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  • herter
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2015
    • 8

    Magnesium + heat = Shear DNA?

    I know in some RNA-Seq protocols magnesium and heat are used to shear the RNA. I'm curious if magnesium and heat will also shear DNA?
    Thanks!
  • ECO
    --Site Admin--
    • Oct 2007
    • 1360

    #2
    Without a 2' -OH, the DNA won't shear.

    Magnesium is in high concentrations in every PCR buffer also.

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    • nucacidhunter
      Jafar Jabbari
      • Jan 2013
      • 1250

      #3
      If you are looking for metal ion based DNA shearing see the following:

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      • ECO
        --Site Admin--
        • Oct 2007
        • 1360

        #4
        Anyone tried this? ^^

        Seems gloriously too good to be true.

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        • herter
          Junior Member
          • Feb 2015
          • 8

          #5
          Thanks for the replies! Any recommendations on chemical or enzymatic shearing for DNA and RNA (TNA) at the same time? We do mechanical shearing now for TNA, but hoping to find a faster/easier approach.

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          • nucacidhunter
            Jafar Jabbari
            • Jan 2013
            • 1250

            #6
            It is possible to use combination of DNA fragmenting enzyme such as NEB fragmentase with RNase III. The issue would be buffer and incubation temperature and time requirement which can be overcome by treating with one enzyme followed by dilution and adding other enzyme and buffer without a need for clean up in between and optimising enzyme quantity.

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            • Adobe Freeman
              Junior Member
              • Jun 2019
              • 1

              #7
              DNA Fragmentation at Taq Premix

              recently I have tried it
              Add 400ng Lambda DNA(48.5K) into 1X Taq Premix with 2mM MgCl2,
              it shows clearly fragmentation more than 1min at 95C if more 4min median of fragment is around several Kilo; 95C 16min most of fragment is small than 1K.

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