SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and serological analysis of pili from Escherichia coli of different pathogenic origin

SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis of Proteins.

Probably the most widely used of techniques for analyzing mixtures of proteins is SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In this technique, proteins are reacted with the anionic detergent, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS, or sodium lauryl sulfate) to form negatively charged complexes. The amount of SDS bound by a protein, and so the charge on the complex, is roughly proportional to its size. Common...

Unpredictable behaviour of mucins in SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the capsular polysaccharides of Escherichia coli K1 and other bacteria.

Methods were developed for the polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of capsular polysaccharides of bacteria with Escherichia coli K1 as a model. Conditions were determined for the rapid and gentle extraction of the K1 polysaccharide by incubation of the bacteria in a volatile buffer and for the subsequent removal of the putative phospholipid moiety attached to the reducing end of the pol...

Attachment pili from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli pathogenic for humans.

Pili from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli pathogenic for humans have been isolated by adsorption to the surface of erythrocytes followed by thermal elution. The pili are composed of two protein subunits with molecular weights of 13,100 and 12,500 as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. These pili also bind to human buccal cells under temperature conditions (37 degrees C) w...

Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

Polyacrylamide gels are typically formed by polymerization of the monomer acrylamide crosslinked to the co-monomer, N,N’-methylenebis-acrylamide, commonly called BIS. This process is a freeradical polymerization that requires an initiator, usually ammonium persulfate, and a catalyst like N,N,N’,N’-tetraethylmethylenediamine (TEMED). A distinct advantage of polyacrylamide gel systems is that by ...