Molecular Cloning By Sambrook

[Leroy Turcios]

MolecularCloning has served as the foundation of technical expertise in labs worldwide for 30 years. No other manual has been so popular, or so influential. Molecular Cloning, Fourth Edition, by the celebrated founding author Joe Sambrook and new co-author, the distinguished HHMI investigator Michael Green, preserves the highly praised detail and clarity of previous editions and includes specific chapters and protocols commissioned for the book from expert practitioners at Yale, U Mass, Rockefeller University, Texas Tech, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Washington University, and other leading institutions. The theoretical and historical underpinnings of techniques are prominent features of the presentation throughout, information that does much to help trouble-shoot experimental problems.

For the fourth edition of this classic work, the content has been entirely recast to include nucleic-acid based methods selected as the most widely used and valuable in molecular and cellular biology laboratories.

Core chapters from the third edition have been revised to feature current strategies and approaches to the preparation and cloning of nucleic acids, gene transfer, and expression analysis. They are augmented by 12 new chapters which show how DNA, RNA, and proteins should be prepared, evaluated, and manipulated, and how data generation and analysis can be handled.

The new content includes methods for studying interactions between cellular components, such as microarrays, next-generation sequencing technologies, RNA interference, and epigenetic analysis using DNA methylation techniques and chromatin immunoprecipitation. To make sense of the wealth of data produced by these techniques, a bioinformatics chapter describes the use of analytical tools for comparing sequences of genes and proteins and identifying common expression patterns among sets of genes.

Building on thirty years of trust, reliability, and authority, the fourth edition of Molecular Cloning is the new gold standard—the one indispensable molecular biology laboratory manual and reference source.

one more thing. you start with 800ml water, add 186.1gm edta and then about 20gm naoh. the final adjustment to 1 liter should be minimal.

you neither make adjusted solutions at the final volume (before adjustment) nor do you start with the final volume and then add to it.

Sambrook et al wrote their protocols because they worked, so it's not wise to decide they are wrong and just do your own thing before trying things their way. EDTA has very low solubility at low to neutral pH, which is why you need to throw in large amounts of NaOH to get it to dissolve. Remember it is an acid, so you shouldn't have to worry about adding extra acid.

Why are you wanting 1M EDTA? Most of the time, you only need 1 - 5 mM, so a 1M stock is not really necessary.

Hi If i am right, it is not possible to prepare 1M EDTA,ie what even sambrook and russell's molecular cloning book suggest to prepare 0.5M EDTA. And regarding calculation when the molecular weight is 372.24g/mol,then to prepare 1M solution you have to take 372.24g in 1litre and to prepare 0.5M you have to take 186.1g ie what sambrook and russell's molecular cloning book suggesting you.

But if you prepare it by adding excess of NaOH or HCL by any means it is wrong...and it has to go directly to dust bin

So point is you cannot or should not prepare 1M EDTA and there is nothing wrong in the book...

I added excess NaOH in preparing the 0.5 M EDTA overshooting the pH to 11.0, so I adjusted the pH using concd HCl. Unfortunately, I added excess HCl and EDTA started to solidify. This made me add NaOH again and finally I adjusted the pH of the solution to 8.0. Is this solution still valid for molecular biology use? If it is not, pls explain why..Thanks in advance.

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Plasmids occupy a place of honor in molecular cloning: They were used in the first recombinant DNA experiments and, 40 or more years later, they remain as the carriage horses of molecular cloning. After almost half a century of sequential improvement in design, today's plasmid vectors are available in huge variety, are often optimized for specific purposes, and bear only passing resemblance to their forebears. Here, various features of plasmid vectors and methods for transforming E. coli cells are introduced.

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