Rapid pulsed field capillary electrophoretic separation of megabase nucleic acids.
Rapid pulsed field capillary electrophoretic separation of megabase nucleic acids.
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DOI:
10.1021/ac00101a002
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Morris,MD
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作者:
Kim,Y;Morris,MD
Pulsed field capillary electrophoresis in ultradilute solu-tions of sieving polymers has been used to separate nucleic acid fragments as long as 1.6 million base pairs. Hydroxyethyl cellulose solutions are used for separations in the size range 8000-50 000 base pairs. Longer chain nucleic acids are separated in mixed hydroxyethyl cel-lulose/poly (ethylene oxide) solutions. Separations are rapid (12-13 min).It is difficult to separate double-stranded (ds) DNA fragments longer than about 20-30 kbp (thousand base pairs) by constant electric field (dc) capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE). Only partial resolution of fragments as long as 48 kbp has been demonstrated. 1 23'4 Above about 50 kbp fragments comigrate without separation. To improve CGE separations, several laboratories have proposed the use of pulsed field capillary gel electrophoresis (PFCGE). 5'7 The technique is derived from agarose slab gel pulsedfield electrophoresis, which extends classical nucleic acid separation from a size limit of about 20 kbp to at least 10 Mbp (mega base pairs). The initial reports on PFCGE were aimed mostly at technique development and described applications to separation of relatively short ds-DNA fragments (0.5-23 kbp), where only modest increases in resolution and decreases in separation time were expected or observed. In this work, several important experimental techniques were developed, including theinitial application to linear polyacrylamide sieving buffers, 5 sinusoidal modulation of the driving voltage, 8 time-delayedfield inversion, 7 and random pulse duration field inversion9 in ultradilute polymer solutions7 as well as in more conventional buffers. 5· 6· 89 Although most reports have been to nucleic acid separations, PFCGE has been shown to improve resolution in polysaccharide separations as