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The importance of soluble, acidic proteins in the nervous system recently has been recognized, in terms of quantity and possibly of function. This has come about partly as a result of application of new techniques of protein fractionation such as chromatography and zone electrophoresis. “Acidic proteins” can be defined as those proteins which move faster than serum albumin on zone electrophoresis (starch or acrylamide gel) and which bind most strongly to the basic ion exchangers used in protein chromatography, such as DEAE-cellulose.
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Moore, B.W. (1969). Acidic Proteins. In: Lajtha, A. (eds) Chemical Architecture of the Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7154-4_6
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