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Why do we include the DNase step in in vitro transcription?
•In vitro transcription is an artificial production of RNA [may be m-RNA or r-RNA] molecule for various purposes like used in analytical techniques (e.g. hybridization analysis), structural studies (for NMR and X-ray crystallography), in biochemical and genetic studies (e.g. as antisense reagents), and as functional molecules (ribozymes and aptamers).
•For above uses , the transcript required in a pure form . So a step RNA purification is needed. In in-vitro condition the DNA template and newly synthesized RNA is present in same medium [tube], but our interest is only in RNA so we need to cut/ destroy DNA template molecule and purify RNA for this purpose enzyme DNase is added to digest the DNA template .
•The problem is not in in-vivo condition because of nuclear membrane.