Polyacrylamide-gel disc electrophoresis of unconcentrated urine samples with special reference to bence jones proteins

Abstract

The polyacrylamide-gel disc electrophoresis has been applied to the fractionation of 27 samples of unconcentrated urine obtained from the patients with monoclonal gammopathy. It was shown that 44% of the whole Bence Jones protein bands examined were detected in the area between 0.70 and 0.90 expressed in terms of relative migration based on transferrin. The method provided a satisfactory separation of native urine proteins with good reproducibility and few technical difficulties. It may become an efficient tool in clinical chemistry.