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extracting DNA frm agarose gel no result - (Jan/09/2007 )

Hi all
this is my first post, I am stucked with a problem here.....I was trying to extract my PCR product (114bp,203bp). using Qiazen gel extraction kit ,later when I checked it again on 1.5% agarose gel I got no band. That means no result.The only thing I did differently is I took the columns from Qiazen miniprep kit .as my columns from gel extraction kit were finished.......
Plz give me some suggestions regarding this.
Thanks in advance.

regards
Vani

-vani.khare-

I think it is the problem that you've used columns from the miniprep kit. There is a difference between them, the gel extraction kit is designed for linear fragments and the miniprep columns for circular DNA.
You could have used the qiagen pcr clean-up columns from a pcr cleaning kit, these columns are the same as the gel extraction columns.

-aspergillie-

I think the other kind of columns available with me at present is from intron RNA spin kit, will that solve the problem??? I need it urgently and it will take long time to process the order, and if this is the problem Is there any alternative way to come out of it????

-vani.khare-

QUOTE (mdfenko @ Jan 9 2007, 07:17 PM)
leo, august

well i'm not sure, but here are some insights about prufying from gel without columns. (start from the post of haringsh)

-fred_33-