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Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening

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ISSN (Print): 1386-2073
ISSN (Online): 1875-5402

A Fluorescent High-Throughput Assay for Double-Stranded DNA: the RediPlate PicoGreen Assay

Author(s): Robert Batchelor, David Hagen, Iain Johnson and Joseph Beechem

Volume 6, Issue 4, 2003

Page: [287 - 291] Pages: 5

DOI: 10.2174/138620703106298536

Price: $65

Abstract

The fluorescent PicoGreen® reagent for detection and quantitation of double-stranded DNA has been adapted for high-throughput screening: the RediPlate PicoGreen double-stranded DNA assay format. In the RediPlate PicoGreen assay format, the PicoGreen reagent is predistributed and co-dried into either 96- or 384- well microplates with the excipient trehalose. The user resuspends the dried reagents upon adding DNA, and measures the resulting fluorescence after a five minute incubation. Replicate fluorescence measurements on nominally identical wells have less than a 5% coefficient of variation. The assay is linear from 5 to 500 ng / ml DNA in a 200 μl volume. The RediPlate PicoGreen assay format retains the advantages of the original PicoGreen reagent - sensitivity, speed, and specificity - but in a high-throughput format.

Keywords: high-throughput, fluorescence, dna, microplate, dye-binding assay, contaminant tolerance


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