Elution of proteins from gels
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Pouring and Running a Protein Gel by reusing Commercial Cassettes
Published on: February 12, 2012
1McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Abstract:
New protein biochemical technologies have been developed that allow one to learn more and more about a protein with less and less material (on the order of microg). Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, which was originally strictly an analytical method, has in some cases become a high-resolution preparative method. This chapter will focus on the elution of proteins from SDS gels, with an emphasis on recovering enzyme or biological activity of the resulting protein.
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