DNase-free RNase, that is!

On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Ed Siefker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spec reading tells me I got about 150ug of nucleic acid, and
> I'm sure that's not all plasmid DNA.  Running it on a gel
> shows a little bit of plasmid DNA, and a large bright splotch
> running around 100bp.  No genomic DNA is stuck in the
> wells.
> 
> I figure that blotch either has to be RNA, or DNA.  If my
> lysis was harsh enough that it degraded the DNA to 100bp
> fragments, I would expect to see the small amount of
> plasmid as a smear instead of a well defined band.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Hiranya Roychowdhury <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> How do you know that you got RNA?  Alkaline lysis does not give you globs of 
>> RNA.
>> 
>> 
>> Hiranya S. Roychowdhury, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Health & Public Services
>> NMSU-Dona Ana Community  College
>> 575 527 7725 (office)
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Ed Siefker 
>> [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 2:29 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: LiCl precipitation?
>> 
>> I did an alkaline lysis miniprep and ended up with gobs and gobs of RNA.
>> I added an equal volume of 4M LiCl, chilled at -20C for 40 minutes, and
>> spun at 16K Gs for 20 minutes.  I don't see a pellet.  What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Methods mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Methods mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Methods mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods

_______________________________________________
Methods mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods

Reply via email to