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Western Blotting

This technique is used to detect proteins of a particular specificity. Particularly when a transferred gene expresses in transformed cells, the translated product in the form of protein can be identified by this technique. The extracted proteins are subjected to polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and are then transferred on to nitrocellulose, to which they bind.

Nitrocellulose membrane is then used for probing with a specific labelled antibody (antibody will not hybridize with protein, but bind with it). The antibody may be labelled with 1251 and the signal is detected again with autoradiography. If radioactive label is not used, bound antibody may be detected by a second antibody tagged with an enzyme.

 

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