title: Rapid high-performance liquid chromatography of nucleic acids with polystyrene-based micropellicular anion exchangers.
abstract: Nucleic acids were separated by ion-exchange chromatography on 30 x 4.6 and 100 x 4.6 mm columns packed with a micropellicular anion exchanger made of 3-microns rigid polystyrene-based non-porous microspheres with a covalently bound hydrophilic layer and DEAE functional groups at the surface. The stationary phase particles showed negligible swelling in methanol according to permeability measurements with water and methanol. Nucleic acids and their fragments including synthetic single-stranded oligonucleotides, linear, nicked and supercoiled DNAs as well as DNA restriction fragments were separated in less than 5 min, a time scale that is much smaller than that of conventional high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis for such samples. When only buffer and sodium chloride were used in the eluent for the separation of double-stranded DNA restriction fragments pGEM-3Z/Taq I, electrophoretic analysis of the effluent revealed the presence of smaller fragments in the bands of the larger ones. Upon addition of ethylenediaminetetraacetic (EDTA) salt to the eluent, however, such contamination by shorter fragments was no longer observed. In the absence of EDTA, magnesium chloride in the eluent at a concentration of 1 mM precluded the separation of the restriction fragments under otherwise identical chromatographic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, New Haven, CT 06520-2159.
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Maa
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Horváth
authors.forename: U C
authors.initials: UC
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Crothers
mesh_terms: D000837:Anion Exchange Resins; D001483:Base Sequence; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis / Q000187:drug effects; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes / Q000494:pharmacology; D004278:DNA, Superhelical / Q000032:analysis / Q000187:drug effects; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007475:Ion Exchange Resins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000032:analysis; D010957:Plasmids; D011137:Polystyrenes
chemical_list: D000837:Anion Exchange Resins; D004278:DNA, Superhelical; D007475:Ion Exchange Resins; D009696:Nucleic Acids; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D011137:Polystyrenes; D004247:DNA; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes