Gel electrophoresis | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-13

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00:02:07 1 Physical basis
00:07:47 2 Types of gel
00:08:59 2.1 Agarose
00:11:04 2.2 Polyacrylamide
00:13:12 2.3 Starch
00:13:48 3 Gel conditions
00:13:58 3.1 Denaturing
00:16:07 3.2 Native
00:19:33 4 Buffers
00:22:18 5 Visualization
00:23:13 6 Downstream processing
00:23:56 7 Applications
00:25:20 7.1 Nucleic acids
00:27:26 7.2 Proteins
00:29:11 8 History



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Gel electrophoresis is a method for separation and analysis of macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins) and their fragments, based on their size and charge. It is used in clinical chemistry to separate proteins by charge or size (IEF agarose, essentially size independent) and in biochemistry and molecular biology to separate a mixed population of DNA and RNA fragments by length, to estimate the size of DNA and RNA fragments or to separate proteins by charge.Nucleic acid molecules are separated by applying an electric field to move the negatively charged molecules through a matrix of agarose or other substances. Shorter molecules move faster and migrate farther than longer ones because shorter molecules migrate more easily through the pores of the gel. This phenomenon is called sieving.  Proteins are separated by charge in agarose because the pores of the gel are too large to sieve proteins.  Gel electrophoresis can also be used for separation of nanoparticles.
Gel electrophoresis uses a gel as an anticonvective medium or sieving medium during electrophoresis, the movement of a charged particle in an electrical field. Gels suppress the thermal convection caused by application of the electric field, and can also act as a sieving medium, retarding the passage of molecules; gels can also simply serve to maintain the finished separation, so that a post electrophoresis stain can be applied. DNA Gel electrophoresis is usually performed for analytical purposes, often after amplification of DNA via polymerase chain reaction (PCR), but may be used as a preparative technique prior to use of other methods such as mass spectrometry, RFLP, PCR, cloning, DNA sequencing, or Southern blotting for further characterization.