title: Advanced separation methods for collagen parent alpha-chains, their polymers and fragments.
abstract: Current techniques used for collagen alpha-chains and their CNBr fragments are reviewed. Ion exchange, gel permeation, reversed-phase and affinity chromatography are discussed mainly from the preparative aspects as these are both the techniques of choice to remove biological matrix contaminants always present in collagen preparations and techniques routinely used for preparative purposes. Among electromigration procedures gel electrophoresis is widely used both for intact collagen alpha-chains and their fragments. Recently this technique was applied also for miniaturised preparations. Immunoblotting techniques serve more specific detection of otherwise hard to distinguish different collagen polypeptide chains. Capillary electromigration techniques brought recently new aspects of understanding the behaviour of collagen proteins upon different separation modes and seem to represent a smart perspective for better quantitation of individual collagen species.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague. deyl@biomed.cas.cz
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Deyl
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miksík
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D003094:Collagen / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide / Q000737:chemistry; D004586:Electrophoresis / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D003094:Collagen; D003488:Cyanogen Bromide