Fw: Fw: Fw: What is the effect of a 5' overhang on gel mobility?

[Deanne Bell]

Thanks for the lesson  - I respect & appreciate your input :-)
D. Bell

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> From: Dr. Duncan Clark <Duncan at nospam.demon.co.uk>
> Quite simply, when you run restriction fragments on gels they are never
> usually denatured! Denaturing gels are primarily run for sequencing.
> 
> Restriction fragment gels are usually agarose based and sequencing gels
> are always acrylamide based. Small restriction fragments are run on non-
> denaturing acrylamide gels.
> 
> Agarose gels will not resolve 500bp fragments to better than say 10bp
> and above that you are talking about maybe resolution of 100bp for 10kb
> fragments.
> 
> 4bp will only resolve on very small fragments on high percentage agarose
> or on acrylamide.
> 
> But will a 4bp overhang matter?
> 
> I'm guessing it will matter only if you have small fragment run on
> acrylamide gel when the resolution of the gel is high enough to show it.
> But even then I'm not sure whether a ds restriction digested DNA
> fragment with a 4bp 5' or 3' overhang will actually run different from
> the same fragment but blunt i.e.
> 
> will
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> run at the same size as an identical but blunt sequence
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> All strands are the same length but one has an overhang.
> 
> I'm curious because of 100bp markers etc. Different companies sell the
> similar ladders but prepared differently i.e. digested plasmids but I'm
> never sure if they are blunt fragments or sticky.
> 
> Duncan
> 
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> sliced from time to time....
> 
> Duncan Clark
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