agarose
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agarose
A carbohydrate polymer that is a component of agar. It is used in chromatography and electrophoresis.
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an essentially uncharged component of agar comprising a ≈120 kDa alternating carbohydrate polymer. It consists of -3)d-Galp-(β1 — 4)-3,6An-l-Galp(α1 repeating units, containing small amounts of ionized sulfate and pyruvate groups. It is widely used as a matrix in zone and immunoelectrophoresis, immunodiffusion, and gel filtration and affinity chromatography. See also agarobiose.
| agaropectin, agarobiose, agar-diffusion method | |
| age-1, agglutinate, agglutination |
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agarose
More highly purified form of agar with similar uses to agar and widely used in the separation of nucleic acid fragments.
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