Process for the purification of DNA on diatomaceous earth
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1. In a process for the purification of DNA from a liquid mixture comprising such by:
- (a) combining said liquid mixture with a chaotropic agent and contacting the resulting combination mixture with silica by either forming a slurry of said combination mixture with silica, passing said combination mixture through a membrane in which silica is entrapped, or passing said combination mixture through an absorption column packed with silica, to selectively adsorb said DNA onto said silica,(b) washing said silica with a buffer containing from about 20% to about 95% of a lower alkyl alcohol to remove non-adsorbed matter, and(c) eluting said DNA from said silica with water or a low salt buffer, the improvement in which said silica is diatomaceous earth.
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This invention is directed to a process for the purification of plasmid and other DNA, both single-stranded and double-stranded, by immobilizing the DNA onto diatomaceous earth in the presence of a chaotropic agent and eluting the DNA with water or low salt buffer. The resulting purified DNA is biologically active. Also included in the invention is a process for the immobilization of DNA onto diatomaceous earth in the presence of a chaotropic agent.
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1. In a process for the purification of DNA from a liquid mixture comprising such by:
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(a) combining said liquid mixture with a chaotropic agent and contacting the resulting combination mixture with silica by either forming a slurry of said combination mixture with silica, passing said combination mixture through a membrane in which silica is entrapped, or passing said combination mixture through an absorption column packed with silica, to selectively adsorb said DNA onto said silica, (b) washing said silica with a buffer containing from about 20% to about 95% of a lower alkyl alcohol to remove non-adsorbed matter, and (c) eluting said DNA from said silica with water or a low salt buffer, the improvement in which said silica is diatomaceous earth. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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