more information Acrilamide vs agarose

[alessandra]

Hi I need some help

Someone can tell me about a book, article, where I can find the best use of acrylamide and agarose gel. I mean acrilamide gives high resolution, but I couldn't find more information about this.
thanks...

[canalon]

What do you want know?
Wikipedia in electrophoresis will probably give you a good answer but in short:
-Acrylamide gives a very good resolution but gels are long and complicated to prepare, expensive and use plenty of nasty chemicals (acrylamide is a neurotoxin).
-Agarose is not as discrimant, but is good enough to discriminate samples with 20bp or more difference (depending on the size), easy to prepare, and harmless until stained. And cheaper to prepare.

[Bionic]

my teacher ever said to me.. depend on the object which our learned if we study abot DNA we use agarose and if protein or enzyme is acrylamide

[canalon]

my teacher ever said to me.. depend on the object which our learned if we study abot DNA we use agarose and if protein or enzyme is acrylamide

Although When working with DNA, agarose is used most of the time, for some applications, acrylamide is used. For example to run your gel in highly denaturing conditions (TGGE, DGGE), or to look at very short difference in size (sequencing)

[MrMistery]

-Acrylamide gives a very good resolution but gels are long and complicated to prepare, expensive and use plenty of nasty chemicals (acrylamide is a neurotoxin).

Or you can just buy ready-cast

[canalon]

-Acrylamide gives a very good resolution but gels are long and complicated to prepare, expensive and use plenty of nasty chemicals (acrylamide is a neurotoxin).

Or you can just buy ready-cast

If you can afford it. Or if they fit your needs... But even agarose exist ready cast now... and some even include the EtBr. Good for those who can afford that kind of thing.

[MrMistery]

If you can afford it.

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