Transverse Gradient Electrophoresis: Protein Homogeneity Test and Subfractionation Technique
Clyde A. Dubbs 1
1 St. John's Hospital Research Foundation, Santa Monica, California, and Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Electrophoresis of protein (including enzyme) was conducted in a gel medium across which, transverse to the direction of protein migration, a continuous pH gradient extends. Any splitting of a resultant trace for the change of protein mobility with pH suggests both protein heterogeneity and the pH conditions under which further purification and subfractionation may best be pursued.