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Electroeluting DNA Fragments
Published on: September 5, 2010
Horizontal ultrathin-layer multi-zonal electrophoresis of DNA: an efficient tool for large-scale polymerase chain
1Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands. bvdberg@svseeds.nl
Abstract:
A rapid and efficient procedure for large-scale analysis of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) fragments in the range of 200-3000 base pairs is presented. The procedure is based on horizontal ultrathin-layer multi-zonal (HUME) electrophoresis of PCR fragments in polyacrylamide gels followed by silver staining. HUME gels can be prepared rapidly using a simple procedure called the flap technique. The electrophoretic set-up allows the use of multi-channel pipettes for sample loading. Separation and detection of the PCR fragments from sample preparation to silver staining can be carried out in 2 h. Using four electrophoresis units, one technician can analyze 400 PCR fragment samples in 2 h.
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