The Cydex Blue Assay: A One-Step Protein Assay for Samples Prior to SDS Electrophoresis Thierry Rabilloud To cite this version: Thierry Rabilloud. The Cydex Blue Assay: A One-Step Protein Assay for Samples Prior to SDS Elec- trophoresis. B.T. Kurien and R.H Scofield. Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins, Part of Methods in Molecular Biology, 1855, Humana Press: New York, NY, pp.73-80, 2019, 10.1007/978-1-4939-8793- 1_6. hal-02078802 HAL Id: hal-02078802 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02078802 Submitted on 27 Mar 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. The cydex blue assay: a one step protein assay for samples prior to SDS electrophoresis Thierry Rabilloud 1,2,3 1: CNRS UMR 5249, Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals, Grenoble, France 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals, Grenoble, France 3: CEA Grenoble, BIG/CBM, Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals, Grenoble, France to whom correspondence should be addressed: Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, UMR CNRS-CEA-UJF 5249, BIG/CBM, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
[email protected] running title: protein assay in the presence of detergents keywords: cyclodextrin, detergents, dye-binding, protein assay, RIPA buffer, SDS electrophoresis, SDS buffer, Bradford assay Abstract Determination of protein concentrations prior to SDS electrophoresis is made difficult by the simultaneous presence of SDS and reducers in the buffers used for protein extraction.