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The absorbance of contaminant proteins was assumed to be 1.1 for a 1 mg/mL solution.
The cleaning process for this contaminant involved a worker pouring 7.6 liters (2 gal) of methylene chloride into a tote, tipping and rolling it, releasing the lid to "degassify" it (as the manager explained it), getting into the tote and scraping for eight hours a day for three days.
A question that arises in analyzing eukaryotic sequences with strong matches to bacterial proteins, especially when the match is unique, is whether the gene in question truly was isolated from a eukaryote, or whether it represents a prokaryotic contaminant (any nucleic acid matches of ESTs to prokaryotes, which probably would be contaminants, were removed before database submission [ 28 ] ). Claims of nematode genes having been acquired by HGT [ 17 18 19 23 ] have addressed this issue in a number of ways.
(5) Spread of the contaminant: standard deviation = 2.0.
The final purification step, utilizing a hydroxylapatite column, has been previously used with rhodopsin [ 11 ] . This column proved to be more efficient as a final step in the purification than as a preliminary one, because large amounts of contaminant protein tended to slow the flow rate drastically.