Molecular Biology Protocol - Restriction Digest of Plasmid DNA
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...Restriction enzyme digestion is commonly used in molecular cloning techniques, such as PCR or restriction...digest typically involves ∼500 ng of DNA, while molecular cloning often requires 1 µg of DNA. The total ... from 10-50 µL depending on application and is largely determined by the volume of DNA to be cut. A typical...will need to use a phosphatase to prevent re-circularization of the vector if you are cloning in an insert...sites . Sometimes enzymes cut sequences which are similar, but not identical, to their recognition sites....website about star activity . If you are digesting a large number of plasmids with the same enzyme(s) (for ...