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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2014 Jan 6;105:4.20.1–4.20.13. doi: 10.1002/0471142727.mb0420s105

Table 1.

Concentrations of polyacrylamide giving optimum resolution of RNA fragments and migration rates of marker dyes using denaturing PAGE (Adapted from Maniatis et al., 1975.)

Acrylamide (%) Fragment sizes
separated (bases)
Migration of
bromophenol
blue (bases)
Migration of
xylene cyanol
(bases)
4 100 to 500 ~50 ~230
5 70 to 300 35 130
6 45 to 70 26 105
8 35 to 45 19 75
10 25 to 35 12 55
20 8 to 25 8 28