Two proteins with known characteristics on one-dimensional gels were studied by two-dimensional electrophoresis to compare the sensitivities of the two methods in detecting genetic variation. Two-dimensional electrophoresis was found to be less sensitive than several types of one-dimensional gels in distinguishing variants of both proteins. Denaturation of proteins in urea in the two-dimensiona...

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis has been instrumental in the birth and developments of proteomics, although it is no longer the exclusive separation tool used in the field of proteomics. In this review, a historical perspective is made, starting from the days where two-dimensional gels were used and the word proteomics did not even exist. The events that have led to the birth of proteomics ...

After biosynthetic radiolabeling, polypeptides secreted by macrophages were analyzed by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and fluorography. Comparative studies of various macrophage populations (inflammatory macrophages, primed and activated macrophages, resident macrophages) showed that secretory activity is elaborately controlled according to mac...

Reductive methylation has been used to radioactively label crude-extract proteins with 3H or 14C. The procedure achieved good isotope incorporation and resolution of proteins on two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels. It allows high-precision comparison of tissue samples by double-labelling and should facilitate the study of tissue proteins by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.

We have further characterized the sensitivity and specificity of SYPRO Orange protein gel stain and SYPRO Red protein gel stain with native and 2-dimensional polyacrylamide gels and for staining gels prior to Western blot analysis. We found that nucleic acids are not stained by the SYPRO protein gel stains, in contrast to results obtained with commonly used silver staining techniques. Bacterial...

Gels with the ability to immobilize a liquid phase are structures of three-dimensional network. These types of gels consist of two parts, gelling agent (network forming) and liquid solvent phase (hydrophilic or hydrophobic). However, depending on the polarity of the liquid immobilized within the networked structure, gels may be termed either as hydro gels (polar solvent-water) or organogels (or...

The use of polymer gels to record radiation dose distributions in three dimensions was first proposed in 1992 as a proof-of-principle [1]. The accuracy of these early polymer gel dosimeters and scanning methods was not sufficient for most clinical applications [2]. Since then, several efforts were made to increase the accuracy and precision of both the physical gel dosimeter and the scanning te...

This Communication describes the use of patterned elastomeric stamps to mold, release, and stack hydrogels into three-dimensional microstructures. Molding of gels against stamps derivatized by a hexa(ethylene glycol)-terminated self-assembled monolayer or by an adsorbed monolayer of bovine serum albumin allowed the application of several soft lithographic techniques (replica molding, microtrans...