{"id":264,"date":"2012-04-10T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/?page_id=264"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:20:10","slug":"common-laboratory-solutions-and-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/laboratory-protocols\/common-laboratory-solutions-and-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Laboratory Solutions and Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Ethidium bromide solutions for gel staining<\/h3>\n<p>Stock solution is 10 mg\/mL and is made with deionized water.\u00a0 Store the stock solution at 4\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Add 4 \u00b5L of the stock solution to 100 mL of dissolved agarose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>DNA Sample Loading Buffer<\/h3>\n<p>There are several solutions that can be used.<\/p>\n<p>1) 0.25 (w\/v) % bromophenol blue; 0.25% (w\/v) xylene cyanol; 30% glycerol.<\/p>\n<p>Make a 10 mL solution and store at either 4\u00b0C or -20\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>[This is the answer to the question.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>TE<\/h3>\n<p>This is a common solution used in molecular biology and is the abbreviation for a 10 mM Tris, 1 mM EDTA solution.\u00a0 The pH of the solution is usually 8.0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>0.5 M EDTA<\/h3>\n<p>Add 186.1 g of disodium EDTA (always double check molecular weight and calculations) to 800 mL of dH2O.\u00a0 Adjust the pH to 8.0 with NaOH (ca. 20 g of NaOH pellets).\u00a0 Adjust volume to 1 L.\u00a0 Dispense into aliquots and autoclave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>IPTG<\/h3>\n<p>Isopropylthio-\u00df-D-galactoside (m.w. = 238.3).\u00a0 Make a solution of IPTG by dissolving 2 g of IPTG in 8 mL of dH2O.\u00a0 Adjust volume to 10 mL and sterilize by filtration through a 0.22 \u00b5 disposable filter.\u00a0 Dispense the solution in 1 mL aliquots and store them at -20\u00b0 C.<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>D.L. Robertson<br \/>\nRevised:\u00a0March 10, 2009\u00a0.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethidium bromide solutions for gel staining Stock solution is 10 mg\/mL and is made with deionized water.\u00a0 Store the stock solution at 4\u00b0C. Add 4 \u00b5L of the stock solution to 100 mL of dissolved agarose. &nbsp; DNA Sample Loading &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/laboratory-protocols\/common-laboratory-solutions-and-methods\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common Laboratory Solutions and Methods<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}