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    Nuclear Fraction Marker
    Posted by: Larus50sce (IP Hidden, New member, 2)
    Date: April 28, 2005 01:54PM

    I am trying to fractionate SH-SY5Y cells (human neuroblastoma cell line) into
    cytosol and soluble nuclear fractions, and I need to
    find a protein for which I could immunoblot to check
    that I didn't contaminate the fractions with each other. I use tubulin as a cytoplasm marker, but I am having trouble coming up with a nuclear fraction marker - something specifically
    localized to the nucleus, and absent in the
    cytoplasm.  Histones would be the obvious choice, but I am lysing the cells by swelling on ice in different amounts of Triton-X-100 (0.1% for cytosol, 1% for the nuclei) because I need the lysate for immunoprecipitation and RT-PCR, so my lysis conditions may be too mild to release histones into the soluble nuclear fraction. Does anybody have a suggestion for a
    good nuclear fraction marker?  What do other people use in such circumstances?
    Thanks a lot.

     

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    Re: Nuclear Fraction Marker
    Posted by: 5'-ATCG (IP Hidden, Unregistered user, )
    Date: April 28, 2005 06:24PM

    Another hallmark is laminin B.

     

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    Re: Nuclear Fraction Marker
    Posted by: Larus50sce (IP Hidden, New member, 2)
    Date: April 29, 2005 11:22AM

    Laminin is an extacellular matrix protein, as far as I know. How is it a marker of the nuclear fraction? Is it present in the nuclear matrix also?

     

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    Re: Nuclear Fraction Marker
    Posted by: 5'-ATCG (IP Hidden, Unregistered user, )
    Date: April 29, 2005 03:05PM

    Please check the literatures......."laminin-B" in the nuclear lamina.
    Don't get confused with laminin-1 or laminin-domain or laminin repeats......

    Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 1999, 277: G1207-G1216;
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 2003, 197: 181 - 188;
    Neuropathology & Applied Neurobiology 2004, 30: 315...

    and many many more..................................................

     

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    Re: Nuclear Fraction Marker
    Posted by: aniu1229 (IP Hidden, New member, 8)
    Date: July 11, 2005 10:12AM

    I noticed that there are lamin A, B and C, many kinds of antibody available in santacruz. do you know what is the difference among them?
    Because I saw in the paper, someone used Lamin B as nuclear marker, while someone used laminA/C.
    if you go through the catalog of santacruz, you will find that some lamin localized in nuclear envelop, while some localized all over the nucleus.
    so do u think which one is better to be used as a marker?
    whether proteins localizing to the nuclear envelop will be easy to go to cytoplasm?

     

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