[RASMB] Use of SDS to study peptide

[Karen Fleming]

I tried it a couple of times with glycophorin and the high charge 
density of the micelles caused a lot of nonideality in the 
sedimentation profiles. We could never fit the data and so abandoned 
SDS for other detergents. The charge density also causes nonideality in 
fluorescence experiments.
-Karen Fleming
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Damien Thévenin wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I study transmembrane (TM) peptides interaction in various detergents 
> (DPC, C8E5, C14-betaine,...) and I would like to know whether SDS is 
> an suitable detergent for AUC. Indeed, I haven't seen any paper 
> reporting the use of SDS to study TM peptides by AUC. Furthermore, SDS 
> is my detergent of choice when I study these same peptides by CD or 
> fluorescence. So, does SDS have properties that make it unsuitable for 
> AUC?
> Thanks for your help and insights.
>
> Damien
>
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> Damien Thévenin
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