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Very high MW determination?

Pedro Mendes prm at aber.ac.uk
Fri Sep 27 03:52:31 EST 1996


On 27 Sep 96 at 6:48, Nigel J.Osborn wrote:

> Does anyone know how to measure protein MW in the order of 500,000 to
> several million? Any help would be appreciated.

I am no expert on that, but I think that the best you'd get for that size 
is multi-angle static light scattering. This would also give you the 
hydrodynamic radius of the protein (the usual way to do this is by using 
a Zimm plot, maybe you'll find interesting papers if you do a 
bibliographic search for "Zimm plot").


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