Washing the blot
- Add about 20 ml 2X SSPE/0.1% SDS to the tube. Mix and pour out. Be careful of loose drops.
- Fill tube ≈ 1/3 -1/2 full with 2X SSPE/0.1% SDS and incubate at 56℃ for 30 min.
- Repeat with 1X SSPE/0.1% SDS and 0.1X SSPE/0.1% SDS until background counts are below 1000 cpm.
Keep washing with 0.1X SSPE/0.1% SDS if the counts are high. Washes can go longer than 20 min.
The stringency of the washes depends on the nature of the probe. - Wrap the blot with Saran wrap making sure there are no wrinkles.
- Expose to autoradiography film overnight or to a Molecular Imager screen for 1 hr.
Adjust exposure time accordingly. The time on the screen is roughly one-tenth to what it would be on film.SOLUTIONS
- GITC buffer (200 ml):
- 94.53 g Guanidine isothiocyanate (4 M final)
- 1.67 ml 3 M NaOAc, pH 6
- Bring volume to 200 ml
- Add 1.67 ml ß-mercaptoethanol
- Store a 4℃ and away from light
- CsCl buffer (100 ml):
- 95.97 g CsCl (5.7 M final)
- 0.83 ml 3 M NaOAc, pH 6
- Bring volume to 100 ml
- Sterile filter with 0.8 µm
- (This is optional.)
- 10X MOPS:
- 0.4 M 3-[N-Morpholino] propanesulfonic acid, pH 7.0
- 0.1 M Sodium acetate
- 10 mM EDTA (pH 8.0)
- Prepare in DEPC water. OK if solution turns yellow.
- Autoclave to sterilize.
- DEPC water:
- Add DEPC to ddH2O at 1:1000 dilution
- Let it sit overnight at room temp (destroys RNase)
- Autoclave the next day (destroys DEPC)
- RNA sample buffer (7.25 ml):
- 0.5 ml 10X MOPS
- 1.75 ml 37% Formaldehyde
- 5.0 ml Formamide
- Keep away from light!
- Store at -20℃
- RNA loading buffer:
- 50% Glycerol
- 1 mM EDTA
- 0.25% Bromophenol blue
- 0.25% Xylene cyanol
- Use DEPC water, keep at 4℃
- 2X Slaman hybe:
- 2% SDS
- 2 M NaCl
- Will not be in solution at RT
- Keep at 4℃
- 20X SSPE:
- 3.6 M NaCl
- 0.2 M NaH2PO4-H2O
- 0.02 M EDTA
- pH to 7.7

