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Eppendorf BioSpectrometer basic User Manual

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Eppendorf BioSpectrometer

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Tab. 7-2:

Parameter in General Method Parameter

Parameter

Explanation

Proteins

These parameters are loaded into the method parameters when a protein
is selected during the programming of a method in the

Dye labels and

Proteins direct UV groups.

• Protein name

• Factor

• A

0.1%

• Ext.coeff.

• Molecular mass

In order to define a factor for calculating the concentration on the basis of
the absorbance, enter the following data in addition to the name and
wavelength:
Factor

or A

0.1%

or absorbance coefficient and molar mass.

Nucleic acids

These parameters are loaded into the method parameters when a nucleic
acid is selected during the programming of a method in the

Dye labels

group.

• NA name

• Factor

• Double-stranded

The factor is used to calculate the concentration on the basis of the
absorbance.
The double-stranded parameter affects the calculation of the molar
nucleic acid concentration. (see

Conversion to molar concentrations and

nucleic acid quantities on p. 94)

Dyes

These parameters are loaded into the method parameters when a dye is
selected during the programming of a method in the

Dye labels group.

• Dye name

• Wavelength

• Ext.coeff.

• Factor

• Corr. A260

• Corr. A280

In order to define a factor for calculating the concentration on the basis of
the absorbance, enter the following data in addition to the name:
Factor

or absorbance coefficient.

The correction factors for the absorbance values at 260 or 280

nm

are

used when the correction function in the method parameters is active. For
more details, refer to the chapter on evaluation (see

Correction A

260

and

correction A

280

on p. 93).

Units

You can select a unit from all available units when programming method
parameters.

• Unit

Entering a unit that has not yet been programmed for the concentration
result.

• Specifications for proteins which are not preset at the factory can be determined in the

expasy database: http://www.expasy.org/tools/protparam.html.

• A table with A

1%

values for many proteins can also be found in: C.N.Pace et al., Protein

Science (1995), 4: 2411–2423 (Table 5). The A

1%

values must be multiplied by 0.1 to

return the required A

0.1%

values.