Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for M(r) estimations of high-molecular-weight polypeptides.

A convenient method was established for the M(r) estimation by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of large polypeptides in the range from 250,000 to 600,000. Such polypeptides had previously been shown to migrate improperly in various gel electrophoresis systems. In a conventional Laemmli system with 3% polyacrylamide, approximately linear log M(r) vs Rf plots could be obtained by varying the gel thickness which ranged from 0.