Biology

Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins

1, 1
1Proteomic Center, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
  CITE THIS  SHARE 
Biology

Your institution must subscribe to JoVE's Biology section to access this content.

Fill out the form below to receive a free trial or learn more about access:

 

Summary

In this video, we demonstrate a method for electrophoretic separation of proteins using poly-acrylimide gel electrophoresis (PAGE).

Cite this Article

Copy Citation | Download Citations

Chakavarti, B., Chakavarti, D. Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins. J. Vis. Exp. (16), e758, doi:10.3791/758 (2008).

Abstract

Electrophoresis is used to separate complex mixtures of proteins (e.g., from cells, subcellular fractions, column fractions, or immunoprecipitates), to investigate subunit compositions, and to verify homogeneity of protein samples. It can also serve to purify proteins for use in further applications. In polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, proteins migrate in response to an electrical field through pores in a polyacrylamide gel matrix; pore size decreases with increasing acrylamide concentration. The combination of pore size and protein charge, size, and shape determines the migration rate of the protein. In this unit, the standard Laemmli method is described for discontinuous gel electrophoresis under denaturing conditions, i.e., in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).

Protocol

The complete text protocol for this experimental approach is available in Current Protocols in Molecular Biology.

Subscription Required. Please recommend JoVE to your librarian.

Disclosures

The authors have nothing to disclose.

Comments

10 Comments

  1. Hi nice demo but I did not understand why the presenters kept on showing an agarose gel electrophoresed DNA gel in between as a representation instead of a protein gel.

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    June 15, 2008 - 1:11 PM

  2. SYPROorange and SYPROruby staining - two fluorescent-based protein detection methods - can appear like ethidium bromide stained DNA gels.  So those gels you are speaking of may actually be protein gels. 

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    June 16, 2008 - 9:34 AM

  3. Yeah possible,  but then why do we see only a single band.I guess SYPRO detection methods would detect the entire protein panel and not specific bands. unless otherwise they are detecting some specific enzyme activity using flourescent detection methods.

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    June 16, 2008 - 9:52 AM

  4. We loaded BSA.

    Thanks.

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    June 17, 2008 - 2:12 AM

  5. Please not that we showed polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and not agarose gel electrophoresis.

    Thanks.

    Bulbul Chakravarti

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    June 17, 2008 - 2:08 AM

  6. why cannot i see the video...? pls help me..

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    October 10, 2008 - 3:35 AM

  7. i can see it now..thanks...

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    October 10, 2008 - 4:50 AM

  8. my network is poor, I can not enjoy the video

    Reply
    Posted by: Huang C.
    March 15, 2009 - 6:30 AM

  9. Hello, Please shoot me an email at nikitab@jove.com and we'll figure something out for you. Cheers, Nikita

    Reply
    Posted by: Anonymous
    March 22, 2009 - 10:26 PM

  10. Hi, thanks what can I download your video ? please help me

    Reply
    Posted by: violet s.
    January 14, 2012 - 10:35 AM

Post a Question / Comment / Request

You must be signed in to post a comment. Please or create an account.

Usage Statistics

CITE THIS
SEE RELATED VIDEOS