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Oxidation of cysteine-rich proteins during gel electrophoresis

Cesare Achilli1 Annarita Ciana1 Giampaolo Minetti1
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1 Biochemical laboratories, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
JBM 2018 , 5(4), 1;
Published: 5 December 2018
© 2018 by the author. Licensee POL Scientific, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Keywords
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of proteins
thioglycolate
cysteine
selenocysteine
methionine sulfoxide reductase
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