Nitrocellulose membrane and UV cross-linking.

[Kathleen Schroeder]

I used to do UV crosslinking for plaque lifts on nitrocellulose all the time 
and had good luck. 

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<Pine.A41.3.95b.961204105651.154004A-100000 at homer35.u.washington.edu>, 
yoonpark at u.washington.edu says...
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>Hi, everyone,
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>I'm trying to colony hybridization using nitrocellulose membrane (S&S).
>According to the manual which the manufacturer provided, vacuum drying oven
>should be used to fix DNA onto nitrocellulose, but UV cross-linker can be
>used for nylon membrane.  Is it true that UV cross-linker cannot be used
>for nitrocellulose membrane for this purpose? If it's, why?
>
>If someone knows about this, can you explain it to me?
>Thanks in advance!
>
>YP.
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