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Apparent Pore Size of Polyacrylamide Gels: Comparison of Gels Cast and Run in Tris-acetate-EDTA and Tris-borate-EDTA Buffers

Apparent Pore Size of Polyacrylamide Gels: Comparison of Gels Cast and Run in Tris-acetate-EDTA and Tris-borate-EDTA Buffers

N C Stellwagen

Electrophoresis. 1998 Jul;19(10):1542-7.

PMID: 9719523

Abstract:

The electrophoretic mobilities of DNA molecules in three different molecular weight ladders were measured in polyacrylamide gels containing different acrylamide concentrations (%T) and cross-linker ratios (%C), cast and run in Trisacetate-EDTA (TAE) buffer. The apparent pore radius of each gel was estimated from Ferguson plots of the relative mobilities of each of the DNA molecules, using the mobility of the monomer fragment in each molecular weight ladder as the reference mobility. The effective size of each of the DNA molecules was estimated from its radius of gyration. The apparent gel pore radii calculated in this manner ranged from 21 nm in gels containing 10.5%T, 5%C to 200 nm in gels with 4.6%T, 2%C, similar to the values observed for polyacrylamide gels cast and run in Tris-borate-EDTA (TBE) buffer (Holmes and Stellwagen, Electrophoresis 1991, 12, 612-619). Hence, the effective pore size of polyacrylamide gels is essentially independent of whether the gels are cast and run in TAE or TBE buffer.

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