Examination of Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) DNA Quality and Quantity by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis.
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abstract
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is the preferred method to measure the size of an insert in a high-capacity vector. After digestion with a restriction enzyme (e.g., PI-SceI or NotI), the DNA fragments are separated by PFGE through a 1% agarose gel.