Comparison of different membranes for use in the colony-immunoblot technique |
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Authors: | L Rodrigue M C Lavoie |
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Institution: | Département de biochimie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. |
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Abstract: | We compared five different supports (Whatman paper filters Nos. 1, 5, and 40, nitrocellulose, and Nylon 66) for their suitability in the colony-immunoblot (CIB) technique. Results indicate that Whatman No. 5 filter paper recovered 94-98% of the bacterial colonies tested, were more resistant to tearing than the other Whatman papers tested, and showed reduced cross-reactions as compared with nitrocellulose membranes. Whatman No. 5 filters are 20 times less expensive than the nitrocellulose membranes usually used in the CIB technique. We thus adopted the former for our ecological studies of the murine oral cavity. |
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