I am working with labeled oligonucleotide as a sensor for silver. Can someone tell me about the composition of a buffer and the concentration which will be free from any chloride or sulfate, for annealing oligonucleotide?
Hi Samrat, as you can neither use the normal phospate buffer, due to heavy metal= precipitation, I recommend you to use HEPES (pKA= 7.2.). On the other hand, I am curious why you can not use the normal Tris-HCl one, I have never observed silver precipitation in presence of this buffer. Regards.
"When making a Tris buffer, it is important to use a Tris-compatible electrode when adjusting the pH. Single-junction Ag/AgCl electrodes can exhibit instability when used with Tris buffers because the silver gradually precipitates and clogs the electrode."
That being said, there is a lot of work already on the detection of metal ions and or the complexation of Ag+ by DNA: