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Gel electrophoresis

About: Gel electrophoresis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26026 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1113565 citations.


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01 Nov 1977-Cell
TL;DR: A simple and sensitive method for detecting, sizing and mapping RNA transcripts from viral or cloned DNAs has been developed and used to examine the cytoplasmic transcripts produced during the early phase of adenovirus 2 (Ad2) infection of HeLa cells.

2,367 citations

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TL;DR: A procedure is described for the large-scale purification of light (L) and heavy (H) chain mRNAs from plasmacytomas produced in mice by oligo(dT)-cellulose chromatography and either sucrose gradient centrifugation in conditions preventing aggregation or by means of high-resolution preparative gel electrophoresis under non-denaturing conditions.
Abstract: A procedure is described for the large-scale purification of light (L) and heavy (H) chain mRNAs from plasmacytomas produced in mice. Intact RNA is selectively precipitated in high yield from frozen tumors homogenized in 3 M LiCl and 6 M urea. L and H-chain mRNAs were purified by oligo(dT)-cellulose chromatography and either sucrose gradient centrifugation in conditions preventing aggregation or by means of high-resolution preparative gel electrophoresis under non-denaturing conditions. γ2a and α H-chain mRNAs sedimented as major components at 15.5 S and 16.5 S respectively, when L-chain mRNAs sedimented as 12-S species. H-chain mRNAs isolated by continuous elution during preparative gel electrophoresis were completely separated from both L-chain mRNA and residual 18-S rRNA, and migrated as single components of 1900 ± 50 nucleotides on analytical denaturing gels. The partially purified H-chain mRNAs were translated into major components of molecular weights of 56000 (γ2a) and 60000 (α) in an mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysate, whereas L-chain mRNAs yielded polypeptides of molecular weights of 25000 (λ) and 27000 (к). Up to 95% of the translation products directed by the purified mRNAs were immunoprecipitated using specific antisera. The purity of L and H-chain mRNAs was assessed by hybridization of corresponding cDNAs with excess recombinant plasmid DNA. The results indicated a minimum purity of 47% (γ2a), 62% (α), for H-chain mRNAs and 60% (к), for L-chain mRNAs.

2,356 citations

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TL;DR: A high resolution gel electrophoresis of histone is described, capable of distinguishing between histone fractions whose mobilities differ by as little as 1% under the conditions of pH and urea concentration employed.

2,292 citations

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TL;DR: The percentage recovery of functional activity depended on the respective protein complex studied and was zero for some complexes, but almost quantitative for others, and the recovery of all respiratory chain complexes was almost quantitative.

2,261 citations

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TL;DR: DIGE is reproducible, sensitive, and can detect an exogenous difference between two Drosophila embryo extracts at nanogram levels and was detected after 15 min of induction and identified using DIGE preparatively.
Abstract: We describe a modification of two-dimensional (2-D) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis that requires only a single gel to reproducibly detect differences between two protein samples. This was accomplished by fluorescently tagging the two samples with two different dyes, running them on the same 2-D gel, post-run fluorescence imaging of the gel into two images, and superimposing the images. The amine reactive dyes were designed to insure that proteins common to both samples have the same relative mobility regardless of the dye used to tag them. Thus, this technique, called difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE), circumvents the need to compare several 2-D gels. DIGE is reproducible, sensitive, and can detect an exogenous difference between two Drosophila embryo extracts at nanogram levels. Moreover, an inducible protein from E. coli was detected after 15 min of induction and identified using DIGE preparatively.

2,220 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202364
2022116
2021108
2020104
2019120
2018147