802. Identifying Ovalbumin by the Western Press-Blot (EXP-802)
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Chicken egg white contains a variety of proteins including ovalbumin, conalbumin, ovomucoid and lysozyme. In this exercise, students use the western press-blot procedure to characterize chicken ovalbumin and then to determine if the protein is found in egg whites from turkey and quail.