In article <[email protected]>, 
[email protected] says...
> 
> Hello,  I am able to enrich and immunoprecipitate a very large glycoprotein
> from human epithelial cells. I suspect that it undergoes  ectodomain
> shedding as I can detect it in the media. To analyze trafficking I
> attempted to use S35 labeling which repeatedly failed with only background
> bands showing up on the radiogram.  Various pre-clearing steps to reduce
> background did not help. Is it possible that S35 pulse chase is simply not
> suitable to study proteins expressed at very low levels? Does Cycloheximide
> chase substitute for S35 pulse chase?
> 
> Thank you.

How many Cys and Met does your protein have (in its processed form)? 
Since it is a glycoprotein, you could try radioactively labelled sugars, 
but those are finnicky to use. 
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