Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis is a technique used to analyze complex protein mixtures. It involves two steps - first, isoelectric focusing separates proteins by their isoelectric points. Second, SDS-PAGE separates them by molecular weight. This results in thousands of protein spots on the gel corresponding to different protein species, and provides information on each protein's properties.
Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis is a technique used to analyze complex protein mixtures. It involves two steps - first, isoelectric focusing separates proteins by their isoelectric points. Second, SDS-PAGE separates them by molecular weight. This results in thousands of protein spots on the gel corresponding to different protein species, and provides information on each protein's properties.
Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis is a technique used to analyze complex protein mixtures. It involves two steps - first, isoelectric focusing separates proteins by their isoelectric points. Second, SDS-PAGE separates them by molecular weight. This results in thousands of protein spots on the gel corresponding to different protein species, and provides information on each protein's properties.
Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis is a technique used to analyze complex protein mixtures. It involves two steps - first, isoelectric focusing separates proteins by their isoelectric points. Second, SDS-PAGE separates them by molecular weight. This results in thousands of protein spots on the gel corresponding to different protein species, and provides information on each protein's properties.
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TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS
INTRODUCTION
Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis (2-DGE or 2-D electrophoresis) is a powerful and widely
used method for the analysis of complex protein mixtures extracted from cells, tissues, or other biological samples. Two-dimensional electrophoresis was first introduced by P. H. O'Farrell and J. Klose in 1975. This technique sorts proteins according to two independent properties in two discrete steps: the first-dimension step, isoelectric focusing (IEF), separates proteins acording to their isoelectric points (pI); the second-dimension step, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), separates proteins according to their molecular weights (Mr, relative molecular weight). Each spot on the resulting two-dimensional array corresponds to a single protein species in the sample. Thousands of different proteins can thus be separated, and information such as the protein pI, the apparent molecular weight, and the amount of each protein is obtained. MATERIALS