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Plant Protein Extraction
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- Project Question: Hi, my name is Esmeralda. I am a student in a medical and biotechnology academy at my school. I am currently working on a science fair project involving the Mimosa Pudica. I will try to identify the proteins that make the plant close and droop, when touched. My question is: What would be the most efficient method in gene transformation,? This is to see if you can place the proteins from the Mimosa plant into other plants as well. Thank you for your time.
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Plant Protein Extraction
My science fair project involves plant protein isolation/extraction. I would like to know what would be the best method in isolating/extracting a plant protein. Thank you for your advice.
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Re: Plant Protein Extraction
Hi,
My answer is going to depend on whether you are doing this project at home or in a lab with supervision. I could describe a procedure but unless you had the instruments and chemicals to do it that's not going to help you. Protein isolation and detection is really a procedure that needs to be done in a lab because you need several different chemicals, pipetters, a centrifuge, gel electrophoresis set-up, etc.
Usually the first step in doing any extraction is to break up the material thoroughly and plants are difficult in this regard because of all the fibrous parts and the cellulose in the cell walls.
What plant are you using and what part are you trying to extract proteins from? Also, what is your purpose in doing this extraction? Are you trying to isolate a specific protein or just all proteins?
The first step after grinding up the plant material is usually to separate proteins from nucleic acids--RNA and DNA, but if you just want to do a simple chemical indicator test for protein then you could use a procedure like this one: http://csmbio.csm.jmu.edu/biology/cours ... lation.htm
Repost with more information about where you plan to do this work and exactly what you are trying to accomplish and why. That way we will be able to answer your questions better.
Sybee
My answer is going to depend on whether you are doing this project at home or in a lab with supervision. I could describe a procedure but unless you had the instruments and chemicals to do it that's not going to help you. Protein isolation and detection is really a procedure that needs to be done in a lab because you need several different chemicals, pipetters, a centrifuge, gel electrophoresis set-up, etc.
Usually the first step in doing any extraction is to break up the material thoroughly and plants are difficult in this regard because of all the fibrous parts and the cellulose in the cell walls.
What plant are you using and what part are you trying to extract proteins from? Also, what is your purpose in doing this extraction? Are you trying to isolate a specific protein or just all proteins?
The first step after grinding up the plant material is usually to separate proteins from nucleic acids--RNA and DNA, but if you just want to do a simple chemical indicator test for protein then you could use a procedure like this one: http://csmbio.csm.jmu.edu/biology/cours ... lation.htm
Repost with more information about where you plan to do this work and exactly what you are trying to accomplish and why. That way we will be able to answer your questions better.
Sybee