Microchip capillary electrophoresis generation

Liquid chromatography/MS has also very recently been used for selenate and selenite determination and selenomethionine. And another recent liquid chromatographic hyphenated method, liquid chromatography-hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry, has been used to determine selenite, selenate, selenocysteine, and selenomethionine in a single run. Reverse-phase and ion-exchange columns were used in series to accomplish the complex separation of all four of these analytes. And microchip capillary electrophoresis has most recently been used for determination of various Se-amino acids with negligible sample consumption . An excellent US Center for Disease Control summary of Se analytical methods is available. ... 

The electropherogram shown in Figure 10.6 represent a separation of three peptides with corrected migration times on the x axis. The separation efficiencies averaged 10s plates per meter. Compared to capillary electrophoresis, lower field strength is employed in PMMA microchip to minimize the Joule heating effect. Nonetheless, separations still occurred in far less time on the chip because of the short channel and generated comparable separation efficiencies. 

Shadpour et al. [81] and Osiri et al. [82] employed SDS micro-capillary gel electrophoresis (SDS p-CGE) and micellar electrokinetic capillary (MEKC) electrophoresis in the first and second dimensions, respectively, to sort intact proteins using a poly (methylmethacrylate), PMMA, microchip. A diagram of the microchip is shown in Fig. 4. The electrophoresis commenced in the first dimension for a prescribed amount of time and, then, the bands from the first dimension were sequentially injected into the second dimension for development. The 2D electrophoresis system could generate a peak capacity of 2,600 for proteins isolated from fetal calf serum (see Fig. 4). 

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