One line of ChargeSwitch products uses 96-well plates coated with ChargeSwitch for easy and direct purification of gDNA for PCR or qPCR without the need to elute your DNA sample.
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Invitrogen ChargeSwitch nucleic acid purification technology is the simplest, cleanest, and most effective means of purifying both DNA and RNA, and can be configured in a range of product formats including simple manual purification methods as well as high-throughput automated applications. ChargeSwitch technology is based on a simple ion-exchange mechanism that uses a surface ligand that is positively charged at low pH, and neutral at pH 8.5 to bind and elute plasmid.
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ChargeSwitch nucleic acid purification technology (CST) takes advantage of a unique ionizable (switchable) coating that can be covalently affixed to the surface of magnetic or
ChargeSwitch-based protocols
Figure 1. Protocol. The ChargeSwitch Technology features a charged nucleic acid–binding surface that is “switchable” by changing the pH of the surrounding buffer. At low pH, the surface is positively charged and binds the negatively charged nucleic acid backbone, allowing easy removal of proteins and other contaminants using a simple wash step.
ChangeSwitch technology formats
ChargeSwitch technology can be used in a variety of formats—from magnetic beads to coated plates to spin columns.
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ChargeSwitch technology was also developed to coat a membrane for use in a column format for plasmid minipreps and PCR clean-up. The ChargeSwitch-Pro Plasmid miniprep and PCR Clean-up protocols retain the ease and familiarity of the common silica spin column protocol with a binding, washing, and elution step, making adapting to the ChargeSwitch method effortless.
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Unlike classic ion exchange or silica-based nucleic acid purification technologies, ChargeSwitch-based DNA and RNA purification is 100% water-based and does not require the use of ethanol, chaotropic salts, organic solvents or time consuming precipitation steps. Purified, the resulting nucleic acid lacks these potentially inhibitory compounds—improving DNA or RNA integrity for downstream performance in applications such as PCR (see Figure 2), qPCR, RT-PCR, Restriction Enzyme digestion, STR analysis, sequencing, whole genome amplification (WGA), and other similar applications. As a result, ChargeSwitch-based protocols can offer significant performance benefits. Additionally, it excels at extracting DNA from forensic samples and buccal scrapes.
Figure 2. ChargeSwitch technology for plasmid purification. The inhibitory reagents used in most plasmid purification techniques are difficult to detect when measuring DNA quality on gels or by UV spectrophotometry. They can, however, inhibit enzymatic reactions. The actin gene was amplified by PCR from human placental DNA in a 50 µL reaction spiked with varying volumes of ethanol, isopropanol (IPA) and a competitor wash buffers, guanidinium isothiocyanate (GTC) and ChargeSwitch wash buffer. Ten microliters of amplified product run on a 1% agarose gel and stained with ethidium bromide.
| Nucleic Acid Species | Application | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Genomic DNA | Animal tissues and cells | ChargeSwitch gDNA Mini Tissue Kit |
| Genomic DNA | Bacteria | ChargeSwitch gDNA Mini Bacteria Kit |
| Genomic DNA | Plant tissues and cells, and fungi | ChargeSwitch gDNA Plant |
| Genomic DNA | Buccal cells | ChargeSwitch gDNA Buccal Cell Kit |
| Genomic DNA | Forensic samples | ChargeSwitch Forensic DNA Purification Kit |
| Genomic DNA | Blood and blood-derived samples | ChargeSwitch gDNA 50–100 µL Blood Kit |
| Plasmid DNA | Miniprep Columns | ChargeSwitch Pro Plasmid Miniprep Kit |
| DNA | PCR reaction clean-up | ChargeSwitch PCR Clean-Up Kit |
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