Another attempt to determine appropriate amounts of anti-HSP70 Ab (ABR cat# MA3-006)and/or protein needed for better detection of HSP70 in Gigas protein samples. Gigas gill protein extracts from 20080617 (both control and Vibrio exposure samples) were each pooled. The two samples were mixed with an equal volume of 2x sample reducing buffer. 100uL of hemolymph were extracted from Gigas muscles and mixed with an equal volume of 2x sample reducing buffer. Samples were boiled for 5mins. and loaded onto a Pierce 4-20% tris-hepes gel. Also loaded 10uL of SeeBlue ladder. Ran gel @ 150V for 45mins. Samples were transferred to nitrocellulose 20V for 30mins. Well locations were marked on the membrane with a pencil. Gel was stained with Coomassie stain for 30 mins and then destained with 10% acetic acid until bands were clearly visible.

Lane 1 – Ladder
Lane 2 – Control (20ug)
Lane 3 – VE (20ug)
Lane 4 – Hemos (40uL)
Lane 5 – Control (10ug)
Lane 6 – VE (10ug)
Lane 7 – Hemos (20uL)

Lane 8 – Control (20ug)
Lane 9 – VE (20ug)
Lane 10 – Hemos (40uL)
Lane 11 – Control (10ug)
Lane 12 – VE (10ug)

Membrane was cut in two (between lanes 7 & 8) for probing with two different primary Ab concentrations: 1:5000 (per the manufacturer’s suggestion) and 1:2500. Membranes were incubated 1hr. in 15 mL of blocking solution. Primary Ab was added at the two above mentioned concentrations to the respective membrane and incubated 1hr. Membranes were washed with 1x TBS-T 3 x 10mins. Secondary Ab (DAM-HRP) was added with blocking solution to the membranes at a 1:2500 dilution and incubated 30mins. Membranes were washed with 1x TBS-T 3 x 10mins. Membranes were developed with Millipore Immobilon Western Chemiluminescent reagent and imaged together.

Results:

No image of any sort! Not even the pencil marks were visible. Just a blank screen. I’m starting to suspect that something is wrong with the imaging system or something. This is basically a repeat of the Western on 20081210 which worked. Now I’m not sure what to do at all. This blows.