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In an electrophoresis chamber, food dyes must carry a net charge that allows them to migrate towards the electrode of opposite charge. Typically, if the chamber is set up with a positive electrode (anode) at one end and a negative electrode (cathode) at the other, the dyes must be negatively charged to move toward the positive electrode. Conversely, if the dyes are positively charged, they would migrate towards the negative electrode. The specific charge of the dyes can depend on the pH of the medium and the chemical properties of the dyes themselves.

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Capillary electrophoresis is a technique used in laboratories to separate molecules based on their charge in order to study and analyze them. Capillary electrophoresis uses an electric charge to force the movement of molecules since each molecule will go a varying distance based on the weight of the molecule and their charge. Some areas of study that use capillary electrophoresis include DNA sequencing and pharmaceutical analysis.


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Electrophoresis technique is not designed to cut DNA molecule. When DNA is analyzed by electrophoresis to determine its molecular mass, the molecular biology engineer usualy digests the DNA molecule, before the electrophoresis, with specific enzymes called "restriction enzymes" in order to obtain fragments of diverse molecular weights that can be seen as bands in electrophoresis gels.


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The buffer is the medium through which the current flows. In the electrophoresis chamber, the anode and cathode are separated and the gel is placed between them. In order to close the circuit and generate the voltage which causes the migration, the entire chamber is filled with a conductive buffer. It is actually possible to perform electrophoresis without a buffer; however this requires a specially made electrophoresis chamber. In these chambers the electrodes actually contact the top and bottom of the gel eliminating the need for a conductive buffer to close the circuit.SDS PAGE electrophoresis uses buffer not primarily as a conductor but for holding a desired pH, dissipating heat and providing SDS in excess in the case of denaturing gels. A gel would run without a buffer as the gel itself is a conductor but the currents involved would heat it to the point of decomposition. Also the volume of liquid in a gel does not allow for an adequate pH buffering system. Holding a pH is extremely important for reproducibility especially in native gels as the pH can change the charge on the peptide. It is true some gels do not require buffer but these are rare cases like isoelectric focusing.the primary application of the buffer would be to conduct electricity,to form a closed circuit


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Why is a protein denatured before electrophoresis?

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What is the main difference between protein electrophoresis and nucleic acid electrophoresis?

There are many similarities and differences between protein and DNA electrophoresis.Similarities:PAGE protein and DNA electrophoresis both cause separation by size, creating bands that are viewed by the scientist or a machine. The smallest segments more the fastest due to less friction with the surface of their medium or equipment.The movement of charges through the medium is what causes the DNA or proteins to move. Electrons move from the negative to positive end of the gel or capillary tube.Differences:In PAGE protein electrophoresis, a polyacrylamide gel is used to prevent convection from altering the movement of the proteins. If the proteins are charged, and there is a worry that the charge will affect the mobility of the protein segments, 1% SDS can be added to get rid of the mass/charge issue. This way, only the mass of the segment determines how far it moves. In DNA capillary electrophoresis, the size of the capillary is so small that it does not have room for convection to occur (it is only 20-50 microns wide). Thus, there is no medium in the capillary but DNA itself.In protein electrophoresis, the proteins are often dyed so their movement can be viewed with the naked eye, or a machine. With DNA capillary electrophoresis, DNA strands are made through DNA replication with dNTPs that are fluorescently labeled for the different nucleotides. Each base is labeled a different color. A fine laser lights up the DNA strand in the capillary tube and reads what color fluoresces. This is how the nucleotide is identified.Protein PAGE electrophoresis is used to determine the purity of a protein sample. It can also be used to see how large the chains are that make up a multi-chain protein if a denaturing agent is added. DNA electrophoresis is used to get the order of nucleotides in a DNA sequence. It is done by chopping the DNA sequence into many smaller bits and sequencing them, then putting them back together by lining them up according to sequence overlaps. This is called the "shotgun" method. Protein electrophoresis can figure out the order of about 15-20 amino acids by a similar method, but DNA electrophoresis can get up to 1000 nucleotides (~300 amino acids). DNA electrophoresis is limited by the low probability that the DNA sequence would be cut into a segment greater than 1000 nucleotides.


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