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What is the purpose of sds?

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SDS, sodium dodecyl sulfate, is a detergent, which means it's a molecule with both a hydrophobic (hates water) and hydrophilic (likes water) end. For protocols such as SDS-Page, it's a mild detergent that breaks the folded structure of proteins without breaking their amino chains. It's negatively charged and highly reactive, so it imparts a fairly consistent shield of negative charge to the entire linearized protein. When you then attempt to separate proteins using an applied field of positive charge, SDS provides the means for all proteins to migrate uniformly based on their size -- the purpose of SDS-page. Without SDS, it's difficult to sort out the migration patterns because different proteins have different folding states and different charges.

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