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Pouring and Running a Protein Gel by reusing Commercial Cassettes
Published on: February 12, 2012
Cost-effective and efficient apparatus for electroelution of micro- and macrogram quantities of proteins from
Gundlapally Sathyanarayana Reddy1
1a CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology , Hyderabad , India.
Abstract:
Protein recovery from gel electrophoresis plays a significant role in functional genomics and proteomics. To assist in this, a simple, cost-effective, and efficient apparatus for electroelution of proteins has been designed. The performance of the apparatus was demonstrated using the proteins bovine serum albumin (BSA), phosphorylase, ovalbumin, pepsin, and trypsinogen. In all the cases the yield of elution was found to be consistently greater than 85% and the proteins could be eluted without degradation in less than 15 min. The utility of this method can be extended to protein elution from denatured and native polyacrylamide gels, DNA purification from agarose gels, and oligomeric primers purification from polyacrylamide gels. In addition to this, the method offers an effortless purification and characterization of microbial extracellular proteins. The eluted proteins can be directly used in N-terminal amino acid sequencing, and in amino acid and proteomics analyses.
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