fragment isolation problem

[Chris Boyd]

Francisco Villamon (fvillamon at hotmail.com) wrote:
: Hi all!
: I want to isolate one fragment to cloning.....the problem is the 
: separation of  one fragment about 2.4 kb from another one about 2.9 kb 
: in an agarose gel. The difference beetwen both after running is so short 
: making difficult the isolation by gel cutting.

You've got to be joking.  That's a 20% difference in size, which for
that size range means the fragments are quite easily resolvable on a
0.8% gel. All you need do is run the gel further -- say until the blue
dye is 10 cm or so from the wells.

Best wishes,
-- 
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