Protocol

Antibody Microarrays: Label plasma or serum samples

Acc.no: 2GTPKG9 | Published: 2010-12-17 by martin | Author: Christoph Schröder | Affiliation: German Cancer Research Center

Keywords: sample labeling, antibody microarray, fluorescent dye, hapten, biotin, plasma, serum, urine

Label reaction of complex plasma samples for antibody microarray analysis

This protocol describes the procedure for a direct labeling of proteins in complex plasma, serum or urine samples. Samples can be either labeled directly by a fluorescent dye, or by a hapten such as biotin using NHS-ester chemistry.

Required Materials

Main steps

  1. Label reaction

Instructions

  1. Label reaction
    1. Thaw protein samples on ice; the protein concentration should be at least 5 mg/mL.
    2. Transfer 1 mg of each protein sample to a 1.5 mL reaction tube (see Note 10).
    3. Adjust volume to 200 µL with H2O.
    4. Per reaction, add 37.5 µL from a master mix consisting of
      • 12.5 µL 20% Triton stock solution
      • 25 µL 1 M sodium bicarbonate stock (pH 9.0).
    5. Dissolve label reagent (NHS ester of hapten or fluorescent dye) in H2O to have a concentration of 8 mM. Mix thoroughly by pipetting. Use label reagents immediately after dissolving them in order to prevent hydrolysis of the NHS-esters.
    6. Per reaction, add 12.5 µL of dissolved label reagent.
    7. Incubate reaction tubes for one hour on a shaker (200 rpm) at 4°C, protected from light.
    8. To stop the reaction, add 17 µL of 50% hydroxylamine to each reaction tube and incubate for 30 min at 4°C.
    9. Use Zeba 2 mL Desalt columns (Pierce) in order to remove unreacted dye and exchange buffer to PBS according to the protocol provided by the manufacturer.
    10. Add 30 µL of 25 x protease inhibitor cocktail stock solution.
    11. Prepare 30 µL aliquots and store protected from light at -20°C.

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History

Created by chschroe on 2010-11-25.

References

  1. Dual-color proteomic profiling of complex samples with a microarray of 810 cancer-related antibodies. ,
    Author: Schröder C, Jacob A, Tonack S, Radon TP, Sill M, Zucknick M, Rüffer S, Costello E, Neoptolemos JP, Crnogorac-Jurcevic T, Bauer A, Fellenberg K, Hoheisel JD. | Date: May 2010
  2. Antibody Microarrays for Expression Analysis ,
    Author: Schröder C, Jacob A, Rüffer S, Fellenberg K, Hoheisel JD | Date: March 2010
  3. Broken reference

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