Immunoprecipitation with Agarose-Immobilized Antibody

Procedure

1. Place 500 mcl of the pooled cell lysate (1-3 mg/ml) into a 1.5 ml micro-centrifuge tube.
2. To this tube add 15-25 mcl of gel slurry of the Agarose-immobilized Antibody. (For best results, optimal amounts of lysate and slurry should be empirically defined.)
3. Rotate the immunoprecipitation reactions (end-to-end) for 3 hours at room temperature or overnight at 4 C.
4. Centrifuge (200 x g; 5 minutes) to pellet the complex.
5. Remove the supernatant and add 500 mcl cold cell lysis buffer. Centrifuge (200 x g; 5 minutes).
6. Repeat wash step 6 twice more. After each centrifugation remove as much of the supernatant as possible.
7. After removing the supernatant from the third wash, add 40 mcl of freshly prepared 1X sample buffer to each tube and heat at 90 °C for 5 minutes.
8. Load 8 to 16 mcl (20 to 40% of the IP reaction) to a polyacrylamide gel.

Note: For optimal results, complete reduction of the sample is required. We recommend the use of 0.1 M DTT in SDS-PAGE sample buffer and immediately heating samples, loading and running gels. We use 4X sample buffer from Invitrogen (cat#NP0007) to which DTT is added.