Is it very hard to transfect Hs578T cell ?

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Toxicity of Lipofectamine 3000?

Dear all, I have been struggling with transfection in Hs578t with my pure plasmid ( maxi prep plasmid). I transfected in a 24 well plate , changed the media after 6 hours post transfection. I...

08 September 2019 6,186 1 View

Max extension time for pcr with Phusion Hot start II DNA polymerase?

Hi all, I am planning to PCR a 7430 bp fragment from a big plasmid(11 kb) with Thermo Phusion hot start II DNA pol. Thermo recommend to use 15s-30s as extension time per 1 kb length. Overall GC%...

07 August 2019 2,980 3 View

How efficient and good is NEB Q5 Site Directed Mutagenesis kit?

Hello All, I just want to know your thoughts on NEB Q5 site directed Mutagenesis kit. Has anyone used this ? Is it good ? I have a plasmid of 6 kb on which I design my SDM . Your advice and...

05 June 2019 9,287 6 View

What is the maximum insert length limit for ligation?

Hi All, I am planning to clone one of my inserts into VC155 BiFC plasmid. My insert size is 8 kb where vector size is 5kb. Is it very hard to clone 8 kb into 5 kb? Also I would like to do...

04 May 2019 6,586 4 View

Why do we need at least 1 pmoles of DNA for Alkaline phosphatase mediated dephosphorylation?

I have been struggling with a cloning and its due to the fact that It is digested only with a single restriction enzyme(I have no other option). I was wondering why do we need 1 pmoles of DNA for...

03 April 2019 2,416 10 View

What is the alternative way to clean Ni-NTA column other than GuHCL?

Hi All, I need to wash and recharge Ni-NTA column. Unfortunately, I do not have GuHCL now. Can we use 8M Urea instead of GuHCL? Is it also necessary to wash recharged beads with Urea+ 0.2 M...

02 March 2019 4,485 3 View

His tag protein purification at Room Temp?

Dear All, Can we incubate Supernatant and Ni charged beads for binding at room temperature for overnight? Currently, we do not have a fixed temp room in our building. What about keeping Ni...

01 February 2019 6,671 6 View

Impact of N terminal His tag on signal sequence of secretory protein?

Hi All, I recently generated few constructs in pcDNA 3.1 HisC,encoding three different Fibronectin fragments.I did not realised that His tag was at the N terminal(I just overlooked). I...

10 November 2018 2,354 1 View

Can we store pierce glutathione agarose beads in 50 mM tris, 150 mM NaCl,pH 8.o ?

Can we store pierce glutathione agarose beads in 50 mM tris, 150 mM NaCl,pH 8.o after regeneration?

10 November 2018 6,963 3 View

What should be the maximum length of a primer?

Recently I designed a primer that is 50 bp long with 9 bp overhang.GC% is 32 and Tm 63C. I made this long primer just to get good GC%. Do you guys think I made any mistake? On this note, my...

09 October 2018 7,431 0 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

What is a good reagent for lentiviral plasmid transfection in HeLa cells?

I have been using Lipofectamine 2000 but was hoping there may be a better protocol or one for something like Lipofectamine PLUS reagent.

24 February 2021 1,633 4 View

Why the cells die after stable transfection?

I tried stable transfection in the U87 cell line with the sgRNA-Cas9 All-in-One lentivector. Cells were cultured in a 6-well plate, 4ug plasmid was transfected after 24hs when the cell confluence...

22 February 2021 2,864 4 View

Is there a method for evaluating nanoparticle adhesion to epithelial tissue in vitro?

I want to measure how well nanoparticles can transfect cells based on NP adhesion properties. In the literature I find people do it in animal studies, and epithelial adhesion helps in transfection...

21 February 2021 7,791 3 View

Are exogenous molecules transferred between human cells during doubling ?

Hello RG community, I wonderer whether exogenous molecules (e.g. reporter plasmids, miRNAs or other artificial molecules) are transferred between cultured human cells during their doubling ? So,...

21 February 2021 6,633 3 View

Which transfection reagent is the best for plasmid transfection of MDA-MB-231 cell line, Lipofectamine based or other reagent suggestion?

I try to transfect MDA MB 231 cell line with a plasmid by PEI, unfortunately, the rate of transfection is low, and now I wanna find and order the best transfection reagent for this cell line and...

19 February 2021 828 6 View