title: The use of high-performance liquid chromatography for the determination of size and molecular weight of proteins: a caution and a list of membrane proteins suitable as standards.
abstract: We propose a list of 15 water-soluble globular proteins and 13 forms of detergent-soluble membrane proteins of known Stokes radii for the calibration of high-performance liquid chromatography columns. It is shown that it is advisable to use different sets of standards for these two types of proteins as the detergent-solubilized membrane proteins may behave differently, being excluded or retarded, depending upon the gel support. A smooth, although nonlinear, relationship between Stokes radii and erf-1(1--KD) is observed while a large scatter of points exists if the calibration is expressed as the molecular weight as a function of KD.
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003902:Detergents; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D012015:Reference Standards; D012995:Solubility; D014461:Ultracentrifugation
chemical_list: D003902:Detergents; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011506:Proteins