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SSC Buffer

for Northern and Southern blotting, powder blend

Synonym(s):

Saline-sodium citrate buffer

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About This Item

UNSPSC Code:
41105319
NACRES:
NA.25

Quality Level

200

form

powder blend

pH

6.8-7.2 (20-25 °C, 263 mg/L in water)

solubility

water: 263 mg/mL, clear, colorless

foreign activity

DNAse, none detected
Endonuclease, none detected
Exonuclease, none detected
NICKase, none detected
RNAse, none detected

storage temp.

room temp

General description

SSC Buffer 20x Powder is a standard reagent in Southern and Northern blotting procedures. This concentrated powder should be reconstituted in molecular biology grade water to the indicated final volume before use (final solution is a 20x). The 20x concentrate can be used straight or diluted to make SSC working solutions with concentrations as low as 0.5x.

Application

Saline-sodium citrate (SSC) Buffer has been used as a washing buffer in microarray technique. It has also been used as a constituent of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) buffer.
Suitable for:
  • Preparing nucleic acids for hybridization
  • Hybridization buffer for Northern and Southern blots
  • Washing buffer for Northern and Southern blots

Features and Benefits

  • Multi-purpose use in hybridizations
  • Easily reconstituted and diluted to any concentration needed

Components

Final SSC Buffer 20x Concentrate contains 0.3 M sodium citrate in 3M NaCl.

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Storage Class Code

13 - Non Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Protocols

Northern and Southern Blot Protocols & Introduction

An introduction to both Northern and Southern blotting, popular methods for the transfer of macromolecules to membranous support. This article also offers a Southern blot protocol and a northern blot protocol.

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