DNA purification from polyacrylamide gels / kits?

[Paul N Hengen]

Timo Hiltunen wrote:

| I am looking for a KIT for DNA purification from polyacrylamide gels.
| I know the procedure in the Red Book, but does an even easier one 
| exist? 
| 
| All the kits for DNA purification from gels that I've seen 
| are designed for agarose.

A kit?!??? >:^{

Electroelute it against 6,000-8,000 MW cutoff dialysis tubing in TBE.
This gives me nearly 100% recovery of 50-200 bp DNA. Build your own
device or use the eppi-tube technique. References are in here. Grab
it at my FTP site.

@article{Hengen1994Septibs,
author = "P. N. Hengen",
title = "Methods and reagents - Recovering {DNA} from agarose gels",
journal = "Trends in Biochemical Sciences",
volume = "19",
number = "9",
pages = "388-389",
month = "sep",
year = "1994"}

-Paul.

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