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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">An interacting system<a></a> should not run as a complex and free components unless there are slow kinetics or incompetent monomers. If the affinity is low then you shouldn't see the fully associated complex. You didn't mention
the method but I presume its c(s) which can turn a trailing tail of a reaction boundary into multiple peaks. Doesn't mean its free components. To know any of this will confidence you must do a concentration series, changing ratios, and doing direct boundary
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font face="tahoma">The ribosome story (I presume you mean 30s<a></a> + 50s<a></a> to 70s<a></a>) is complicated<a></a> by the presence of tight and loose couples, meaning a difference in Mg dependence with one fraction assembling
at ~2 mM<a></a> Mg and another fraction at 12 mM<a></a> Mg. This gives rise to three peaks at 30, 50 and 70s<a></a>. The 30s<a></a> is a slower trailing<a></a> component that you might see with excess component, but most of the 30 and 50s<a></a> material
is actually due to nonreacting<a></a> loose couples. This is why I stress you must fit the reaction boundary data to a reversible and or kinetic model.</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> rasmb-bounces@rasmb.bbri.org [rasmb-bounces@rasmb.bbri.org] On Behalf Of Mark Agacan [M.Agacan@dundee.ac.uk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 07, 2010 6:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> rasmb@rasmb.bbri.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RASMB] dissociation of multiprotein complex in ultracentrifuge<br>
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<div>Very often when I run a velocity experiment at 45 K rpm with a multiprotein complex, I see peaks with MW values corresponding to the complex, and also to many of the individual components of the complex. I have read the RASMB archives on the issue of
pressure-induced dissociation of sedimenting ribosomes. Do other people find this is happening for multiprotein complexes, perhaps those that are very weakly associated?
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