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  • Title: Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis.
    Author: Green MR, Sambrook J.
    Journal: Cold Spring Harb Protoc; 2020 Dec 01; 2020(12):. PubMed ID: 33262236.
    Abstract:
    Cross-linked chains of polyacrylamide can be used as electrically neutral gels to separate double-stranded DNA fragments according to size and single-stranded DNAs according to size and conformation. Polyacrylamide gels have the following three major advantages over agarose gels: (1) Their resolving power is so great that they can separate molecules of DNA whose lengths differ by as little as 0.1% (i.e., 1 bp in 1000 bp). (2) They can accommodate much larger quantities of DNA than agarose gels. Up to 10 µg of DNA can be applied to a single slot (1 cm × 1 mm) of a typical polyacrylamide gel without significant loss of resolution. (3) DNA recovered from polyacrylamide gels is extremely pure and can be used for the most demanding purposes (e.g., microinjection of mouse embryos). However, polyacrylamide gels have the disadvantage of being more difficult to prepare and handle than agarose gels. Methods are presented here for preparing and running nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels and for detection of DNA in these gels by staining.
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