HPCE high performance capillary analysis

A further improvement of the more traditional slab gel analysis is the use of high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE), which combines the separation power of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with the selectivity and speed of conventional gel electrophoresis. However, as HPCE separations are often performed using fused silica capillaries the positively charged histone molecules... 

Shibukawa et al. (40) discussed the frontal analysis method, also called high-performance frontal analysis (HPFA) or high-performance capillary electrophoresis/frontal analysis (HPCE/FA), compared it to conventional methods, and focused on the application to stereoselective protein binding. The affinity of the drugs warfarin, verapamil, and carbamazepine and the drug candidate BOF-4272 to HSA was investigated. 

One cannot overestimate the importance of fluorescence detection in high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE) [1], The success of the human genome project along with the forthcoming revolutions in forensic testing and genetic analysis might not have occurred without the sensitivity and selectivity of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection. 

A very interesting task would be automatic measurement of the product and the calculation of production rates. This would allow automatic optimization of the process by a computer program that varies all relevant parameters, probably by multiparameter analysis, to find the best production conditions. As long as there are no product sensors available, the main problem may be the time necessary for the measurement of an automatically taken sample. However, the use of HPLC methods can give accurate results within 20 min, and high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE), with an analysis time of 5 min, could be introduced (Beckman PIACE 2(X)0, E. Wasserbauer, personal communication and James et al, 1994). Nonetheless, further development is necessary before these methods can be used routinely for automatic fermentation analysis. 

SFC uses the same stationary phases as FIPLC. Selectivity is similar but not identical. One of the greatest differences from n-FIPLC is in speed. SFC optimum flow is inherently three to five times faster, while peak shapes are often significantly better. Unlike n-HPLC, SFC reequilibrates after passage of only a few column volumes. Overall, SFC is often much more than 10 times faster than FIPLC. A fast chiral SFC separation is shown in Figure 4. Note that the column is not high speed but a standard 4.6x250 mm column with 10 pm particles. Some industrial pharmaceutical companies have dropped HPLC for chiral analysis and use SFC for less polar solutes, and high-performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE) for water-soluble solutes. Unlike HPCE, SEC is scalable. 

Performance and Noise Determination for High-Performance Capillary Electrophoretic (HPCE) Analysis of a Standard Mixture (5 mg/L) of Daidzein and Genistein... 

Although capillary electrophoresis (CE),1 also known as high-performance CE or HPCE, has been known and described in the literature for almost two decades, its use for combinatorial mapping is much more recent (1-14). There does not appear to be a previous review, other than that in Analytical Chemistry (an American Chemical Society journal), that describes the general applicability and applications of CE for these purposes (15). There are relatively few actual publications in the refereed literature that have utilized various CE modes to perform analysis of combinatorial maps. At the same time, there are... 

During the last decades the different modes of capillary electrophoresis (CE) have developed into high-performance (HPCE) separation methods, offering a high separation efficiency (lO -lO theoretical plates), high sensitivity (femtomole to zeptomole amounts in nano- to picoliter sample volumes), and short analysis times (typically 5-20 min, in special cases only a few seconds). They are considered as a recognized complement and/or coimterpart of liquid chromatography (LC) and gel electrophoretic methods. 

Because HPLC and HPCE are based on different physico-chemical principles, HPCE may be expected to address areas in which HPLC has shortcomings [884]. One such area is time of separation. In terms of speed of analysis, selectivity, quantitation, methods to control separation mechanism, orthogonality, CE performs better than conventional electrophoresis and varies from HPLC (Table 4.49). CE has very high efficiency compared to HPLC (up to two orders of magnitude) or GC. For typical capillary dimensions 105—106 theoretical plates are common in CE compared to 20 000 for a conventional HPLC column and... 

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