Modification of the silver staining technique to detect lipopolysaccharide in polyacrylamide gels - PubMed (original) (raw)

Modification of the silver staining technique to detect lipopolysaccharide in polyacrylamide gels

A Fomsgaard et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1990 Dec.

Abstract

A silver staining method used routinely for detecting bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels (C. Tsai and E. Frasch, Anal. Biochem. 119:115-119, 1982) appeared to be inappropriate for visualizing certain LPS preparations. It did not stain S-form fractions of polyagglutinable Pseudomonas aeruginosa LPS or several partly deacylated (alkali-treated) S-form LPS after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. However, these LPS preparations could be detected by anti-LPS sera after electroblotting onto nitrocellulose, thereby confirming their integrity and presence in the polyacrylamide gel. This is because LPS fractions containing a low number of fatty acids are washed out of the gel during the initial fixing step (40% ethanol-4% acetic acid, overnight). By omitting this fixing step, which was originally developed for detecting proteins, and by increasing the LPS oxidation time (from 5 to 20 min), we restored the ability to detect LPS fractions that otherwise would not be stained. These modifications did not affect the detection of other S- and R-form LPSs. Thus, differences in the number of fatty acids present in polyagglutinable P. aeruginosa LPS may result in a selective loss of fatty acid-deficient S-form LPS in these apparent R-form LPS preparations. This modified procedure provides a fast, simple, and sensitive way to analyze LPS in polyacrylamide gels despite the number of acyl groups present.

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Modification of the silver staining technique to detect lipopolysaccharide in polyacrylamide gels - PubMed (original) (raw)