印跡(western blot)緩沖液和儲(chǔ)備液的配方
您的 western blot 實(shí)驗(yàn)將需要多種緩沖液和儲(chǔ)備液。在可能的情況下,正確地準(zhǔn)備這些并提前做好準(zhǔn)備,將在此過程中進(jìn)一步節(jié)省您的時(shí)間。
Lysis buffers
裂解緩沖液溶解蛋白質(zhì)的能力不同。含有十二烷基硫酸鈉 (SDS) 和其他離子去污劑的緩沖液是以高產(chǎn)率從脂質(zhì)雙層中提取膜蛋白的最有效方法。
選擇裂解緩沖液時(shí),主要考慮的是所選抗體是否能識(shí)別變性樣品。如果不是這種情況,將在抗體數(shù)據(jù)表上注明,并且應(yīng)使用不含去污劑或含有相對(duì)溫和的非離子去污劑(NP-40、Triton X-100)的緩沖液。
Protein location and lysis buffer choice
Protein location |
Buffer recommended |
Whole cell |
NP-40 |
Cytoplasmic (soluble) |
Tris-HCl |
Cytoplasmic (cytoskeletal bound) |
Tris-Triton |
Membrane bound |
NP-40 or RIPA |
Nuclear |
RIPA or use nuclear fraction protocol* |
Mitochondria |
RIPA or use mitochondrial fraction protocol* |
*僅或主要存在于亞細(xì)胞位置的蛋白質(zhì)在亞細(xì)胞組分裂解物中的富集程度高于全細(xì)胞或組織裂解物。這在獲得弱表達(dá)蛋白質(zhì)的信號(hào)時(shí)非常有用。請(qǐng)查閱我們單獨(dú)的亞細(xì)胞組分分離方案。
以下四種緩沖液均可在 4°C 下保存數(shù)周,如果分成等分試樣并儲(chǔ)存在 -20°C 下,則可保存長(zhǎng)達(dá)一年。
NP-40 buffer
NP-40 is a popular buffer for studying cytoplasmic and membrane-bound proteins and for whole-cell extracts. Suppose you are concerned that the protein of interest is not being completely extracted from insoluble material or aggregates. In that case, RIPA buffer may be more suitable as it contains ionic detergents that will solubilize proteins more efficiently.
- 150 mM NaCl
- 1.0% NP-40 (possible to substitute with 0.1% Triton X-100)
- 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0
- Protease inhibitors
RIPA buffer (radioimmunoprecipitation assay buffer)
RIPA buffer contains the ionic detergent sodium deoxycholate as an active constituent and is useful for lysis of whole-cell extracts and membrane-bound proteins. Also, RIPA buffer may be preferable to NP-40 or Triton X-100-only buffers for extracting nuclear proteins.
A RIPA buffer will disrupt protein-protein interactions and may, therefore, be problematic for immunoprecipitation (IP) and pull-down assays prior to western blot. When it’s crucial to preserve protein-protein interactions or to minimize denaturation, you should use a buffer without ionic detergents (eg SDS) and ideally without non-ionic detergents (eg Triton X-100).
Cell lysis with detergent-free buffer is achieved by mechanical shearing, often with a Dounce homogenizer or by passing cells through a syringe needle. In these cases, a simple Tris buffer will suffice, but as noted above, buffers with detergents are required to release membrane- or cytoskeleton-bound proteins.
- 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0
- 150 mM NaCl
- 1% NP-40
- 0.5% sodium deoxycholate - can be prepared as a 10% sodium deoxycholate stock solution (5 g into 50 mL), which must be protected from light.
- 0.1% SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate)
- Protease inhibitors
- Phosphatase inhibitors – if the samples will be used for IP before proceeding with western blot. Note that using phosphatase inhibitors will interfere with phosphatase treatment if this is required before WB.
- 1mM EDTA – optional*
*Some RIPA buffer recipes include 1mM EDTA – a chelator of divalent cations (an important cofactor of many enzymes, such as DNases and proteases) – to inhibit proteases, help dissociate ribosomal subunits and protein-RNA complexes, etc.
Tris-HCI
- 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5
- Protease inhibitors
Tris-Triton buffer (for cytoskeletal-bound proteins extraction)
- 10 mM Tris, pH 7.4
- 100 mM NaCl
- 1 mM EDTA
- 1 mM EGTA
- 1 mM NaF
- 20 mM Na4P2O7
- 2 mM Na3VO4
- 1% Triton X-100
- 10% glycerol
- 0.1% SDS
- 0.5% deoxycholate
Protease and phosphatase inhibitors
As soon as lysis occurs, proteolysis, dephosphorylation, and denaturation begin. These events can be slowed down significantly if samples are kept on ice or at 4°C at all times, and appropriate inhibitors are added fresh to the lysis buffer.
Ready-to-use cocktails of inhibitors are available from various suppliers, but you can prepare your own inhibitor cocktail.
Inhibitor |
Protease/phosphatase |
Final concentration in lysis buffer |
Stock (store at -20°C) |
Aprotinin |
Trypsin, chymotrypsin, plasmin |
2 μg/mL |
Dilute in water, 10 mg/mL. Do not reuse thawed aliquots. |
Leupeptin |
Lysosomal |
5–10 μg/mL |
Dilute in water. Do not reuse thawed aliquots. |
Pepstatin A |
Aspartic proteases |
1 μg/mL |
Dilute in methanol, 1 mM. |
PMSF |
Serine, cysteine proteases |
1 mM |
Dilute in ethanol. You can reuse the same aliquot. |
EDTA |
Metalloproteases that require Mg2+ and Mn2+ |
5 mM |
Dilute in dH20, 0.5 M. Adjust pH to 8.0. |
EGTA |
Metalloproteases that require Ca2+ |
1 mM |
Dilute in dH20, 0.5 M. Adjust pH to 8.0 |
Sodium fluoride | Serine/threonine phosphatases | 5–10 mM | Dilute in water. Do not reuse once defrosted. |
Sodium orthovanadate |
Tyrosine phosphatases |
1 mM |
Dilute in water. Do not reuse once defrosted. |
Sodium pyrophosphate | Serine/threonine phosphatase inhibitor | 20 mM | Dilute in water |
Sodium orthovanadate preparation
Perform all the steps under the fume hood.
- Prepare a 100 mM sodium orthovanadate solution with double distilled water.
- Set pH to 9.0 with HCl.
- Boil until colorless*.
- Cool to room temperature. Minimize volume change due to evaporation by covering loosely.
- Set pH to 9.0 again.
- Boil again until colorless*.
- Repeat this cycle until the solution remains at pH 9.0 after boiling and cooling*.
- Bring up to the initial volume with water.
- Store in aliquots at -20°C.
- Discard if the samples turn yellow.
*Avoid large changes in volume during boiling; put a loose lid on the container to protect it from evaporation.
Soluble protein buffer
- 20 mM Tris-HCI, pH 7.5
- 1 mM EGTA (Ca2+ chelator)
Loading, running, transfer, and blocking buffers
Loading buffer/Laemmli 2X buffer
- 4% SDS
- 10% 2-mercaptoethanol
- 20% glycerol
- 0.004% bromophenol blue
- 0.125 M Tris-HCl
- Check the pH and adjust it to 6.8
Running buffer (Tris-Glycine/SDS)
- 25 mM Tris base
- 190 mM glycine
- 0.1% SDS
- Check the pH and adjust to 8.3
Transfer buffer (wet)
- 25 mM Tris base
- 190 mM glycine
- 20% methanol
- Check the pH and adjust to 8.3
- For proteins >80 kDa, we recommend including SDS at a final concentration of 0.1%.
Transfer buffer (semi-dry)
- 48 mM Tris
- 39 mM glycine
- 20% methanol
- 0.04% SDS
Blocking buffer
- 3–5% milk or BSA (bovine serum albumin)
- Add BSA to Tris-buffered saline (TBS) or TBST (TBS containing 0.1% Tween 20).
- Mix well and filter. Failure to filter can lead to spotting, with tiny dark dots contaminating the blot during signal development and interfering with protein band visualization.
Tris-buffered saline (TBS) recipes
10X TBS (concentrated Tris-buffered saline)
This 10X TBS stock solution contains 200 mM Tris and 1500 mM NaCl.
For 1 L:
- 24 g Tris base (formula weight: 121.1 g)
- 88 g NaCl (formula weight: 58.4 g)
- Dissolve in 900 mL of distilled water
- pH to 7.6 with 12 N HCl
- Add distilled water to a final volume of 1 L
For a 1x solution, mix 1 part of the 10x solution with 9 parts distilled water and adjust pH to 7.6 again. The final molar concentrations of the 1x solution are 20 mM Tris and 150 mM NaCl.
An alternative recipe for Tris buffer combines Tris base and Tris-HCl. This avoids the large volume of potentially hazardous hydrochloric acid needed to neutralize a Tris base solution alone.
10X TBS alternative recipe
For 1 L:
- 24 g Tris-HCl (formula weight: 157.6 g)
- 5.6 g Tris base (formula weight: 121.1 g)
- 88 g NaCl (formula weight: 58.4 g)
- Dissolve in 900 mL of distilled water
- The pH of the solution should be about 7.6 at room temperature. If too basic, adjust to pH 7.6 with concentrated HCl; if too acidic, adjust with concentrated NaOH.
- Add distilled water to a final volume of 1 L.
- For a 1x solution, mix 1 part 10x with 9 parts distilled water and pH to 7.6 again.
The final molar concentrations of the 1x solution are 20 mM Tris and 150 mM NaCl.
TBST (Tris-buffered saline, 0.1% Tween 20)
For 1 L:
- 100 mL of TBS 10x
- 900 mL distilled water
- 1 mL Tween 20*
*Tween 20 is very viscous and will stick to the tip of your measuring pipettes. Be sure you add the right amount of the detergent to the Tris buffer. A 10% solution is easier to dispense than undiluted Tween 20.
Stripping buffers
Medium stripping buffer
- 15 g glycine
- 1 g SDS
- 10 mL Tween 20
- Adjust the volume to 800 mL with distilled water.
- Adjust pH to 2.2.
- Bring volume up to 1 L with distilled water.
Harsh stripping buffer
Prepare buffer and strip membranes under a fume hood.
For 100 mL:
- 20 mL SDS 10%
- 12.5 mL Tris HCl, pH 6.8, 0.5 M
- 67.5 mL distilled water
- Add 0.8 mL β-mercaptoethanol under the fume hood
Nuclear fractionation buffers
The following nuclear fractionation buffers are used for extracting and fractionating the nuclear fraction of cells. The main difference between the buffer recipes below is that buffer A contains a detergent, NP-40.
Nuclear fractionation protocol reagents buffer A
- 10 mM HEPES
- 1.5 mM MgCl2
- 10 mM KCl
- 0.5 DTT
- 0.05% NP-40 (or 0.05% Igepal or Tergitol) pH 7.9
To prepare 250 mL stock of buffer A:
- HEPES: 1 M = 238.3 g/L, therefore 10 mM = 0.59 g/250 mL
- MgCl2: 1 M = 203.3 g/L, therefore 1.5 mM = 0.076 g/250 mL
- KCl: 1 M = 74.5 g/L, therefore 10 mM = 0.187 g/250 mL
- DTT: 1 M = 154.2 g/L, therefore 0.5 mM = 0.019 g/250 mL
- NP-40: 0.05%
Nuclear fractionation protocol reagents buffer B
- 5 mM HEPES
- 1.5 mM MgCl2
- 0.2 mM EDTA
- 0.5 mM DTT
- 26% glycerol (v/v) pH 7.9
To prepare 250 mL stock of buffer B:
- HEPES: 1 M = 238.3 g/L, therefore 5 mM = 0.295 g/250 mL
- MgCl2: 1 M = 203.3 g/L, therefore 1.5 mM = 0.076 g/250 mL
- EDTA: 1 M = 372.2 g/L, therefore 0.2 mM = 0.0186 g/250 mL
- DTT: 1 M = 154.2 g/L, therefore 0.5 mM = 0.019 g/250 mL
- 26% glycerol (v/v) = 65 mL
Primary antibody solution in 1% BSA/TBS
Example of 10 mL primary antibody solution containing any primary antibody at 1:1000 dilution:
- 10 μL primary antibody
- 0.1 g BSA
- 9.90 mL 1X TBS, pH 7.6–7.8
ABC (avidin-biotin complex) in TBS
An example of ABC solution, with each part used at a dilution of 1:100.
For 1 mL:
- 10 μL Streptavidin
- 10 μL HRP (or AP)-biotin
- 980 μL 1X TBS pH 7.6–7.8
Bicarbonate/carbonate coating buffer (100 mM)
- 3.03 g Na2CO3
- 6.0 g NaHCO3 (1 L distilled water) pH 9.6
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