Fast Plasmid Midiprep Kit

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Company:

Sigma-Aldrich

Product Name:

GenElute™ HP Plasmid Midiprep Kit

Catalog Number:

NA0200-1KT

I do work with liver pathology and have a strong background and experience in innovative liver tumor models, molecular biology techniques such as cloning, mutagenesis and gene expression along with cell and tissue culture. I also have extensive experience in working with transgenic and knockout mouse models and have used sleeping beauty transposon technology along with hydrodynamic delivery method to generate tumors in mouse livers that are composed of human cancer causing genes (oncogenes). We use this kit as it is very convenient for doing midi-preparation of plasmid from bacterial culture, the whole process takes about 30 minutes, the protocol should be: 50 ml culture media for 1 column, but it could be used for 100-150ml media culture. Additionally, the preparation doesn’t need phenol/chloroform extraction or alcohol precipitation operation. In general, we save much more time with the kit, and people can also prepare vacuum instrument if they don’t want to buy special vacuum instrument. 

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Plasmid midi-preparation

Starting Material

Followed protocol

Protocol Overview

We just followed the protocol book, 4ml re-suspend solution, 4 ml lysis buffer, then mix and lyse for 5 minutes, add with 4 ml neutral buffer and 3 ml binding buffer, mix well and let stand for 5 minutes, then filter by syringe and transfer the column preparation buffer treated column, after going through, then wash with washing buffer 1 and buffer 2.

Tips

Don't shake vigorously

Results Summary

VERY nice kit, and it can save many time compared to other kits

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The Good

Works well

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The Bottom Line

One of the instruments was constructed by me, since we didn't have the vacuum machine

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