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ArticleBioTechniques2025

Freezing diluted bovine serum albumin standards does not significantly affect standard curves.

Rachelle Sheets, Bhavik Rajaboina, Caitlin E Bromberg, Liam P Curtin, Mitchell L Haddock, Phillip Stafford, Theresa Currier Thomas, Adrienne C Scheck

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Article in BioTechniques, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Rachelle SheetsDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Bhavik RajaboinaDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Caitlin E BrombergDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Liam P CurtinDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Mitchell L HaddockDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Phillip StaffordSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Theresa Currier ThomasDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Adrienne C ScheckDepartment of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3497-1895

Funding

Electrochemical assessment of behaviorally relevant circuit function after TBIR01NS100793 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI THOMAS, THERESA CURRIER · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100793
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Total protein isolation followed by quantitation using a colorimetric method, such as the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay is a common laboratory protocol. Protein concentrations are determined by comparing extracted samples to a standard curve generated from serial dilutions of a reference protein, such as bovine serum albumin (BSA). This study aimed to identify the most reproducible and accurate method for quantifying protein concentrations in an experimental series over time. We analyzed the effect of serial freeze-thaws, inter-person and intra-person variability in standard preparation and assay execution. Absorbance was measured at 565 nanometers (nm) using an Epoch Microplate Spectrophotometer (Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA) with Gen5 Data Analysis software. The most consistent and accurate method for determining the protein concentrations over time is to prepare a large batch of diluted BSA standards, aliquot them into small portions, and store them frozen.

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Serum Albumin, BovineAnimalsCattleColorimetryFreezingHumansReference StandardsReproducibility of ResultsSerum Albumin, BovineBicinchoninic acid (BCA) assaybovine serum albumin (BSA)freeze-thawprotein quantificationstandard curve

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PMID40407044
PMCPMC12222612

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