Direct sequencing PCR product - for bisulfite sequencing (Jul/27/2011 )

Hi all

My boss wants us to save money instead of using expensive TOPO kits. I was wondering if anyone has sequenced PCR products from bisulfite treated DNA?

Otherwise, what cloning vectors do you use for bisulfite sequencing?
Thanks

You can do direct sequencing of the BSP products. We once made a side by side comparison between direct sequencing and sequencing after cloning (sequencing at least 10 clones), and found results from both methods are pretty consistent. The drawback is that not every PCR product gives you a nice sequencing result, in contrast, sequencing plasmids give you very clean results. Another drawback is that direct sequencing only give you the average methylation level of cpg sites, but not the methylation profile of a single DNA molecule.

pGEMT easy works just as well, TOPO is quite expensive.

thanks

I would prefer to sequence from clones but cost is now a big issue. Will see how much pGEM is