Polar Electrophoresis: Shape of Two-Dimensional Maps Is as Important as Size

Renato Millioni, Rita Polati, Michele Menini, Lucia Puricelli, Manuela Miuzzo, Paolo Tessari, Enrico Novelli, Pier Giorgio Righetti and Daniela Cecconi

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-5

Abstract: The performance of two-dimensional electrophoresis in conventional gels in Cartesian coordinates (2-DE) vs. polar coordinates (2-PE) is here evaluated. Although 2-DE is performed in much longer Immobiline gels in the first dimension (17 cm) vs. barely 7-cm in 2-PE, an equivalent resolving power is found. Moreover, due to the possibility of running up to seven Immobiline strips in the radial gel format, the reproducibility of spot position is seen to be higher, this resulting in a 20% higher matching efficiency. As an extra bonus, strings of “isobaric” spots (i.e. polypeptides of identical mass with different pI values) are more resolved in the radial gel format, especially in the 10 to 30 kDa region, where the gel area fans out leaving extra space for spot resolution. In conclusion, this novel gel format in the second dimension of 2D gels is seen as an important improvement of this technique, still one of the most popular in proteome analysis.

Date: 2012
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