Spin column-based nucleic acid purification

Spin column-based nucleic acid purification
Silica on a minicolumn with water and with DNA sample in chaotropic buffer

Column-based nucleic acid purification is a solid phase extraction method to quickly purify nucleic acids.
This method relies on the fact that the nucleic acid may bind (adsorption) to the solid phase (silica or other) depending on the pH and the salt content of the buffer, which may be a Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer or Phosphate buffer (used in DNA microarray experiments due to the reactive amines).
Therefore, three stages are:

Even prior to the major techniques employed today it was known that in the presence of chaotropic agents, such as sodium iodide or sodium perchlorate, DNA binds to silica, glass particles or to unicellular algae called diatoms which shield their cell walls with silica. This property was used to purify nucleic acid using glass powder or silica beads under alkaline conditions. [1] This was later improved used guanidinium thiocyanate or guanidinium hydrochloride as the chaotropic agent. [2] The use of beads was later changed to minicolumns.

For explanation of how the silicon and DNA bind see separation by silica adsorption

See also

References

  1. ^ Marko MA, Chipperfield R, Birnboim HC. A procedure for the large-scale isolation of highly purified plasmid DNA using alkaline extraction and binding to glass powder. Anal Biochem. 1982 Apr;121(2):382-7. PMID: 6179438
  2. ^ Boom R, Sol CJ, Salimans MM, Jansen CL, Wertheim-van Dillen PM, van der Noordaa J. Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids. J Clin Microbiol. 1990 Mar;28(3):495-503. PMID: 1691208

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