single-stranded PCR

[Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF]

In article <1992Mar30.142854.9212 at news2.cis.umn.edu>, ernest at lenti.med.umn.edu (Ernest Retzel (1535 49118)) writes...
> 
>Why not put a biotin on one of your primers, and fish it out after the
>PCR with magnetic beads?  This has been done for a variety of situations
>already.
> 
>Ernest Retzel
>Dept. of Microbiology
>Univ. of Minnesota

How about a reference or two on that.  I am not sure about how to biotinylate 
the primer, ie how many biotins per primer, how much does the biotin affect the 
PCR reaction , and how do you determine how many/much of the magnetic particles 
do you add per estimated biotin content?

Lots of questions huh?  

Thanks in advance


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