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Gary B Smejkal1, Myra H Robinson

  • 1Pressure Biosciences, Proteomics and Small Molecules Applications Laboratory, Woburn, MA 01801, USA. gsmejkal@pressurebiosciences.com

Electrophoresis
|April 21, 2007
PubMed

When dried IPGs are hydrated with protein solutions, the concentration of protein and other ionic constituents is constant throughout the strip. Tris, initially present at a very low concentration, focuses during IEF and accumulates in the gradient at a pH corresponding to its pK(a) at the operative temperature of electrophoresis. Tris focuses more rapidly than many basic proteins, and concentrates into a localized zone of increased conductivity which coincides with a precipitous voltage drop in that vicinity. Basic proteins, already near their pI, are frequently observed to align at the periphery of this zone. Acidic proteins imbibed at the basic end of the gradient must traverse this region before this ionic boundary is formed, or otherwise may fail to migrate to their proper positions in the pH gradient.

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