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Methods
The combined procedure for the separation, detection, and characterization
of platinum-containing species in plant materials is described in references
4 and 5.
Briefly, extracts of untreated and platinum-treated grass cultivations were separated by combined use of two different preparative methods with different separation principles: gel permeation chromatography followed by isotachophoresis in the Model 491 Prep Cell. This combined procedure leads to an excellent recovery of purified platinum binding proteins. The detection of the platinum species was carried out sequentially by absorptive voltammetric platinum determination in individual fractions. Native electrophoresis (PAGE) was used for further characterization of selected species.
Isotachophoresis
Following chromatography4,5, a second preparative separation step of isotachophoresis
gave best results. In isotachophoresis, the upper buffer is called the
terminating electrolyte and the lower buffer is the leading electrolyte.
The non-restrictive polyacrylamide gel is polymerized containing the leading
electrolyte. During electrophoresis, charged molecules electrophorese
through
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