Plasmid DNA Purification
MACHEREY-NAGEL – 01/2008/ Rev. 04
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Kit specifications
•
NucleoBond
®
Xtra kits
are suitable for ultra fast purification of plasmids,
cosmids, and very large constructs (P1 constructs, BACs, PACs) ranging from
3 kbp up to 300 kb. For preparation of working solutions and storage condi-
tions see section 5.
•
NucleoBond
®
Xtra columns
are polypropylene columns containing
Nu-
cleoBond
®
Xtra silica resin
packed between two inert filter elements. The
columns are available in Midi and Maxi sizes with typical DNA yields of 250 µg
and 1000 µg, respectively.
•
All
NucleoBond
®
Xtra columns
are resistant to organic solvents such as al-
cohol, chloroform, and phenol and are also suitable for buffers containing de-
naturing agents like formamide, urea, or common detergents like Triton X-100
or NP-40.
•
NucleoBond
®
Xtra silica resin
can be used over a wide pH range (pH
2.5–8.5), and can remain in contact with buffers for several hours without any
change in its chromatographic properties.
•
The
NucleoBond
®
Xtra column filters
are specially designed depth filters
that fit into the
NucleoBond
®
Xtra columns
. The filters are inserted ready-to-
use in the
NucleoBond
®
Xtra columns
and
allow a time-saving simultaneous
clearing of bacterial lysate and loading of cleared lysate onto the
Nu-
cleoBond
®
Xtra column
. Furthermore, the use of the column filters avoids the
time-consuming centrifugation step for lysate clearing.
•
The
NucleoBond
®
Xtra column filters
allow complete removal of precipitate
even with large lysate volumes without clogging and
avoid shearing of large
DNA constructs, such as PACs or BACs by the gentle depth filter effect.
•
The
NucleoBond
®
Xtra Midi Plus
and
NucleoBond
®
Xtra Maxi Plus
kits ad-
ditionally contain the
NucleoBond
®
Finalizers
and
NucleoBond
®
Finalizers
Large,
respectively. These tools for a fast concentration and desalination of
eluates are suitable for most plasmids and cosmids ranging from 2-50 kbp with
recovery efficiencies from 40-90% (depending on elution volume).
•
NucleoBond
®
Finalizer
is a polypropylene syringe filter containing a special
silica membrane. The
NucleoBond
®
Finalizer
provides a
binding capacity of
500 µg, whereas the
NucleoBond
®
Finalizer Large
can hold up to 2000 µg
plasmid DNA.
•
Due to the small dead volumes of the
NucleoBond
®
Finalizers
the plasmid
DNA can be eluted with a concentration up to 3 µg/µl (see section 4.11, Table
4 and 5 for dependence of concentration on elution volume).
•
All
NucleoBond
®
Finalizers
are resistant to organic solvents such as alcohol,
chloroform, and phenol and are free of endotoxins.