[RASMB] Help needed

[Sen Indrani]

 Dear RASMB members,
   I am a PhD student at ETH Zurich and have encountered a problem in my sedimentation velocity experiment run which goes as follows:

I am trying to determine the dissociation constant of a dimeric protein. I am using Fluorescence Sedimentation Velocity. I had measured the protein once immidietly after purification with 2-3hrs of incubation ( including sample preparation time ) at 22°C . At that point the protein had yielded a value of Kd = 60nM. But when I repeated the experiment with the same batch of protein afetr 6months I couldn't reproduce the result and got a tigther Kd( less than 5nM). I even made a fresh preparation of the protein and the result was the same giving a tighter Kd. The only differences in the experiments where the incubation time before start of the run. For the latter cases the protein was incubated for over 16hrs or longer. So my question is that could be that the equilibrium shifts during this incubation time. If yes , what kind of experiments can be done to make sure that the Kd for dimerization is indeed incubation time dependent. Please could you suggest any literature in this respect as well.

It would be of great help if anybody could help me out. I am really struggling with this problem . With regards to the data quality , I admit there is a difference ( the recent data is better ) , but I wouldn't imagine that it would produce such dramatic effect on the properties of the protein.

Looking forward to your reply,
Please write to me if you have any further questions.

Thanking you,
Regards
Indrani
PhD student




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