2225 results about "Gel electrophoresis" patented technology

The present invention relates to a microchip apparatus using liquids. More specifically, the invention provides a liquid mixing apparatus comprising at least two microchannels for introducing liquids and a mixing microchannel that connects to the at least two liquid-introducing microchannels, wherein the liquids are transported from the respective liquid-introducing microchannels toward the mixing microchannel, the apparatus further comprising means for enhancing the mixing of the liquids that converge in the mixing microchannel. The invention also provides an electrophoretic apparatus and a microchip electrophoretic apparatus for denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis.

The application identifies novel fragments of alpha-synuclein in patients with Lewy Body Disease (LBD) and transgenic animal models thereof. These diseases are characterized by aggregations of alpha-synuclein. The fragments have a truncated C-terminus relative to fill-length alpha-synuclein. Some fragments are characterized by a molecular weight of about 12 kDa as determined by SDS gel electrophoresis in tricine buffer and a truncation of at least ten contiguous amino acids from the C-terminus of natural alpha-synuclein. The site of cleavage preferably occurs after residue 117 and before residue 126 of natural alpha-synuclein. The identification of these novel fragments of alpha-synuclein has a number of application in for example, drug discovery, diagnostics, therapeutics, and transgenic animals.

Methods using gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry for the rapid, quantitative analysis of proteins or protein function in mixtures of proteins derived from two or more samples in one unit operation are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes (a) preparing an extract of proteins from each of at least two different samples; (b) providing a set of substantially chemically identical and differentially isotopically labeled protein reagents; (c) reacting the extract of proteins from different samples of step (a) with a different isotopically labeled reagent from the set of step (b) to provide two or more sets of isotopically differentially labeled proteins; (d) mixing each of the two or more sets of isotopically labeled proteins to form a single mixture of isotopically differentially labeled proteins; (e) electrophoresing the mixture of step (d) by an electrophoresing method capable of separating proteins within the mixture; (f) digesting at least a portion of one or more separated proteins of step (e) and (g) detecting the difference in the expression levels of the proteins in the two samples by mass spectrometry based on one or more peptides in the sample of labeled peptides. The analytical method can be used for qualitative and particularly for quantitative analysis of global protein expression profiles in cells and tissues, i.e. the quantitative analysis of proteomes.

A method and apparatus for fractionation of charged macro-molecules such as DNA is provided. DNA solution is loaded into a matrix including an array of obstacles. An alternating electric field having two different fields at different orientations is applied. The alternating electric field is asymmetric in that one field is stronger in duration or intensity than the other field, or is otherwise asymmetric. The DNA molecules are thereby fractionated according to site and are driven to a far side of the matrix where the fractionated DNA is recovered. The fractionating electric field can be used to load and recover the DNA to operate the process continuously.

This disclosure describes related novel methods for Recombinase-Polymerase Amplification (RPA) of a target DNA that exploit the properties of recombinase and related proteins, to invade double-stranded DNA with single stranded homologous DNA permitting sequence specific priming of DNA polymerase reactions. The disclosed methods have the advantage of not requiring thermocycling or thermophilic enzymes, thus offering easy and affordable implementation and portability relative to other amplification methods. Further RPA reactions using light and otherwise, methods to determine the nature of amplified species without a need for gel electrophoresis, methods to improve and optimize signal to noise ratios in RPA reactions, methods to optimize oligonucleotide primer function, methods to control carry-over contamination, and methods to employ sequence-specific third ‘specificity’ probes. Further described are novel properties and approaches for use of probes monitored by light in dynamic recombination environments.

The invention is directed to a droplet actuator device and methods for integrating gel electrophoresis analysis with pre or post-analytical sample handling as well as other molecular analysis processes. Using digital microfluidics technology, the droplet actuator device and methods of the invention provide the ability to perform gel electrophoresis and liquid handling operations on a single integrated device. The integrated liquid handling operations may be used to prepare and deliver samples to the electrophoresis gel, capture and subsequently process products of the electrophoresis gel or perform additional assays on the same sample materials which are analyzed by gel electrophoresis. In one embodiment, one or more molecular assays, such as nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) quantification by real-time PCR, and one or more sample processing operations such as sample dilution is performed on a droplet actuator integrated with an electrophoresis gel. In one embodiment, an electrophoresis gel may be integrated on the top substrate of the droplet actuator.

Carbon nanotubes dispersed by a stabilized solution of nucleic acid molecules formed separated nanotube-nucleic acid complexes and were separated according to standard chromatographic methods, including gel electrophoresis, two phase solvent systems and ion exchange chromatography.

A gel electrophoresis training aid is provided. The training aid includes a substantially transparent elastomeric body having at least one series of spaced-apart wells. The elastomeric body is adapted with a plurality of spaced-apart bands extending in the same direction from the wells. Each of the spaced-apart bands are positioned substantially parallel to one spaced-apart well. A training kit including the training aid is also provided.

The invention provides a method for extracting keratin from feather, comprising the steps that after being crashed, clean feather is pretreated by ethanol and hydrochloric acid; by adopting mercaptoethanol reduction method, the pretreated feather is deacidized to obtain keratin solution of the feather, and then clean sand white keratin solid powder is obtained through acid coprecipitate, washing and drying. The extracted keratin is analyzed and represented by the methods such as ultraviolet-visible spectrum, infrared spectrum, SDS-gel electrophoresis, elementary analysis, etc. The results shows that the keratin extracted by the method mainly contains the elements such as C, H, N, O, S, the total content of which reaches over 99%, and the purity is higher; the molecular weight of the keratin mainly ranges from 5 to 20 kD and 40 to 80kD.

The invention relates to a cell line gene knock-out method for obtaining large fragment deletion through a CRISPR/Cas9 system, and belongs to the field of genetic engineering and genetic modification. A pX458 vector is modified, so that the pX458 vector is provided with DsRed2 and ECFP (Enhanced Cyan Fluorescence Protein); then, a plurality of specific sgRNA sites are designed by aiming at a target gene and are connected into the modified vector; after the cell line transfection, cell groups are sorted by a flow cytometry; single cells subjected to genome editing can be very fast obtained; then, a single-cell DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) sequence is subjected to PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) amplification; and single cells with large fragment deletion can be picked out from the single cells through gel electrophoresis. The CRISPR/Cas9 system, the flow cytometry single-cell sorting and fluorescent protein screening on the expression vector are combined, so that the positive monoclonal cells with the large fragment deletion can be obtained in a short time; and the work efficiency of the cell line gene knock-out is greatly improved.

The invention is directed to stable crosslinked water-soluble swellable polymers, methods for making same, and their various uses in the hygiene and medical arts, gel electrophoresis, packaging, agriculture, the cable industry, information technology, in the food industry, papermaking, use as flocculation aids, and the like. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition comprising expandable polymeric microparticles having labile crosslinkers and stable crosslinkers, said microparticle mixed with a fluid and an unreacted tertiary crosslinker that is capable of further crosslinking the microparticle on degradation of the labile crosslinker so as to form a stable gel. A particularly important use is as an injection fluid in petroleum production, where the expandable polymeric particles are injected into a well and when the heat and/or pH of the well cause degradation of the labile crosslinker and when the particle expands, the tertiary crosslinker crosslinks the polymer to form a stable gel, thus diverting water to lower permeability regions and improving oil recovery.

The invention relates to an environment DNA identification method for fish community structure researching. The method is characterized by comprising the steps that 1, water samples are collected according to the size of the water area where a fish community is located; 2, the water samples are processed, and total environment DNA of the processed water samples is extracted; 3, a 16s r DNA sequence with nucleotide sequences being SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2 is adopted as a universal primer to carry out PCR amplification on the total environment DNA, and a PCR product is obtained; 4, gel electrophoresis is carried out on the PCR product, and gel with DNA is obtained; 5, gel cutting and clone sequencing are carried out on the gel with the DNA, and then blast comparison is carried out through GENBANK so as to determine whether the DNA is a fish sequence or not; 6, after it is determined that the DNA is the fish sequence, the next-generation sequencing technology is adopted for analyzing composition conditions of the PCR product on a large scale, and therefore the environment DNA fish composition and community structure are determined. The environment DNA identification method is quite easy, convenient and efficient and has the practical value.

An identification method of animal source character component is provided, which relates to an identification method of food component. The invention overcomes that the current identification method of animal source character component has the defects of low testing sensitivity and unable to test the heat-processed manufactured meat. The animal source character component is identified by the following method: extracting the source character sample DNA of the animal for testing, PCR testing and gel electrophoresis, and then identifying the component of animal source character. The method in the invention has high testing sensitivity, and the identification number limit can be below 1 percent. The identification method in the invention can test the heat-processed manufactured meat, and mix manufactured meat and bone meal product. The identification number limit also can reach below 1 percent. The identification method in the invention doesn't use liquid nitrogen in identification process, which not only lowers the cost, but also improves the safety of the operation.

The invention discloses a gel electrophoresis dyeing device, which is characterized by comprising a liquid storage device (1), a dyeing box (2) and a drive device (4), wherein the liquid storage device is used for storing a liquid reagent used in the dyeing process and is provided with a liquid pouring port and a liquid outlet port; the top of the dyeing box is sealed by a dyeing box cover plate (20); a liquid outlet port is formed on the dyeing box cover plate (20); a gel plate fixing device (3) used for fixing a plurality of gel plates is arranged in the dyeing box (2); the drive device is connected with the dyeing box (2) to drive the dyeing box to shake; the liquid inlet port is connected with the liquid outlet port by a liquid inlet conduit; and a liquid inlet valve is installed on the liquid inlet conduit. By utilizing the gel electrophoresis dyeing device, the plurality of gel plates can be dyed simultaneously, loading and unloading of the gel plates are convenient, crush of the gel plates is avoided, contact of an operator with a hazardous substance is reduced simultaneously, and time and labor are saved. The gel electrophoresis dyeing device is safe and convenient.

The invention discloses an anti-rabies virus monoclonal antibody and a preparation method and an application, belonging to the field of biomedicine and particularly relating to the preparation of a monoclonal antibody capable of identifying rabies virus and the application. The monoclonal antibody of the invention is screened by indirect Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and specificity and affinity thereof combined with antigen are identified by methods such as polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis, speckle ELISA, immunoblot analysis and the like. The anti-rabies virus monoclonal antibody of the invention can be applied in multiple testing methods of antigen of rabies virus and can be also applied in the preparation of rabies virus detecting kit. The anti-rabies virus monoclonal antibody is secreted by anti-rabies virus monoclonal antibody hybridoma cell strain 2C5 with the preservation number being CGMCC No.3014.

Various traveling wave grids and electrophoretic systems, and electrode assemblies using such grids, are disclosed. A configuration in which a voltage potential is used to load a biomolecule sample against a grid is disclosed. A unique strategy of using multiple, reconfigurable grids in such systems is also described. The strategy involves initially conducting a broad protein separation and then selectively tailoring one or more grids, and conducting one or more secondary processing operations. Related strategies and specific methods are additionally disclosed for separating samples of biomolecules and components thereof using the noted systems, assemblies, and grids.

The invention relates to a hereditable deafness susceptibility gene screen test kit. The kit uses mutation from C to T of 1,494 locus of a 12s rRNA gene, mutation from A to G of 1,555 locus of the 12srRNA gene, mutation from A to G of IVS7(-2) locus of an SLC26A4 gene and C(+/-) of 235 locus of a GJB2 gene as detecting objects, designs and optimizes a set of specific primers respectively againsteach locus to be tested according to the PCR technical principle of a tetra-primer amplification refractory mutation system, amplifies the whole set of the primers in the same reaction tube, and performs primary multiple PCR amplification and primary gel electrophoresis on the four reaction tubes to obtain gene types of four loci simultaneously.

Parallel plate slab gel enclosures (slab gel cassettes) used for vertical slab gel electrophoresis are secured to a frame to form a chamber for an upper buffer solution, and the securement is achieved by a pair of clamps that compress the cassettes against the frame. The clamps are preferably mounted to the frame in a pivotal connection that enables the user to easily rotate the clamps in and out of their clamping positions. An additional preferred feature is a pin protruding from each clamp in a position causing the pint to move upward against the bottom of the cassette and push the cassette upwards as the clamp is being engaged. This is particularly useful for cassettes formed of plates of unequal height where the shorter plate fits under an inverse shoulder on a gasket which thereby seals against both plates.

The invention is directed to stable and labile crosslinked water swellable polymeric microparticles that can be further gelled, methods for making same, and their various uses in the hygiene and medical arts, gel electrophoresis, packaging, agriculture, the cable industry, information technology, in the food industry, papermaking, use as flocculation aids, and the like. More particularly, the invention relates to a composition comprising expandable polymeric microparticles having labile crosslinkers and stable crosslinkers, said microparticle mixed with a fluid and an unreacted tertiary crosslinker comprising PEI or other polyamine based tertiary crosslinker that is capable of further crosslinking the microparticle on degradation of the labile crosslinker and swelling of the particle, so as to form a stable gel. A particularly important use is as an injection fluid in petroleum production, where the expandable polymeric microparticles are injected into a well and when the heat and/or pH of the well cause degradation of the labile crosslinker and when the microparticle expands, the tertiary crosslinker crosslinks the polymer to form a stable gel, thus diverting water to lower permeability regions and improving oil recovery.

Cassette electrophoresis systems that allow viewing of molecules during the electrophoresis run are disclosed. Cassette electrophoresis bases that reversibly engage light sources, such as light source bases are disclosed. Also disclosed are visible light transillumination systems for viewing a pattern of fluorescence emitted by fluorophores comprising a cassette housing fluorophore-containing material and a base unit to support the cassette. In some aspects the base unit that includes a power supply also houses a light source having output in the visible wavelength region and a filter placed between the light source and the fluorophores. The system is constructed and arranged such that patterns of fluorescence emitted by the fluorophores are viewable. Also described are charging devices for providing charge to gel electrophoresis systems, portable gel electrophoresis systems and methods of use thereof.