Abstract
The substitution of the reverse polarity benzyldimethyl-n-hexadecylammonium chloride (16-BAC) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) for isoelectric focusing (IEF) in the first dimension of electrophoresis improves the solubility of extremely hydrophobic proteins and their recovery compared to conventional 2D IEF/SDS PAGE. The acidic environment of 16-BAC PAGE has also been shown to better preserve the labile methylation of basic proteins such as the histones. Several improvements of the 2D 16-BAC/SDS PAGE method are collectively described here with particular emphasis on the separation of mitochondrial membrane proteins of low molecular mass. Lowering the 16-BAC concentration 50-fold in the gel and buffers decreases the formation of mixed 16-BAC/SDS micelles, which otherwise interferes with the separation of very low molecular mass proteins in second dimension SDS PAGE, and consequently improved the resolution of mitochondrial membrane proteins in the 10-30kDa range.
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