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Alkaline lysis method - (Dec/03/2009 )

Why spin down and resuspend the bacteria before adding lysis buffer is neccessary?

-yoyoyoyo-

yoyoyoyo on Dec 3 2009, 04:01 AM said:

Why spin down and resuspend the bacteria before adding lysis buffer is neccessary?


Probably because the lysisbuffer would be diluted by the broth and because the broth contains a lot of protein which can be removed that way.

-warsel-