A few days ago
Anthony

PCR primer question?

What is the point of running a PCR with two primers, eg. ovalbumin (135 & 145 olgio) and insulin (246 & 34 oglio). We were only interested in the ova band.

I assume insulin is the negative control. There is an insulin band in all the columns but what is it for?

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A few days ago
Sci Fi Insomniac

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Maybe it was used in order to show that the PCR actually worked – that is, you had intact DNA and the conditions in your machine were conducive to replication.

If you didn’t use a ladder in the gel, then the insulin bands could be used as molecular weight markers.

Ovalbumin is a protease inhibitor (prevents catabolism or breakdown of proteins), while insulin regulates anabolism, and consequently carbohydrate breakdown. So they kind of regulate opposite reactions. . .

Did you extract the DNA yourself? Maybe you had to use both in order to show that your extraction methods were reliable.

Did you manipulate the organism/sample/cell before you extracted DNA? Maybe there’s a pathway that would involve both insulin and ovalbumin, where insulin came first, and you needed to show that the lack of insulin was not a factor in the lack/presence of ovalbumin.

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4 years ago
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