Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
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Blog Post
Published
April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
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Ubiquitously expressed proteins like β-actin or GAPDH are popular choices for loading controls...Western bot of liver lysate (10–40 µg) probed with β-actin (1:2000). Representative of three independent blots... Graphs showing the relative intensity of the β-actin (B) or total protein (C) on the membrane versus ...protein staining is a superior loading control to β-actin for Western blots,” pages 186–188, copyright 2013...difficult to see an increasing concentration of β-actin in panel A. Indeed, the quantification in panel ...-axes between panels B and C, indicating that β-actin is less sensitive as well as less linear than the...protein staining is a superior loading control to β-actin for Western blots. Analytical Biochemistry, 440(...