From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue May 30 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!EU.net!uunet!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.embl-heidelberg.de!usenet From: Martin Zeidler Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: PCR based P-element rescue Date: 31 May 1995 15:22:52 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3qi1kc$nql@comet.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-diff1.embl-heidelberg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1b3 (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:bionet.drosophila?ALL Does anyone have details of the primer seaquence and annealing temps for the rescue of genomic DNA flanking a non-rescuable P-element insertion. I assume such a protocol would involve the digestion and re-circularisation of genomic DNA with a selection of restriction enzymes followed by PCR amplification of the circularised DNA containing the P-element LTR sequences and its neighbouring genomic region. Any tips or information ? Martin .