The Pierce™ Albumin/IgG Removal Kit is optimised to decrease the abundant albumin and antibody components of human serum samples in preparation for 2D electrophoresis and other protein profiling methods. By eliminating most of these two proteins, which account for nearly 70% of total serum proteins, other less abundant proteins of interest can be more easily detected and studied.

• Microcentrifuge spin cup method is scaled and optimised for treating 10 µl human serum samples for 2D electrophoresis
• Removes nearly all HSA and IgG, enabling low-abundance proteins to be detected in 2D gels
• Kit processes samples in less than 40 minutes
• Scalable - can use different amounts of affinity resin to match sample volume and concentration

This dye/Protein A-based kit uses a mixture of Cibacron™ Blue Dye and Protein A agarose affinity resin. The dye binds to albumin with relatively good specificity, and Protein A binds to many species and subclasses of IgG. The Pierce Albumin/IgG Removal Kit can be used to treat samples from other species besides human (eg., monkey, swine, rabbit). The kit is also scalable and sufficient to process 25 samples, each containing 600 µg of total serum protein (about 10 µl of serum).