Efficient and reproducible protein enrichment is a prerequisite for the proteomic analysis of highly dilute solutions like culture supernatant or body fluids. Traditionally several precipitation strategies were used for this purpose, but they have certain drawbacks. Here, a protocol for StrataClean enrichment-a very efficient and easy-to-use method for the enrichment of proteins from highly dilute samples-which is compatible to gel-free proteomics, is presented.
Keywords: Highly dilute samples; Protein enrichment; Solid-phase enrichment; StrataClean.