METHOD 1. Immerse the gel, together with its attached glass plate, in 7% acetic acid for 5 minutes. Remove the gel from the fixative by carefully lifting the glass plate from the fluid. 2. Rinse the gel briefly in deionized H2O. Remove excess fluid from the surface of the gel with a pad of Kimwipes. IMPORTANT Do not use absorbent paper; it will stick to the gel. 3. (Optional) Dry the gel onto a...

Denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of amplified polymorphic short tandem repeat (STR) loci using fluorescent markers is a mainstay of forensic and paternity testing. To reduce the drawback of preparing gels or using expensive precast gels, we have developed a simple and rapid method to reuse gels between 2 and 8 times over a period of several days. Following the initial elec...

I evaluated a commercially available polyacrylamide column (Clinetics Corp.) for use in assaying for carcinoembryonic antigen. The procedure eliminates the need for dialysis and 50 samples, assayed in duplicate, may be completed in 5 h. In general, results by this technique are 1.0 microgram/L (range 0.5-2.0) lower than by the conventional dialysis method (r = 0.9876). Sensitivity approximates ...

1.Blum, H., H. Beier, and H.J. Gross. 1987. Improved silver staining of plant proteins, RNA and DNA in polyacrylamide gels. Electrophoresis 8:93-99. 2.Görg, A., G. Boguth, C. Obermaier, A. Posch, and W. Weiss. 1995. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with immobilized pH gradients in the first dimension (IPG-Dalt): the state of the art and the controversy of vertical versus horiz...

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 ...

Proteases are involved in the regulation of many biological functions. This study describes a novel method for detecting protease activity by fluorescent zymogram in-gel protease assays, using SDS polyacrylamide gels copolymerized with a peptide-MCA (4-methyl-coumaryl-7-amide) substrate. This method allows simultaneous determination of protease cleavage specificity and molecular weight. Trypsin...

Ornithine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.17) has been purified 3,500-fold from the plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum. The purified material exhibited a Km for ornithine of 0.6 mM and Vmax of 20 mumol of CO2 formed per min/mg at 30 degrees C (62 mumol/min/mg at 37 degrees C). It migrated as a single protein and activity species on high pressure liquid chromatography (TSK-3000) in 0.15 M NaCl (Mr = 80,...

1. An acidic protein with properties similar to those of troponin C from rabbit skeletal muscle has been shown to be present in bovine and rabbit smooth muscles, chicken gizzard and rabbit liver, kidney and lung. 2. A simple new method involving the use of organic solvents is described for the purification of the troponin C-like proteins from various tissues. 3. The troponin C-like proteins can...