Knight:In vitro transcription
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Purpose
In vitro transcription using Escherichia coli RNA polymerase.
Materials
Reaction conditions
Epicentre
Functional test
50 μL reaction
- 1X E. coli RNA polymerase transcription buffer
- 0.04 M Tris-HCl (pH 7.5)
- 0.15 M KCl
- 10 mM MgCl2
- 0.01% Triton® X-100
- 2mM DTT
- 0.25mM NTPs
- 1μg T7 D111 DNA as template
Assay test
50 μL reaction
- 1X E. coli RNA polymerase transcription buffer
- 0.04 M Tris-HCl (pH 7.5)
- 0.15 M KCl
- 10 mM MgCl2
- 0.01% Triton® X-100
- 10 mM DTT
- 0.5 mM NTPs
- 1μg T7 D111 DNA as template
Szalewska-Palasz et al.
25 μL reaction
- Buffer M
- 20 mM Hepes, pH 8.0
- 5 mM magnesium acetate
- 4 mM DTT
- 1 mM EDTA
- 1mM ATP
- BSA (5mg/mL)
- 0.2% Triton X-100
- 5% glycerol
- 5 μg template DNA
- Add repressor
- Incubate 5min at 37°C
- Transfer samples to ice bath
- Add 1 unit E. coli RNAP from Epicentre
- Add 150 μM CTP and GTP
- Add 1 mM ATP
- Add 15 μM UTP
- Add [α-32P]UTP to 1mCi/mL
- Incubate samples at 37°C for 12.5 mins
- Stop reaction with equal volume of
- BSA (1.2mg/mL)
- 0.1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0
- 5.1 M ammonium acetate
- Transfer to ice bath
- Precipitate RNA with 2 volumes 96% ethanol in liquid nitrogen
- Centrifuge in microcentrifuge at maximum speed for 30 mins
- Dry pellet
- Resuspend in 20 μL of
- 98% formamide
- 0.25% bromophenol blue
- 0.25% xylene cyanol
- Incubate at 65°C for 5 mins
- Electrophorese in 6% polyacrylamide gel containing 46% urea in TBE buffer at 30mA
- Dry the gel
- Visualize RNA bands by autoradiography and quantify via densitometry