Re: Visible DNA stain

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From: Steffen Dietzel
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:00

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--- Alan Hibbs <ahibbs@IHUG.COM.AU> schrieb:
> In reply to Don,
>
> Propidium Iodide stains DNA much more strongly than RNA (due to the large
> amount of dsDNA compared to dsRNA in the cell) and so is most useful as a DNA
> stain even without RNAase treatment as suggested by Jonathan Bard. Otherwise
> the RNAase treatment does work very well to remove any RNA staining.
>
> Alan.

That probably depends very much on the cell type. I once tried to stain
Drosophila nuclei with several non-DNA-specific dyes, including PI, and the
result was that I got black holes (=nuclei) in a sea of bright cytoplasm. After
RNase treatment the picture reverted.
Alan, which cell type did you use?

Steffen

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