TCA on nucleic acid

[Joseph C. Bagshaw]

In article <2ud4mc$co2 at dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> eqfvari at dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Frank Vari) writes:
>Could anyone please tell me what the effect of 10% aqueous trichloroacetic
>acid (TCA) is on nucleic acids? Are there any good references that someone
>could point me in the direction of? Please Email me or post a response here. 
>
>Many thanks. 
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>* Frank Vari at the Australian Equine Blood Typing Research Lab.    *
>* University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, 4072.    *
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>*	Email:	F.Vari at mailbox.uq.oz.au                             * 
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10% TCA will precipitate DNA, RNA, proteins, and you if
your not carefull.  TCA precipitation is often used to
prepare samples for liquid scintillation counting, e.g.
proteins or R/DNA radiolabelled in vitro or in vivo.  
It can also be used to precipitate proteins and concentrate
them prior to SDS PAGE.  It's not a nice thing to do if
you want to recover anything functional.

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