Synthetic Carrier RNA (1 mg/ml or 10 mg/ml solution)

Synthetic Carrier RNA is designed to be used in all kind nucleic acid purification and precipitation procedures as a carrier and co-precipitant of nucleic acids. It is especially useful to increase the amount of RNA or DNA pellet in low concentrated solutions, in such procedures, as viral RNA extraction from human specimen samples.

In contrast to commonly used carrier RNAs such as tRNA, yeast RNA, or sonicated salmon sperm DNA, the Synthetic Carrier RNA is free from animal or yeast RNA contamination. Coprecipitated RNA and DNA can be directly used for all common downstream applications, such as PCR or RT-PCR, as well as highly sensitive qPCR.

The use of carrier RNAs for coprecipitation of nucleic acids may interfere with spectrophotometrical concentration measurements.

The presence of carrier RNAs in the RNA or DNA solution may have some influence on certain enzymatic reactions performed by such enzymes that act on all nucleic acid molecules, for example T4 Polynucleotide Kinase or Terminal DNA Transferase.

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