Team:Chiba/protocol/gelcheck
From 2008.igem.org
Agarose gel electrophoresis
- Agalose Gel casting
- Measure out the appropriate mass of agarose into glass bottle with the appropriate volume of TAE buffer
- Microwave until the agarose is fully melted
- Pour the agarose solution into the gelbox and let it cool for about 30 minutes, until the gel is solid
- Remove comb
- Running agalose gel
- Load 5 μL prepared 1kbp ladder
- Mix DNA solution with loading dye(6x) and water
- Load it into agalose gel
- Run the gel at ~100 volts for 35 mins.
- Visualizing agarose gels
- Remove gel from gel box
- Soak the gel in ethidium bromide solution
- Let it 30 min.
- Place the gel in Trans-Illuminator and turn on UV light after make sure the door closing.
- Print the picture.
- Remove gel and throw in trash
- Wipe down Trans-Illuminator if necessary.