Primer dilution - (May/20/2015 )

Hello,

I received my primers today (in a plate) and the datasheet specified to add 100 ul of water to get a 100 micromolar solution.

Now, i want to use a 0.3 micromolar solution in my qPCR so how do i dilute it further. I want a final volume of 25 ul.

I could dilute my 100 micromolar solution to 10 or 5 micromolar but then again whenever i have to run a qPCR i have to dilute it again. Any solution how to dilute to get a final conc. of 0.3 or 0.4 micromolar solution to be used with qPCR?

Thanks

Yes, you can dilute it further if you wish, because depending on how many reactions you have, volumes of a 100 uM stock are a bit too small to pipet comfortably.

There's a very easy method to calculate dilution, and it's by doing it in two steps.

First determine the dilution factor: let's say you have your 10 uM diluted stock and you want to dilute it to 0.3 uM, so you want to dilute 10/0.3 = 33.3 times.

Since you want to dilute 33.3 times, and your final volume is 25 ul, then the volume of 10 uM stock you'd need to add is 25/33.3 = 0.75 ul per tube.

r.rosati on Wed May 20 20:15:45 2015 said:

Yes, you can dilute it further if you wish, because depending on how many reactions you have, volumes of a 100 uM stock are a bit too small to pipet comfortably.

 

There's a very easy method to calculate dilution, and it's by doing it in two steps.

First determine the dilution factor: let's say you have your 10 uM diluted stock and you want to dilute it to 0.3 uM, so you want to dilute 10/0.3 = 33.3 times.

Since you want to dilute 33.3 times, and your final volume is 25 ul, then the volume of 10 uM stock you'd need to add is 25/33.3 = 0.75 ul per tube.

Thanks for your quick response :)

So first i need to dilute my 100 uM stock to 10 uM and then i dilute it to 0.3 uM. Am i correct in saying this?

Typical working stocks for PCR are 10 uM, the final dilution to 0.3 uM (or whatever you are using) is done in the reaction mix.

Plate based primer preps are easy - if you have the plate made up to 100 uM as suggested, then you can easily make a dilution plate by getting a new plate, adding 90 ul of water to each well, then adding 10 ul of each 100 uM primer stock to the respective well. If you are confident in your pipettor, you can do this with a multichannel pipette.

bob1 on Wed May 20 20:50:24 2015 said:

Typical working stocks for PCR are 10 uM, the final dilution to 0.3 uM (or whatever you are using) is done in the reaction mix.

 

Plate based primer preps are easy - if you have the plate made up to 100 uM as suggested, then you can easily make a dilution plate by getting a new plate, adding 90 ul of water to each well, then adding 10 ul of each 100 uM primer stock to the respective well. If you are confident in your pipettor, you can do this with a multichannel pipette.

Thanks bob, But i again have to dilute it to reach my desired concentration of 0.3 uM?

I understood this much.

Now, how to calculate how much uL should i add to my reaction to have 0.3 uM final concentration?

Say, if you have a 10 uM stock, then by the calculation I wrote, you would use 0.75 ul of this for a 25-ul reaction.

I normally keep a "master" stock of a primer at 100 uM, and keep a working stock at 10 uM. The working stock I make up in a 200 ul volume, which makes it easy to thaw when I'm ready to do a PCR. With a 10 uM working stock, you typically add 1-2 ul of primer to a 50 ul PCR reaction. I keep both the master and working solutions in TE, not in water. TE preserves the DNA, even at room temperature, essentially indefinitely (although I still keep things frozen). Some people worry about the effect of the TE on reactions; I'd recommend doing the math -- the effects are essentially negligible.

Hi,

I have 20 ul of 100 uM stock primer and I need to make 2 ml of 0.3 uM solution. Can anyone help me how to do that?

Asha1 on Mon Jun 24 13:44:44 2019 said:

Hi,

 

I have 20 ul of 100 uM stock primer and I need to make 2 ml of 0.3 uM solution. Can anyone help me how to do that?

see my response to your topic in "general lab techniques" (there's no need for multiple postings of the same question).