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Acetone Milk Lab

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Utilizing Acetone Powder of Several Organs to Compare Specific Proteins and Measure L-Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity Abstract Animal organs contain a diverse amount of proteins that define their function. In this study, acetone powder solutions of calf liver, bovine pancreas, chicken muscle, porcine kidney, porcine brain, and porcine heart were analyzed through an SDS-Page gel to determine diversity of proteins and through an LDH assay to determine enzymatic activity. It was found that chicken breast muscle contained the most diverse collection of proteins along with the highest LDH activity. This made reasonable sense considering that the chicken breast muscle is composed of many different classes of actin and myosin proteins and that …show more content…

Measuring Protein Concentration of Extract Using the Bradford Method Protein concentration needed to be determined to assure that SDS-PAGE would work effectively since too high or too low protein concentration of each sample would result in erroneous gels. Before measuring the protein concentration in the acetone powder solutions, a BSA curve needed to be created to find a conversion factor. In the BSA curve, there appeared to be a positive correlation between absorbance (A) and the amount of BSA protein (μg) when observing the best fit line (Figure 1). This was confirmed with a slope or conversion factor of 0.0255 A595/μg (Figure 1). To determine protein concentration in the acetone powder suspensions, three representative samples in the range of the BSA standard curve were chosen to determine the amount of protein in each solution. The largest protein concentration was found in the bovine pancreas tissue (6.130 ± 1.05418 mg/mL), while the calf liver had the smallest protein concentration (0.003 mg/mL) (Table 1). The chicken breast muscle solution had the largest concentration of protein (2.335 mg/mL) after the solutions were adjusted for gel loading (Table …show more content…

The chicken breast muscle had the highest number of proteins present (13), while the porcine kidney had the least (3) amount present (Table 2). The protein with the largest mass appeared to be the first protein in the chicken breast muscle lane at 192.5 kDa (Table 2). There was also a trend that two protein bands with an apparent mass of 64.6 ± 2.67 kDa and 78.5 ± 2.13 kDa appeared in each of the different acetone powder lanes (Table 2). The protein with the smallest mass was found in the calf liver at 17.0 kDa (Table

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