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Denaturing Urea Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (Urea PAGE)
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Denaturing Urea Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (Urea PAGE)
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08:44 min

October 29, 2009

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  • 00:00Title
  • 00:08Introduction
  • 00:52Gel Preparation
  • 02:37Prerun
  • 04:03Load Samples and Run the Gel
  • 05:43Process the gel

Summary

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Denaturing urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is used to separate single-stranded DNA or RNA up to a limit of 500 nucleotides. Urea in combination with heat denatures samples and unstructured single strands migrate within the gel matrix according to their molecular weight.

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