Bio-Rad envisions that the Precision Plus Protein WesternC standard will become the leading western blotting standard in all areas of biological research.
Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the release of a broad-range, prestained chemiluminescent protein standard and a chemiluminescent detection kit for protein sizing and expression analysis.
The Precision Plus Protein WesternC standards offers ten prestained protein bands that can also be detected through chemiluminescent western blotting.
The Immun-Star WesternC kit is a complementary chemiluminescent detection kit that is optimised for CCD imaging of the WesternC standards and protein samples.
Currently, Bio-Rad offers a sample size of both the WesternC standard and the Immun-Star WesternC kit.
Bio-Rad envisions that the Precision Plus Protein WesternC standard will become the leading western blotting standard in all areas of biological research.
The complementing Immun-Star WesternC kit will further establish Bio-Rad as a leading provider of protein standards and allow users to visualise the standards on CCD imagers, it says.
The Precision Plus Protein WesternC Standard.
Applicable for all 1D gel electrophoresis experiments, the Precision Plus Protein WesternC Standard combines the convenience of prestained bands with western blot detection.
This allows users to monitor electrophoresis progress, assess transfer efficiency and direct visualisation of the WesternC standards through Western blotting.
The Precision Plus Protein WesternC standard offers ten prestained protein bands over the same broad range as all Precision Plus Protein standards, ie, from 10 to 250kD.
The 25, 50 and 75kD bands are stained pink for easy band reference and blot orientation, with all other bands prestained blue.
Each standard has an integral Strep-tag sequence to enable parallel detection on western blots using StrepTactin-HRP conjugates, also provided by Bio-Rad.
Optimized for CCD imagers, the Precision Plus Protein WesternC standards are the sharpest in the industry and ideal for visualization of blots, production of publication-quality images of bands on blots, and accurate molecular weight estimation direction from acquired blot images.
To utilise and complement the Precision Plus Protein WesternC standards, the Immun-Star WesternC kit is specifically designed for CCD imagers.
The Immun-Star WesternC kit generates an intense signal immediately that is easily captured and repeatedly imaged by CCD cameras such as Bio-Rad's Molecular Imager VersaDoc and ChemiDoc XRS Systems.
The Immun-Star WesternC kit allows researchers to take full advantage of the features offered by their imaging instruments.
