Digesting the DNA
Digestion of DNA is carried out just to look at it (an analytical gel) or, like in this case - cut a band out of the gel for further treatment (a preparative gel). . Typically, a band is easily visible under UV light in an ethidium-bromide-stained gel if it contains about 20ng of DNA.
Restriction endonucleases such as EcoRI recognize specific palindromic sequences and cleave a phosphodiester bond on each strand at that sequence. After digestion with a restriction endonuclease the resulting DNA fragments can be separated by agarose gel electrophoresis and their size can be estimated.
Double digestion when you are digesting your DNA with two (or more) enzymes. In such cases, you have to make sure to use the buffer that will be most compatible with all the enzymes. Enzyme buffers are specifically formulated to provide the salt concentration for optimal enzyme activity. There should not be too much salt in the digestion because too salt salt will inhibit enzyme activity.
- (Lysis= K112808)
pBAD- promoter Lysis-big construct- gene for cell lysis Gel image of released pBAD(I0500), after digestion with EcoRI+PstI:
Each pBAd and Lysis has 4 restriction enzymes E, X,S, P.
pBAD is digested with EcoRI +SPeI Lysis is digested with EcoRI + XbaI
Observations:
Plasmid Concentration 260/280
IO500(P) 1790.5µg/µL 1.92 Lysis(L) 2324.4µg/µL 1.91
For Short Digestion
DNA = 2µL ECORI + Pst1 E1+E2 = 0.5µL + 0.5µL BSA = 2µL Buffer = 2µL MQ = 13µL
Total = 20µL
Time taken = 1.5 hours