Automated Purification and Quantification of Oligonucleotides
Author(s) -
Kathryn M. Ivanetich,
Ralph Reid,
Ross Ellison,
Kathy M. Perry,
R.G. Taylor,
M. Reschenberg,
Avantika Mainieri,
Debin Zhu,
J. Argo,
Darrell L. Cass,
Corey Strickland
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/99274rr04
Subject(s) - oligonucleotide , yield (engineering) , chromatography , cartridge , extraction (chemistry) , dna , chemistry , materials science , biochemistry , metallurgy
We have developed automated methods for the trityl-on purification and quantification of synthetic oligonucleotides. Oligonucleotide purification is by solid-phase extraction cartridges using Amberchrom CG-50 resin on an XYZ-axis robotic system. Quantification is by OD260nm using an online UV-visible spectrophotometer with sipper. The purification of 20 oligonucleotides requires 5 min of user set-up time, plus 20 min per sample of robot time. For a 15-25-mer at the 40 nmol scale of synthesis, the method gives a yield of 2.8 ODs from a load of 10.1 OD, i.e., a 28% average yield. Oligonucleotides purified by this method have proven to be successful for primers for automated DNA sequencing.
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