The mobilities of oligomers of phage lambda DNA and of yeast chromosomes in agarose gels during field inversion gel electrophoresis (FIGE) were measured at different pulse times and electric fields. Also the ratios between forward and backward pulse times and/or field gradients were varied. The problem of 'band inversion' during FIGE, leading to an ambiguity in the mobility of large DNA fragmen...

This paper describes a new design of standard agarose gel electrophoresis procedure for nucleic acids analysis. The electrophoresis was improved by using the real-time spectral analysis of the samples to increase its performance. A laser beam illuminated the analysed sample at wavelength with the highest absorption of gel components. Thus, DNA band is detected well before it may exits a gel pla...

1 The abbreviations used are: KDO, 3-Deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate; KDO 8-P, 3-DeoxyD-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate; Tris, Tris-(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane; HEPES, N-[2Hydroxyethyl]piperazine-N’-[2-ethanesulfonic acid]; PNPase, purine nucleoside phosphorylase; EDTA, (ethylenedinitrilo)tetraacetic acid; 2D gel electrophoresis, two dimensional gel electrophoresis; SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate-p...