DNA Modifying Enzymes (Michael Blaber) Introduction to bacterial restriction/modification system. It provides very useful background knowledge about restriction digestion
DNA Modifying Enzymes (Michael Blaber) Very useful guide to DNA modifying enzymes and their applications including methylases, polymerases, nucleases, ligases, kinase, phosphatase
·Restriction Disgestion: Basic Procedures(LaboratoryExperiments.com) Basic procedures for high school students, But very useful if you are new to molecular biology.
Restriction Digestions (Dr. Chastain) There are generally 2 kinds of restriction digests: a diagnostic digest and a preparative digest
Restriction Digestion of Plasmid, Cosmid, and Phage DNAs(Donis Keller Lab) This is a generalized example of a restriction digest. Estimate the amount of DNA needed in your digest and scale up accordingly. To visualize a digest on an ethidium bromide-stained agarose gel, you will need to take the size of the fragments and the total size of the clone DNA into account (e. g. 10-50 ng of intact lambda-sized genomes (~50 kb) are easily seen on gels but if cut into small (~1kb fragments), the relative proportion of the clone DNA in each fragment is ~ 1/50 and more DNA (500-1000 ng) should be loaded in order to see them).
Preparation and Restriction Digestion of Human Cells in Agarose Beads(Donis Keller Lab) To prepare high molecular weight DNA in a medium with high surface area, to facilitate complete digestion with restriction enzymes.The DNA prepared in agarose beads is also suitable for use in constructing YAC libraries.
·Cleavage Efficiency Close to the Termini of PCR Fragments (Fermentas) When designing PCR experiments in which the synthesized DNA fragment is to be subsequently digested with a RE, it is very important to determine how many extra nucleotides should be added to the 5’-end of the PCR primer next to the introduced recognition site to ensure efficient cleavage with the appropriate restriction endonuclease. Some restriction endonucleases cleave DNA poorly when their recognition sites are located at the ends of DNA fragments. Information on restriction endonuclease performance close to the end of DNA fragments may be helpful when planning the introduction of cleavage sites at DNA termini in PCR experiments.
Ligation
·DNA ligation(Roe, OU) DNA ligations are performed by incubating DNA fragments with appropriately linear zed cloning vector in the presence of buffer, rATP, and T4 DNA ligase.
·Standard Ligation (Schneitz Lab) Detailed guide for ligation reaction
·FAQs for Restriction Endonucleases (LTI) What are the best conditions for double digests? What buffer do you recommend for double digests? How far from the end of a DNA fragment will a specific enzymes can digest? and more...
Thermal Inactivation (Fermentas) A simple, reversible way to a stop restriction reaction is by adding EDTA, which chelates Mg2+, thereby preventing catalysis. If further manipulations of the digested DNA are to be performed, the restriction endonuclease should be inactivated. Phenol/chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation is an irreversible method for inactivation and removal of all restriction endonucleases...