Precision and accuracy of anion-exchange separation of nucleic acids

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Solvents for salt-gradient anion-exchange separation of nucleic acids especially, double-stranded DNA and especially by liquid chromatography are improved by, replacing NaCl as the eluting salt with any of a wide range of alkyl ammonium salts and can be used to elute nucleic acids in strict order of increasing length with reduced, sensitivity to elution temperature and salt concentration. Anion-exchange chromatography with these solvents is well suited for identification of DNA fragments on the basis of size, with greater accuracy precision, and resolvable size range than often is possible with gel electrophoresis.