Electrophoretic mobility, determination

Electrophoretic mobilities determined by the Tiselius method have b n found generally to be in good agreement with those obtained Ky... 

It is, of course, of importance to determine whether the electrophoretic mobilities determined by the moving boundary and microscopic methods yield the same values. The electrophoretic mobility of serum albumin as a function of the pH has been determined by Tiselius21... 

Recent development of laser-based instrumentation for electrophoretic mobility determination has made it possible to determine zeta potential of particles suspended in liquid media for systems that were difficult or impossible to study by classical techniques. These instruments measure electrophoretic mobilities by making direct velocity measurements of particles moving in an applied electric field by analyzing the Doppler shift of laser light scattered from the moving particles. Electrophoretic mobilities can then be converted into zeta potentials by use of standard equations 48-50),... 

Relationships between electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential for other types of particles in dilute suspensions can be found in the literature and are summerized in Table 6.1. To date, these rigorous or approximate models have only academic significance as evidenced in many research publications of electrophoretic mobility determination of various model systems. Their... 

These effects can be illustrated more quantitatively. The drop in the magnitude of the potential of mica with increasing salt is illustrated in Fig. V-7 here yp is reduced in the immobile layer by ion adsorption and specific ion effects are evident. In Fig. V-8, the pH is potential determining and alters the electrophoretic mobility. Carbon blacks are industrially important materials having various acid-base surface impurities depending on their source and heat treatment. 

The reaction center is built up from four polypeptide chains, three of which are called L, M, and H because they were thought to have light, medium, and heavy molecular masses as deduced from their electrophoretic mobility on SDS-PAGE. Subsequent amino acid sequence determinations showed, however, that the H chain is in fact the smallest with 258 amino acids, followed by the L chain with 273 amino acids. The M chain is the largest polypeptide with 323 amino acids. This discrepancy between apparent relative masses and real molecular weights illustrates the uncertainty in deducing molecular masses of membrane-bound proteins from their mobility in electrophoretic gels. 

Gorin has extended this analysis to include (1) the effects of the finite size of the counterions in the double layer of spherical particles [137], and (2) the effects of geometry, i.e. for cylindrical particles [2]. The former is known as the Debye-Huckel-Henry-Gorin (DHHG) model. Stigter and coworkers [348,369-374] considered the electrophoretic mobility of polyelectrolytes with applications to the determination of the mobility of nucleic acids. 

An important reason for this lack of experimental work is that the zeta-potential cannot be easily determined independent of the electrophoretic mobility [284] however, in the case of proteins (as well as some other charged colloids), the intrinsic charge obtained by titration is a parameter that can be measured independent of the electrophoretic mobility. The charge obtained from electrophoretic measurements (i.e., the net charge) via the preceding theories is generally not the same as the charge obtained from titration (i.e., the in-... 

Rodbard and Chrambach [77,329] developed a computer program that allows the determination of molecular parameters, i.e., free mobility, molecular radii, molecular weight, and charge or valence, from measured electrophoretic mobilities in gels with different monomer concentrations. For a set of mobility versus gel concentration data they used the Ferguson [18,115,154] equation to obtain the retardation constant from the negative slope and the free mobility from the extrapolated intercept. From the retardation constant they determined the molecular radius using... 

The tortuous-path and barrier theories consider the effects of the media on the electrophoretic mobility in a way similar to the effect of media on diffusion coefficients discussed in a previous section of this chapter. The tortuons-path theory seeks to determine the effect of increased path length on electrophoretic mobility. The barrier theory considers the effects of the barrier or media conductivity on the electrophoretic mobility. 

Determination of the effective transport coefficients, i.e., dispersion coefficient and electrophoretic mobility, as functions of the geometry of the unit cell requires an analogous averaging of the species continuity equation. Locke [215] showed that for this case the closure problem is given by the following local problems ... 

The standard Rodbard-Ogston-Morris-Killander [326,327] model of electrophoresis which assumes that u alua = D nlDa is obtained only for special circumstances. See also Locke and Trinh [219] for further discussion of this relationship. With low electric fields the effective mobility equals the volume fraction. However, the dispersion coefficient reduces to the effective diffusion coefficient, as determined by Ryan et al. [337], which reduces to the volume fraction at low gel concentration but is not, in general, equal to the porosity for high gel concentrations. If no electrophoresis occurs, i.e., and Mp equal zero, the results reduce to the analysis of Nozad [264]. If the electrophoretic mobility is assumed to be much larger than the diffusion coefficients, the results reduce to that given by Locke and Carbonell [218]. 

The properties of the filter-cake formed by macroscopic particles can be significantly influenced by certain organic additives. The overall mechanism of water-soluble fluid loss additives has been studied by determining the electrophoretic mobility of filter-cake fines. Water-soluble fluid loss additives are... 

Davies, R. and Prcece, A.W. (1983). The electrophoretic mobilities of minerals determined by laser Doppler velocimetry and their relationship with the biological effects of dusts towards macrophages. Clin. Phys. Physiol. Meas. 4, 129-140,... 

For the work described below, only 600 pi (6 mg) of gland extract, obtained from the posterior gland, were available. The active protein was subsequently determined to be present at a concentration of about 0.5%, representing less than 100 pg (1 nmol) of hementin. The remainder of the extract consisted of several hundred inactive proteins and peptides. While the protein composition and cell types of the anterior and posterior glands are very different, the electrophoretic mobility of the active enzyme from... 

Electrophoresis occurs in electrolyte solutions, where a competition of two forces, the electric force Fe and the frictional force Ff, are in equilibrium. The relationship of the two forces determines the electrophoretic mobility of the compounds ... 

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