Probing sedimentation non-ideality of particulate systems using analytical centrifugation

Analytical ultracentrifugation: sedimentation velocity and sedimentation equilibrium.

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a versatile and powerful method for the quantitative analysis of macromolecules in solution. AUC has broad applications for the study of biomacromolecules in a wide range of solvents and over a wide range of solute concentrations. Three optical systems are available for the analytical ultracentrifuge (absorbance, interference, and fluorescence) that permi...

Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation

(b) Sedimentation equilibrium: an experiment performed at a lower speed so that the sedimentation and backdiffirsion forces are of comparable magnitudes and therefore give rise to an equilibrium distribution of solute concentration. Because there is no net transport at equilibrium, shape effects do not come into play and the distribution becomes an absolute function of molecular mass for a sing...

Density-Gradient Centrifugation: Non-Ideal Sedimentation and the Interaction of Major and Minor Components.

A small amount of southern bean mosaic virus was contained in a narrow zone after density-gradient centrifugation, but in a much wider zone after centrifugation with a large amount of a second virus. Zone-spreading of a major component by non-ideal sedimentation in density-gradient centrifugation can cause zone spreading of a minor component that the major component overlaps.

Sucrose gradient centrifugation sedimentation standards: a simplified technique.

A method for rapid fractionation of particulate systems by gradient differential centrifugation.

IPIT initial experiments on the fractionation of mitochondria into subparticulate constituents, it became apparent that for isolation of the particles, a method more satisfactory than the customary methods of differential centrifugation was needed. The subject of this report is a simple and rapid method for obtaining relatively uncontaminated preparations of particulate cell components by gradi...