Uday, The only thing that I can suggest is to use an assay for the detection of deoxyribose developed by Ken Burton in the 1950's. This is a spectrophotometer-based colorimetric assay which uses the reaction of deoxyribose with diphenylamine and is specific for DNA; it will not detect RNA (except when the RNA is present at very high concentrations). There are more recent assays, but this is the most well known.
Burton, K (1956) A Study of the Conditions and Mechanism of the Diphenylamine Reaction for the Colorimetric Estimation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Biochem. J. 62: 315-323. Good luck, Vince Vincent Mulholland Molecular Biology Unit Manager - Diagnostics & Molecular Biology Section Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) hi I purified my protein under acidic conditions pH-4 with the reason that it will be free from dna. even though its 280 absorption dominates the 260 absorption the 280/260 ratio is always 1.2. I would doubt that there is some DNA but i could not see any signal on agarose gel. I am also sure that the DNA is not homogeneous as it is overexpressed in E.coli which is not a native host. My concern is to confirm the presence or absence of DNA in the sample. I also tried Mass spectroscopy. its a failure because of some unknown reason. could you please suggest me any method that can prove the presence or absence of DNA. It would be nice if it is other than mass spectroscopy and radio labeling. -- With Regards uday (u.kumar from fz-juelich.de) _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list Methods@net.bio.net http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
