Plasmids 101: Colony PCR
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Blog Post
Published
May 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
..., just streak the colonies on an LB plate. You can use this plate to start liquid cultures. Lastly, you...polymerase) using the supernatant of lysed bacteria as template; and 3) run your PCR product on a gel to analyze... to preparing a standard PCR reaction: combine template, primers, polymerase, and dNTPs and then incubate...released from the bacteria in order to serve as PCR template. Dealing with this and a few other colony PCR ...PCR tips are highlighted below.
Preparing template: Pick a single colony with a sterile flat toothpick...background colonies on your no ligation control plate. The more background, the more colonies you will...remaining bacteria-water suspension will serve as the template for your PCR reaction. You just need to lyse the...