Preliminary Notes on the Separation of Nucleic Acids and Proteins by Counter Flow Electrophoresis.

Abstract

A preliminary account is given of an electrophoretic method using the difference in the migration velocities between the nucleic acids and the most rapid acid proteins and vice versa from cell extracts. It is based on a counter flow of buffer against the direction of the electric migration of the nucleic acids and the acid proteins. Technical details and some results, including the finding of depolymerase activity in the nucleic acid fraction, are reported.