100 mM calcium chloride (CaCl2):
- 1.48 g CaCl2-2H2O
- ddH2O to 100 ml
autoclave to sterilize (store at 4deg.C).
50 mM calcium chloride:
- 0.74 g CaCl2-2H2O
- ddH2O to 100 ml
autoclave to sterilize (store at 4deg.C).
Deionized formamide:
Stir formamide (Schwarz/Mann Biotech 800686) with Amberlite MB resin, 10 g. per 100 ml, for one hour to deionize; filter through Whatman 3MM paper, store in a dark bottle at room temperature or 4deg.C.
10X denaturing buffer: 200 mM Tris-HCl, pH 9.5, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM spermidine in double distilled water.
- 2 ml 1 M Tris-HCl, pH 9.5
- 20 ul 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0
- 1 ml 100 mM spermidine
- ddH2O to 10 ml (aliquot and store at -20℃)
- 20 ul 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0
Diatomaceous earth (100 mg/ml): Suspend 10 g of diatomaceous earth (Sigma D-5384) in 100 ml of distilled water in a 100 ml graduated cylinder, and let it settle down for 3 hours. Decant the supernatant, and resuspend the pellet in 100 ml of 6 M guanidine HCl, pH 6.4, containing 50 mM Tris-HCl, 20 mM EDTA.
Diatomaceous earth-wash buffer: 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0, 50% ethanol in double distilled water.
- 10 ml 1 M Tris-HCl, pH 8.0
- 2 ml 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0
- 500 ml 100% ethanol (McCormick Distilling Co., Inc.)
- ddH2O to 1 L
- 2 ml 0.5 M EDTA, pH 8.0
1 M DTT (Dithiothreitol, Cleland's reagent):
- 1.54 g DTT (Calbiochem 233155)
- ddH2O to 10 ml (aliquot and store at -20℃).
DNase-free RNase A
20 mg/ml RNase A in 1 mM NaOAc, pH 4.5.
- 200 mg RNase A (Sigma R-5500)
- 3.3 ul 3 M NaOAc, pH 4.5
- ddH2O to 10 ml
- 3.3 ul 3 M NaOAc, pH 4.5
boil for 10 minutes (aliquot and store at -20℃).

