After having established the basic protocol of two-dimensional electrophoresis with immobilized pH gradients in the first dimension (IPG-Dalt) in 1988 (A. Görg et al., Electrophoresis 1988, 9, 531-546), some critical parameters of the actual IPG-Dalt protocols as well as the results obtained with horizontal and vertical second-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-electrophoresis are demonstrated and discussed.