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LIFE09200604007 Tabish - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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Materials and Methods<br />

viz. EXO-SAP purification, SNaPshot reaction and Post SNaPshot purification. For<br />

PCR product purification EXOI and SAP enzymes are required. EXO-I (Exonuclease-I)<br />

is an enzyme with 5' to 3' exonuclease activity which helps clearing off the short singlestranded<br />

primers. SAP (Shrimp alkaline phosphatase) is a hydrolase enzyme<br />

responsible for dephosphorylation of nucleotides thereby hampering their migration and<br />

preventing their competition with ddNTPs in the SNaPshot reaction.<br />

EXO-SAP purification: This step deals with the purifications of PCR products as it<br />

contains free, unused dNTPs, primer and primer-dimers. It is important to get rid of<br />

these unwanted materials to avoid non-specific addition of ddNTPs resulting in false<br />

positive peaks in the SNaPshot electropherogram and these may also result in<br />

quenching of the signals.<br />

Reaction mixture for EXO-SAP purification<br />

Component Vol. (μl) Final concentration<br />

EXO-I (1 U/μl) 0.1 0.01 U<br />

SAP (1 U/μl) 1 0.1 U<br />

PCR-buffer (10X) 1 1<br />

D/W 1.9 -<br />

Product 6 -<br />

Total 10 -<br />

Thermal-cycler program for EXO-SAP purification<br />

Step Temperature (⁰C) Duration<br />

Enzyme activity 37 2 h<br />

Enzyme deactivation 72 15 min<br />

Reaction end 4 30 min<br />

SNaPshot reaction: In this step, single base extension of the primer takes place.<br />

Purified PCR product was added in a reaction mixture containing ready reaction mix<br />

(contains fluorescently labelled ddNTPs with a different label for each of the 4<br />

ddNTPs, DNA polymerase and essential buffers) and SNaPshot primers.<br />

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