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Published on: November 26, 2008
Application of two-dimensional protein gels in biotechnology
1Department of Biotechnology, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Division of Warner-Lambert, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.
Abstract:
The optimal use of biological systems for technologically developed products will not be achieved until biological systems are completely defined in biochemical terms. Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, 2-D gels, are contributing to this goal. These gels separate complex mixtures of proteins into individual polypeptide species. The ultimate use of 2-D gels is the construction of cellular 2-D gel databases which identify the proteins on the gels and catalog their responses to different environmental conditions. In addition to these global analyses, many applications for 2-D gels in basic, applied and clinical research have been shown.
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