Team:Marburg/Protocols/Protocol27

Congo Red Staining

  • grow cells on plate
  • transfer some cells into 2 mL Eppendorf tube
  • resuspend cells in 1 mL PBS
  • transfer 100 µL into well plate
  • mess OD600
  • add 100 µL of 15% Congo red solution to the cells
  • incubate (1h, 37 °C)
  • centrifuge (4000 rpm, 5min)
  • transfer 100 µL of supernatant into 96 well plate
  • mess absorption at 490nm

Normalize your results:
(Abs490,blank – Abs490) / (OD600 – OD600,Blank)

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