Abstract
Abstract We describe a modification of two‐dimensional (2‐D) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis that requires only a single gel to reproducibly detect differences between two protein samples. This was accomplished by fluorescently tagging the two samples with two different dyes, running them on the same 2‐D gel, post‐run fluorescence imaging of the gel into two images, and superimposing the images. The amine reactive dyes were designed to insure that proteins common to both samples have the same relative mobility regardless of the dye used to tag them. Thus, this technique, called difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE), circumvents the need to compare several 2‐D gels. DIGE is reproducible, sensitive, and can detect an exogenous difference between two Drosophila embryo extracts at nanogram levels. Moreover, an inducible protein from E. coli was detected after 15 min of induction and identified using DIGE preparatively.
Keywords
Difference gel electrophoresisGel electrophoresisPolyacrylamide gel electrophoresisChromatographyFluorescenceChemistryElectrophoresisTwo-dimensional gel electrophoresisColor markerGel electrophoresis of proteinsMolecular-weight size markerGel electrophoresis of nucleic acidsSignificant differenceMolecular biologyBiologyBiochemistryProteomicsGene
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- 18
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Mustafa Ünlü,
Mary E. Morgan,
Jonathan S. Minden
(1997).
Difference gel electrophoresis. A single gel method for detecting changes in protein extracts.
Electrophoresis
, 18
(11)
, 2071-2077.
https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.1150181133
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