Sterilize E-poration cuvettes ?

[Hiranya Roychowdhury]

On 23 May 1995, Andy Phillips wrote:

> seab at nucleus (Stefan Baeckstroem) wrote:
> >
> >  Hello Electroporating people.
> > 
> > How do you sterilize the single-use cuvettes from Bio-rad ?
> 
> I soak them in 5% bleach for about 10 minutes, rinse ten times 
> in distilled water and store under ethanol. Eventually the chlorine
> will pit the electrodes and reduce efficiency of transformation, but
> the cuvettes seem to be reusable for at least ten times.
> 
> Andy
> > 

A word of caution here: some disposable cuvettes will simply dissolve in 
95% ethanol. So may be a 20% or so EtOH should be used if storage of 
cuvettes is intended. We had a dry sterilization chamber in one of our 
Prof.'s lab that used peroxide cans (?). The plastic stuff could be 
sealed in special pourous bags, sterilized that way and stored for future 
use.

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			  Hiranya S. Roychowdhury
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