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Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis of Highly Purified Chick Interferon

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EARLIER results1,2 suggested that chick interferon, purified by the methods of Fantes et al.1,3, was wholly or at least predominantly homogeneous, when judged by its behaviour on electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel or in a sucrose gradient. The alkaline polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis method of Davis4 also suggested to us that the interferon was homogeneous2.

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FANTES, K., FURMINGER, I. Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis of Highly Purified Chick Interferon. Nature 216, 71–72 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216071a0

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