Lidstrom:QuikChange Site-Directed Mutagenesis
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QuikChange Basics
- You can buy a kit from Agilent or use your own ingredients.
- The marketing term "lightning" refers to an improved Dpn1, that degrades template (unmutated template) more efficiently.
Two (main) QuikChange kits are available
- QuikChange Lightning.
- For mutations contained within a single primer
- QuikChange Lightning Multi
- For mutations contained in >1 primer
- Can be used for mutations contained in 1 primer, but this kit is more expensive than the single kit and likely has lower efficiency.
- Both kits:
- come with chemically competent XL10-Gold. This is perhaps the most valuable part of the kit.
Tips
- Though the lightning Dpn1 enzyme claims to be effective in 5 minutes, you might as well incubate it for 30 minutes, just in case it lowers your unmutated background further.