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Preparation of DNA-crosslinked Polyacrylamide Hydrogels
Published on: August 27, 2014
Novel hydroxyethylcellulose-graft-poly acrylamide copolymer for separation of double-stranded DNA fragments by CE
Runmiao Yang1, Yanmei Wang, Dan Zhou
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China.
Abstract:
A novel separation medium, hydroxyethylcellulose-graft-polyacrylamide (HEC-g-PAM) synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), used for dsDNA separation by CE is presented. The separation performance of HEC-g-PAM, which has the same graft density and different graft length, has been investigated in Tris-boric acid-EDTA (TBE) buffer solvent mixtures. The temperature-dependent rheological behavior of HEC-g-PAM was also studied by steady-shear rheometry. The results showed that dsDNA fragments between 72 and 1353 bp was achieved with a 30 cm effective capillary length at 150 V/cm using this type of graft copolymer as a separation medium in bare fused-silica capillaries, and separation improvement is obtained in HEC-g-PAM compared with HEC and poly(dimethylacrylamide (PDMA).
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