Team:EPF-Lausanne/Protocols/Ligation

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To control ligation specificity, you need to have a '''control with the vector only'''.
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==Incubation==

Revision as of 08:04, 4 September 2009

Contents

Ligation Protocol





Reaction mix

T4 ligase buffer 1 µl
T4 ligase 0.5 µl

6:1 molar ratio of insert to vector (~10 ng of vector).
Complete with dH2O up to 10 µl.

Molar ratio

formule

Notes

In general, we can take 1 µl of vector for 3 µl of insert. But you can change the molar ratio in case the sizes of the insert and the vector are really different.

To control ligation specificity, you need to have a control with the vector only.

Incubation

1h at Room Temperature.