Electroelution of Proteins from Polyacrylamide Gels

Pavel S Gromov, Danish Centre for Human Genome Research, Aarhus, Denmark
Julio E Celis, Danish Centre for Human Genome Research, Aarhus, Denmark

Published online: October 2002

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002687

Electroelution of proteins from gels is the method used to recover proteins resolved by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel by transferring the protein molecules out of gel by means of an electric field.

Keywords: gel electrophoresis; polyacrylamide gel slices; electroelution

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of gel-elution procedure (model 422 Electro-Eluter, Bio-Rad). Eluted proteins are collected in the volume between the porous filter and the dialysis membrane.
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    book Dunn MJ (1996) "Electroelution of proteins from polyacrylamide gels". In: Doonan S (ed.) Methods in Molecular Biology. Protein Purification Protocols, vol. 59, pp. 357–362. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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Gromov, Pavel S, and Celis, Julio E(Oct 2002) Electroelution of Proteins from Polyacrylamide Gels. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002687]