Degenerate PCR...a complication..

[Ed Rybicki]

In article <2j8bs9$pvg at gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> aabuin at bcm.tmc.edu (Alejandro Abuin) writes:
>   Well, I want to do degenerate oligo PCR from a very conserved region of
>the known mouse cDNA.  How would you go about separating different species
>from a pool of PCR products of the same size?

Restrict them with an appropriate restriction enzyme or set thereof - i f the 
sequences differ sufficiently you should get excellent differentiation (we got 
immediate diffn of closely-related virus PCR prod of 300 bp with Acc1, eg)


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