Why do Protein Normalization?
Planning on publishing your research findings? Then you know scientific journals and peer reviewers need to see some type of total protein characterization that validates your data. They're also asking scientists to move away from housekeeping proteins (HKP) because their expressions are inconsistent and unreliable. That's where protein normalization (PN) assays on Jess come in. They give you a more consistent, robust way to determine protein content.
Protein Normalization vs Housekeeping Proteins
Comparative total protein data and the expression of the housekeeping protein β-actin in six human whole tissue lysates loaded on an equal protein basis (0.3 mg/mL).
Protein Normalization on Jess
Meet Jess
Gel-free, blot-free, hands-free Simple Westerns™ let you separate and analyze proteins by size from 2–440 kDa either by immunoassay or total protein analysis. You'll get quantitative results, reproducibility that's spot on, and use less sample in the process.
Experimental prep only takes 30 minutes—just load your samples and reagents into our microplate. Jess handles the rest: antibody additions, incubations, washes, immunodetection and analysis. Fully analyzed results are ready in 3 hours.
Traditional Western Blot vs. Simple Western PN
Here's what you don't have to deal with:
Hands-on staining
Wash steps
Gels or membranes
Methanol
There's also some added bonuses:
Keep all your detection channels
Only one reagent
Get going in seconds
Completely automated assays
How Simple Western PN Works
With Jess, you can run PN assays with the immunoassays you'd already be doing. It's just one extra reagent to mix, and one extra row to pipette on the plate. Jess needs an extra 30 minutes to run the PN assay for you, but once she's done you'll have all the data you need.
PN assay label binds reliably to any amine group
- Proprietary molecule developed with Tocris Bioscience
- No antibody interference
- No cross-talk
PN, IR, NIR and chemiluminescent detection at the same time
Total protein detection happens in the same capillary on the same sample, but runs on a separate channel from NIR so you get to keep your existing IR, NIR and chemiluminescence channels. Jess' same-time detection also gives you more consistent, reliable results than traditional assays without having to stain and wash a single blot!
One-stop data processing
Compass software gives you all the processing tools you need for protein analysis and normalization.
Automatic data analysis
Once the assays are done, no need to export the data for analysis. Jess' Compass software analyzes the data for you. It also transforms your raw data into normalized data automatically.
Only with Compass: Overlay PN with your targets
Compass lets you look at all your data with a single click: traditional lane view, quantitated total protein values or relative differences to your reference point.
Lane view of protein normalization on Jess in Compass for Simple Western Software. Shown are three options for visualization: the traditional total protein "membrane stain" (left); dot overlay of the raw total protein area measured in each "lane" (middle); dot overlay of the normalized percent total protein area measured relative to the chosen reference "lane" or capillary (right), in this case the 1 mg/mL sample.
Export and done
Compass export options let you pick multiple formats to process your data using external programs like Microsoft© Excel©, Spotfire, JMP and others.
Comparative data showing 14-3-3 gamma protein expression (blue) and the normalized counterpart (orange) in various concentrations of Jurkat cell lysate.
Simple Westerns on Jess
Download our Tech Note to learn more about protein normalization on Jess. Did you know she also gives you four different ways to analyze proteins—simultaneously?
- Fluorescence detection with multiplexing gives you all the info you need in one shot—no stripping and reprobing.
- Chemiluminescence detection for the picogram-level sensitivity you need on those low abundance proteins and precious samples.
- Protein normalization lets you see if your samples contain a consistent protein load.
- Blot imaging whenever you want to run a traditional chemiluminescent Westerns.
Traditional Western Blot vs. Simple Western PN
Here's what you don't have to deal with:
Hands-on staining
Wash steps
Gels or membranes
Methanol
There's also some added bonuses:
Keep all your detection channels
Only one reagent
Get going in seconds
Completely automated assays
How Simple Western PN Works
With Jess, you can run PN assays with the immunoassays you'd already be doing. It's just one extra reagent to mix, and one extra row to pipette on the plate. Jess needs an extra 30 minutes to run the PN assay for you, but once she's done you'll have all the data you need.
PN assay label binds reliably to any amine group
- Proprietary molecule developed with Tocris Bioscience
- No antibody interference
- No cross-talk
PN, IR, NIR and chemiluminescent detection at the same time
Total protein detection happens in the same capillary on the same sample, but runs on a separate channel from NIR so you get to keep your existing IR, NIR and chemiluminescence channels. Jess' same-time detection also gives you more consistent, reliable results than traditional assays without having to stain and wash a single blot!
One-stop data processing
Compass software gives you all the processing tools you need for protein analysis and normalization.
Automatic data analysis
Once the assays are done, Compass transforms your raw data into normalized data automatically.
Only with Compass: Overlay PN with your targets
Look at PN data on the fly—lane view, quantitated total protein values or relative differences to your reference point—all with a single click.
Lane view of protein normalization on Jess in Compass for Simple Western Software. Shown are three options for visualization: the traditional total protein "membrane stain" (left); dot overlay of the raw total protein area measured in each "lane" (middle); dot overlay of the normalized percent total protein area measured relative to the chosen reference "lane" or capillary (right), in this case the 1 mg/mL sample.
Export and done
You can process PN data in external programs like Microsoft© Excel©, Spotfire, JMP and others. Just export data the same way you do now.
Comparative data showing 14-3-3 gamma protein expression (blue) and the normalized counterpart (orange) in various concentrations of Jurkat cell lysate.
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