calculation help - see topic (Jun/30/2011 )
whatisscience? on Tue Jul 5 13:59:51 2011 said:
pito on Fri Jul 1 14:44:18 2011 said:
whatisscience? on Fri Jul 1 13:08:47 2011 said:
pito on Thu Jun 30 21:57:23 2011 said:
just a quick example to show what I mean, I only changed the numbers to make it easier, but you can redo it with the correct numbers:
1mg strep requires 2 moles of biotin, knowing that M of biotin is 244g/mol, this means we need 488 gram of biotin but now we need to know how much antibody this is.. and here comes the question about that concentration. Does it say Antibody concentration: 100ug (1mg/ml)as in: 1mg biotin for each ml or is it just the antibody itself or the antibody + the biotin?
I cant imagine its just the antibody itself.. but I dont work with antibodies, so I dont know how they do it...
check this.
its the antibody concentration 1mg/ml. But there are usually 3-6 biotin molecules per antibody
Eum, I havent really worked with antibodies, so maybe there is a general rule to calculate it then?
But you do understand my problem with the calculation?
If you calculate the amount of biotin , you still dont know how to relate it to the antibody.. this is where I get stuck.. since I dont work with antibodies.
Dont you know anything else from the antibody? molecular mass or?
molecular mass of ab is 150,000 Daltons
Allright.
OK, there are 2 ways to solve this.
Either you start from a fixed amount, mass (or volume) of strept or you start from a fixed amount of Antibody.
I dont know which you prefer so I start with a fixed amount of antibody.
You said that you have 100µg of antibody at a concentration of 1mg/ml.
We know that tha AB is 150dalton = 150 gram/mol
So 150gram = 1mol
100µg = 6,667 x 10^-7 moles
now if we have 6,667 x 10^-7 moles of antibody, we have 6 times this amount of biotine since we have 6 biotine molecules per 1 molecule AB...
6,667 x 10^-7 moles times 6 = 4 x 10^-6 moles biotine
we know that 2.10^-9 mol biotine is 1mg strept.
So 4 x 10^-6 moles of biotine = 2000mg strep = 2gram strept.
And we also know:
Concentration of strept mag bead : 0.1% w/v
Amount of beads in vial: 2mL
which means we have 0,002 gram strept per vial so we need 1000 vials for our 100µg AB.
this is a bit too much I think.
Are you sure its 0,1 % ? because this seems very low.
Now the other method is the other way around.
Lets start with a fixed amount of strept.
Lets take 1 vial , 1 vial equals 0,002mg of strept
so we have 0,002mg strept, for 1mg strept we need 2.10^-9 mol biotine, this makes for 0,002mg a total amount of 4 x 10^-12 mol biotine
4 x 10^-9 mol biotine is 4 x 10^-12 /6 moles of AB (6Biotines for 1 AB) = 6,667 x 10^-13 moles AB
6,667 x 10^-13 moles AB with 150gram/mol
So 1 mol = 150 gram
6,667 x 10^-13 moles = 1,00005 x 10^-10 gram or 0,000100005µg AB.
and you know its 1mg/ml for the antibody so you can find how much ml this is.
Now I dont know what the objective is of this test or what you are trying to do.. but these numbers seem strage..very small...
I dont work with antibodies etc.. so I cant tell you if they are normal or not..
Check the calculations. Maybe I made an error somewhere.
-pito-
Pito,
Sorry for such a late response. But when I said 150,000 daltons I meant 150000 not 150 daltons (sorry for the confusion). So that would cut down our number by a factor 1000 and so we would need 1.90mg of strept = 1.90 mL of strept so we would need only 1 vial per 100ug of antibody right?
-whatisscience?-
whatisscience? on Wed Aug 24 14:49:04 2011 said:
Pito,
Sorry for such a late response. But when I said 150,000 daltons I meant 150000 not 150 daltons (sorry for the confusion). So that would cut down our number by a factor 1000 and so we would need 1.90mg of strept = 1.90 mL of strept so we would need only 1 vial per 100ug of antibody right?
You just need to redo the math with 150000 in stead of 150, so yes, there should a factor 1000 difference.
-pito-