smear Northern

[Klaus Salger]

kankaku wrote:
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> various membranes, various hybridization solutions.  But, nothing improved
> the smear, but specific band.  Of course, my RNA sample looks very intact
> because signals for other transcripts as well as rRNA are beautiful. I 
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Hi,

maybe your probe(s) contain some abundant sequences. I had this problem
once. Using a full length cDNA as probe gave lots of smear which was
impossible to get rid of. I solved the problem by probing with a
fragment which contains just coding sequence without repeats. This
resulted in clear bands - no smear.

So if your probe contains regions of low complexity or (conserved?)
non-coding regions I would recommend using a sub-fragment.


Hope this helps
  Klaus

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