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Introduction to Protein Electrophoresis

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Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins

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This chapter briefly discusses the developments in electrophoresis of proteins from Tiselius’ moving-boundary electrophoresis to the modern-day two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. It also touches upon the staining methods used to visualize total proteins post electrophoresis.

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  1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Pothur R. Srinivas

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Srinivas, P.R. (2019). Introduction to Protein Electrophoresis. In: Kurien, B., Scofield, R. (eds) Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1855. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8793-1_2

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