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Team:BIOTEC Dresden/Protocols:Polymerase Chain Reaction (low fidelity)
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (low fidelity)
Reaction volume = 50 μL, scale accordingly
Materials
- sterile 0.2mL PCR strips or plates
- ultra-pure water
- 10X Taq Buffer
- 10mM dNTPs
- forward primers
- reverse primers
- template DNA
- Taq Polymerase
Procedure
- Everything on ice!
- Prepare a Master Mix:
- into a 1.5mL microfuge tube, add the following per 50 μL reaction:
- 37.5μL ultra pure water
- 5,5μL 10X Taq PCR Buffer
- 1,1μL 10mM dNTP
- 0.25μL forward primer
- 0.25μL reverse primer
- 0.5 μL Taq Polymerase
- Note: also prepare one or two extra reactions to allow for pipetting errors.
- Pipet 1μL (usually) of your DNA template into a sterile 0.2mL PCR strip or plate
- Vortex Mastermix and pulse spin down
- Pipet 50μL of your Mastermix into PCR tube
- Pulse spin PCR reactions using the PCR strip centrifuge (in Anni’s lab; front bench)
- Set up PCR machine according to need (denaturation temperature, elongation time).
