This is kind of a trivial question, less technical than the usual, but I'm just wondering what people's thoughts are on whether it is worth trying to recover spilled protein. I recently finished purifying some TEV protease which I needed for another purification, and I had 62 mg of it in solution in a 50 ml Falcon tube, until I dropped it on the bench. All I could do was watch it spread out across the bench, although I considered trying to suck it up or soak it up in something absorbent to recover it, but I was advised to just "let it go". It's not a difficult purification, so I can repeat it, but has anyone spilled important protein and successfully recovered it, using some clever methods?
Sincerely, Paul Phelan Tufts University Boston _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
