Silver stain method
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Vorum silver stain method
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Silver stain method
Vorum Silver Stain Method
Fix 2-18 hrs. (50% MeOH/12% HoAc, 0.05% formalin), 1 liter/gel
Wash three times in 35% EtOH/water for 20 min
Wash twice in distilled water for 10 minutes
Sensitize 2 min with 0.5L of 100 mM sodium thiosulfate, 30 mM potassium ferricyanide
Wash in 0.5 L water for 10 min. four times
Stain 20 min. with 1 L 0.2% silver nitrate, 0.076% formalin
Wash in water 1 min. twice
Develop till dark enough with 1 L of 6% sodium carbonate, 0.05% formalin, 0.0004% sodium thiosulfate
Stop 5 min. with 1 L of 50% MeOH/12% HoAC
Store in 1% HoAc/water Desiderio Silver Destain
Water 5 min (3X)
Destain whole gel 15 min. with 1:1 v/v 30mM potassium ferricyanide and 100 mM
sodium thiosulfate prepared fresh
Water 5 min. (10X)
Proceed to Vorum procedure and fix for 2 hrs and redo silver stain
*Destain is useful if background darkens faster than the protein bands or if the gel is not stopped quickly enough and is generally too dark.
Vorum and Blum procedures: presented at 48th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry June 11-15 2000, Long Beach, CA, poster TPE 191.
Desiderio procedure: R.R. Becklin, E.S. Umstor, D.M. Desiderio, poster WPF 216, 48th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry June 11-15 2000, Long Beach, CA
For an excellent comparison of visible staining procedures see:
Lin JF, Chen QX, Tian HY, Gao X, Yu ML, Xu GJ, Zhao FK. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2008 Apr;390(7):1765-73.
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