Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid → 5'-Thymidylic acid

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Reaction Steps

To 300 μl of a solution comprising 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 6 mM MgCl2 and 10 mM NaCl, there was added 400 μg of pCDV1 [Okayama & Berg: Mol. Cell. Biol., 3, 280 (1983)] and, after further addition of 500 units of KpnI, the reaction was carried out at 37° C. for 6 hours, whereby the plasmid was cleaved at the KpnI site. The DNA recovered byphenol-chloroform extraction followed by ethanol precipitation. About 200 μg of the KpnI-cleaved DNA was added to 200 μl of a solution prepared by adding dTTP in a concentration of 0.25 mM to TdT buffer and, after further addition of 81 units of TdT (P-L Biochemicals), the reaction was carried out at 37° C. for 11 minutes, whereby a poly(dT) chain (about 67 dT residues) was added to each 3' end of the KpnI cleavage site of pCDV1. About 100 μg of the poly(dT) chain-tailed pCDV1 DNA was recovered from the solution by ethanol precipitation following phenol-chloroform extraction. The DNA was added to 150 μl of a solution comprising 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 6 mM MgCl2 and 100 mM NaCl and, after further addition of 360 units of EcoRI, the reaction was carried out at 37° C. for 2 hours. The reaction mixture was treated by the LGT method, and a DNA fragment of about 3.1 kb was recovered. About 60 μg of the poly(dT) chaintailed pCDV1 was thus obtained. The DNA was dissolved in 500 μl of a solution comprising 10 mM Tris-CHl (pH 8.0) and 1mM EDTA, the solution was incubated at 65° C. for 5 minutes and then cooled with ice, and 50 μl of 5M NaCl was added. The mixture was subjected to oligo(dA)-cellulose column (Collaborative Research) chromatography. Molecules having a sufficient poly(dT) chain length were adsorbed on the column and they were eluted with a solution comprising 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0) and 1 mM EDTA to give 27 μg of the poly(dT) chain-tailed pCDV1 (hereinafter referred to as vector primer).

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