Isolation and Quantification of DNA.

Purifying DNA is the key to successful cloning. The cleaner the final preparation of DNA, the more efficient will be the enzymatic reactions that use the DNA as a template or a substrate. In the 1930s and 1940s, the scientific literature began to accumulate methods to release DNA from cells and to remove cellular constituents that inhibit or act as competitors on enzymatically catalyzed reactions. Since then, thousands of protocols for purification of DNA from a wide variety of organisms, tissues, and bodily fluids have been published. This introduction provides an overview of methods for isolation and quantification of DNA.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

• Publication date

  2018-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1101/pdb.top093336PMID 29858343
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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