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Crap, yes it appears I put the wrong one in there. Apologies. I'm afraid I'm not perfect...yet.

-Bio-Lad-

You may be able to get around this by doing a blunt TOPO cloning and using one of the sites in that vector's MCS with EcoRV. Otherwise you'd need to reorder the reverse primer. Again, my apologies.

-Bio-Lad-

No worries! I am learning good things everyday:) May be you can teach me how to ligate blunt PCR product to blunt vector and keep the directionality of the gene ( in correct ordination)?

I am thinking of two ways to do this:

1- to use EcoV for the left side that will give blunt end. and find other blunt side at the right side and do blunt ligation then the directionality problem appears.

2- after ligation reaction that where I am now. gel purify what I think correct size then use it at the transformation step.

What do you think?

-RNA woman-

You could do that but you'd want to dephosphorylate the vector after digesting it or you'll get a ton of colonies from the vector ligating to itself. After getting colonies, you'd want to do a digest of several clones that will tell you in which direction the onset went. It should be about 50% for each direction.

-Bio-Lad-

what about option 2? gel purify the correct size before transformation?

-RNA woman-

Well it's not a bad idea to gel purify the correct band from your PCR, especially if you see several bands.

-Bio-Lad-
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