Capillary electrophoresis i.k.
A CEMS technique has been developed for
age estimation of silk textiles based on amino acid racemization rates ranging in age from
several decades to a fewthousandsyears old. The analysis takes ~20 min., consumes only
nanolitres of amino acid mixture, and provide both amino acid composition profiles and d/l
ratios for 11 amino acids. Lysozymem bovine serum albumin and betagalactosidase were
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succesfully separated using a laboratorymade miniaturized capillary electrophoresis
apparatus with a confocal fluorescence spectrometry (Sekhon, 2011).
Conclusions and perspectives