Extraction of Nucleic Acids from Agarose Gel -A Quantitative and Qualitative Comparison of Four Different Methods

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Abstract
Agarose gel electrophoresis is commonly used to separate different species of nucleic acids. We compare four different methods of extraction which are commonly used. These methods include buffer extraction, electroelution, glass bead extraction and extraction of DNA from low-melting agarose. The results show that DNA extracted by these four methods is comparable in their ligability to the PMT 21 vectors and the plasmids with insert can be used for subsequent transfections of competent bacteria. There is a higher yield for buffer extraction and electroelution when compared with glass bead extraction and low melting agarose (p<0.05). To conclude, the four commonly used methods for DNA isolation are comparable qualitatively. But the simplest method, namely buffer extraction, has the highest yield.

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