Re: MS:Best stain for sub-pmole digests

Roger Murphy (Roger.Murphy@ludwig.edu.au)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:19:12 +1000

Lisa,

What about some of the fluorescent dye markers such as SYPRO Orange? I
haven't used them myself but lots of my colleagues swear by them!

Cheers,

Roger

At 12:44 PM 21-10-99 -0700, you wrote:
>What is the best stain for sub-pmole amounts of protein to be in-gel
>digested followed by Mass spec identification (MALDI followed by
>LC-MS)? I have heard that Silver staining can be very bad and
>produce no MALDI results. We haven't gone to sub-pmole yet so we
>have just been using Coomassie and such.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Lisa
>Lisa Bibbs, Ph.D.
>10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
>SP3
>La Jolla, CA 92039
>
>http://corefac.scripps.edu

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