Molecular Techniques and Methods

Protein Quantitation by Bicinchoninic Acid (BCA) Assay

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INTRODUCTION

Biconchoninic Acid (BCA) Assay is the modification of Lowry method. BCA assay is simple and accurate for determination of protein concentration.




MATERIALS AND SOLUTIONS

Reagent A (100 ml)
1% BCA (4,4'-Dicarboxy-2,2'-biquinoline) ---------------------------- 1 g
2% Na2CO3-H2O ----------------------------------------------------- 2 g
0.16% Sodium tartarate ------------------------------------------------ 0.16 g
0.4% NaOH ----------------------------------------------------------- 0.4 g
0.95% NaHCO3 ------------------------------------------------------- 0.95 g
Add deionized H2O to make a final volume of ------------------------ 100 ml


Reagent B (2 ml)
4% CuSO4-5H2O ----------------------------------------------------- 0.08 g
Add deionized H2O to make a final volume of ------------------------ 2 ml


Reagent C (102 ml)
Reagent A -------------------------------------------------------------- 100 ml
Reagent B -------------------------------------------------------------- 2 ml
  • Store at 4oC. Stable for 1 week.


    2 ug/ul Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA)




    PROCEDURES

    1. Mix the following components into microfuge tubes and make duplicate tubes.


    Tube Number
    2 ug/ul BSA
    Deionized H2O
    Reagent C
    Protein Concentration (ug/ml)
    1
    0
    100 ul
    2 ml
    0
    2
    0.5 ul
    99.5 ul
    2 ml
    10
    3
    1 ul
    99 ul
    2 ml
    20
    4
    2 ul
    98 ul
    2 ml
    40
    5
    3 ul
    97 ul
    2 ml
    60
    6
    4 ul
    96 ul
    2 ml
    80
    7
    5 ul
    95 ul
    2 ml
    100
    Unknown sample
    2 ul
    98 ul
    2 ml
    ------


    2. Incubate at 37oC for 30 minutes.

    3. Cool to room temperature.
    After cooling the sample to room temperature, absorbance continues to increase at about 2.4%/ 10 minutes.

    4. Read the absorbance at 562 nm.

    5. Plot a standard curve of absorbance as a function of initial protein concentration and use it to determine the unknown protein concentrations.




    NOTES




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