EpiNext DNA Purification HT System

Product Description

The EpiNext™ DNA Purification HT System (also known as "EpiNext™ beads" or "MQ beads") utilizes magnetic bead technology for high throughput DNA or PCR amplicon purification and DNA size selection. The system can also be used for concentrating DNA and is suitable for selectively and consistently capturing DNA fragments or PCR amplicons that are 100 bps or larger in size. The system has the following advantages:

• Optimized buffer chemistries: Complete separation of DNA or PCR amplicons. It can also be used for DNA size selection based on the ratio of beads to DNA sample volume. 
• Fast and straightforward: The entire procedure can be finished in just 30 min for 96 samples and is highly amenable to a variety of automation platforms. No gels, filtration, centrifugation, or columns are needed. 
• Efficient clean-up: Removal of excess primers, adaptors, nucleotides, salts, enzymes, and PCR inhibiting substances such as polysaccharides, polyphenols, lipids and dyes.
• High recovery of DNA: Higher than 98% recovery of input DNA. 
• Manual and automation friendly: Scalable for use in single tube or 96-well plate formats.
• Ultimate value: Superior performance for less than half the price vs Agencourt® AMPure® XP beads, without having to change any of your existing workflows or protocols.

Background Information

Obtaining high recovery of purified DNA or selected DNA fragments is critical for downstream applications that use DNA samples including PCR, sequencing, cloning, microarray, and DNA fragment analysis, regardless of the platform used. 

Principle & Procedure

The system contains an optimized MQ binding bead solution developed by Epigentek which allows DNA or PCR amplicons to bind tightly to the beads. Excess primers, adaptors, nucleotides, salts, enzymes, and PCR inhibiting substances can be removed by simply washing the beads. Optimization of MQ bead ratio to input DNA allows DNA size selection by the removal of larger or smaller DNA fragments and recovery of desired target size DNA fragments.

Starting Materials

DNA fragments of various lengths. Input amount can be from 0.1 ng to 1 µg. The bead volumes provided in the system of 4 ml or 8 ml permit a total of 96 or 192 standard purifications, respectively (use 0.5 µg of DNA in 20 µl of solution); or 48 or 96 standard DNA size selections, respectively (use 50 µl of input DNA solution). 

Agencourt® AMPure® is a registered trademark of Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Performance Data

Fig.2. Gel picture after purification of 800 ng of DNA marker (Hyperladder 50 bp ladder, Bioline) using the EpiNext™ DNA Purification HT System with varying ratios of beads from 0.9X to 2.1X. AMPure XP beads were used as the control. M: Marker size of Agilent DNA chip kit.

Fig.3. Percentage of recovery of input DNA fragments by EpiNext DNA Purification HT System and competitor