Glycogen (20 mg/mL)

Glycogen is commonly used as a carrier for nucleic acid precipitation. In most cases, its DNA co-precipitation performance is better than that of tRNA or sonication. Moreover, glycogen is free of DNase and RNase, so nucleic acids precipitated with it are more suitable for subsequent PCR, RT-PCR, as well as restriction enzyme and other nuclease-based reactions. In contrast, DNA prepared using tRNA or sonication as a carrier sometimes interferes with the above molecular reactions.

This product is molecular biology grade glycogen and does not contain DNase or RNase. Typically, 1 μL is sufficient to precipitate DNA or RNA at the picogram level from a 1 mL solution. Each package of this product is sufficient to precipitate at least 500 standard DNA or RNA samples.