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Asked 10th Jun, 2022
Stability of functional groups on DNA oligos during long term storage and defrosting/refreezing?
Dear global colleagues,
Do you have insights into the stability of functional groups (I am particularly interested in phosphorylation and Acrydite modifications)? IDT, for example, has detailed oligo storage advice on their website and it seems that olives are quite stable at -20 for up to two years and even a few defrosting cycles. However, they do not give details for functionalisation and I know from my own experience that biotinylation is quite sensitive (I estimate only a year storage is OK without any intermediate defrosting). What about the other functional groups? Wikipedia suggests Acrydite is also less stable. How long would you use what kind of functionalisation?
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