For many years, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis has been the method of choice for the investigation of complex mixtures of proteins. Although there are a number of emerging technologies that can be applied to proteomics, none can yet yield routinely the breadth of information available from two-dimensional gels. To be able to obtain instant information regarding molecular mass and pI, as we...

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2D-GE) employs isoelectric focusing in the first dimension and a separation of the proteins according to their molecular weights in the second dimension. The gels are then commonly stained using silver stain to visualize the protein pattern. This is a tedious and time-consuming procedure. Here, we demonstrate a combination of two newly developed methods – OF...

Dose-related effects of methapyrilene (MP) on protein modification and expression were examined using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE) coupled with computer analysis. Methapyrilene was administered ad libitum at doses of 0, 62.5, 125, 250 and 1000 p.p.m. to male F-344 rats for 12 weeks beginning at 8 weeks of age. Following treatment, livers were removed and frozen for 2-D PAGE an...

Electrophoresis is the main metod for separating large polyelectrolyte molecules, primarily used on DNA, in biochemistry and medicine research. An overwiev of the models of physical mechanisms that are behind this phenomena will be presented. The prominent role is taken by reptation mechanisms, by which large ‡exible polyelectrolytes thread their way through the pores of the gel matrix. There a...

The separation of polypeptides by electrophoresis allowed Arne Tiselius to describe protein fractions corresponding to albumin, -, -, and -globulins in serum with the Rrst published diagram of human serum protein electrophoresis in 1939. The number of fractions slowly expanded into electrophoretic subfractions identiRed as 1, 2, 1, 2, 1 and 2. The mobility characteristics of these fractions are...

The discovery that antigen}antibody interaction could be produced not only in liquids, but also on gel media, such as agar or agarose gels, with the formation of insoluble immunoprecipitates, opened the door to the development of the gel diffusion techniques for immunoprecipitation analysis. The Rrst of these techniques, known as double diffusion, was introduced by Ouchterlony in 1948. In this ...