How to get rid of excess adaptors?

[John Dixon]

Hi all,

I am trying to make a lambda library of mouse genomic fragments. I have
digested with various enzymes and added adaptors so that I can clone them
all into the same site in the lambda vector I want to use. I can see on a
gel that the adaptors (dephosphorylated) work as after their addition the
DNA will no longer religate, whereas unadapted DNA religates nicely.

Anyway now I need to get rid of the excess adaptors before I go any
further. I don't want to gel purify if I can help it, so what do you
recommend?

Can I use sephadex G50 spin columns and if so what is the nucleotide cut
off point? My adaptors are two 18mers annealed over a 14bp complementary
stretch, leaving a 4bp overhang. So 18mers must be retained but how much
of the small frags will stay in the beads?

Or am I better of using a PCR product purification set-up like QIAquick to
wash the primers away and then elute the DNA? 

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

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