Using TdT to clean up sequencing reactions?

[drdad at ktc.com]

In article <edwardm-2008961504110001 at 128.97.216.217>,
edwardm at hhmi.ucla.edu wrote:

>    Recently a company sales rep told me that really clean sequencing gels
> that are produced from various companies are cleaned up using TdT.  This
> enzymes apparently can add lots of nucleotides to the newly synthesized
> DNA strands that are not terminated by the dideoxy nucleotides in the
> mixes.  Thus those annoying stops in all four lanes are eliminated because
> the ssDNA never really runs into the gel.
>    My questions is: Does anybody have a protocol for how this is done?

Hello,

I've tried the TdT technique and really prefer the Klenow co-sequencing
method referred to in Biotechniques Vol 17, pg. 286 (1994). I use this as
part of my routine sequencing protocol now.

Good luck!

Felix Guerrero
drdad at ktc.com