UV safe TAE ?

[Rico Laage]

Ed Beaty wrote:
> 
> One thing you can try is using longwave UV when cutting your bands out of the gel.  The intense shortwave UV
> generated by transilluminators may be blasting your DNA.  Also, check the methds-reagents FAQ...your question
> sounds familiar, and I wonder if it's been answered (better) before.
> 
> Ed Beaty
> Pierce Chemical Company
>
I agree with you ,
I didn´t wanted to start another round of "gel extraction - Ligation -problems- 
discussions"  my question was more does this product makes any sense or is 
it just another expensive fency looking waste. We use longwave UV in our lab 
and most of the time we don´t have problems but we´re always looking for 
improvement in any method we use

RICO
 
> Rico Laage wrote:
> >
> > dear colleagues
> >
> > I read in an add about UV safe TAE-buffer for DNA-gels, they said, that by
> > adding UV-protective chemicals to their buffer they could increase their
> > cloning efficiency about  200X  !!!!
> > I can`t believe this number but I would like to know if anybody out there ever
> > tried this buffer or has any suggestions about it-
> > What chemicals are used for UV-protection (e.g. in sunblockers) ?
> >
> > Rico
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