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SAHIL KULKARNI
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
HAFFKINE INSTITUTE
Purpose
To release nucleic acid from the cell for
Isolation
Routinely isolated from plant ,human, fungal, bacterial
and viral sources.
Pre treat to make nucleated cells available,
whole blood
Tissue samples
Microorganisms
Need sufficient sample for adequate yield.
1.Phenol-chloroform extraction
2.Trizol
3. ((C16H33)N(CH3)3Br, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide,
hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTAB)
Adsorbtion based
1. silica coloumn
2. Diatomaceous Earth
Phenol-chloroform extraction
It is a liquid-liquid extraction technique
in biochemistry.
Liquid-liquid extraction, also known
as solvent extraction and partitioning,
is a method to separate compounds
based on their relative solubilities in
two different immiscible liquids. It is
an extraction of a substance from one
liquid phase into another liquid phase.
It is widely used in molecular biology for
isolating DNA, RNA and protein.
Equal volumes of a phenol : chloroform
mixture and an aqueous sample are mixed,
forming a biphasic mixture.
How it works
This method relies on phase separation by centrifugation of a mix of the
aqueous sample and a solution containing water-saturated phenol,
chloroform and a chaotropic denaturing solution (guanidinium
thiocyanate) resulting in an upper aqueous phase and a lower organic
phase (mainly chloroform).
Nearly all of the RNA is present in the aqueous phase, while DNA and
protein partition in the interphase and organic phase, respectively.
In a last step, RNA is recovered from the aqueous phase by precipitation
with 2-propanol or ethanol.
DNA will be located in the interphase thus the technique can be used for
DNA purification alone.
80% EtOH)
The column can be eluted with buffer or simply water
Collection tube
Buffers AVL
AW1
AW2
AVE
Carrier RNA
Procedure
Pipette 560 l of prepared Buffer AVL containing
carrier RNA into a 1.5 ml micro centrifuge tube.
Add 140 l body fluid to the Buffer AVL carrier RNA
Mix by pulse vortexing for 15 s.
Incubate at room temperature (15-25C) for 10 min.
Briefly centrifuge the tube to remove drops from the
inside of the lid.
Role of AVL
The sample is first lysed under the highly denaturing
conditions provided by buffer AVL to inactivate RNases
and to ensure isolation of intact viral RNA
Quantification contd
The ratio of the absorbance at 260 nm/ absorbance at 280
Applications:
De novo: Oligonucleotide synthesis
Amplification: PCR
Nucleic acid simulations
Cloning
DNA sequencing
Expression cloning
Southern blot
northern blot
Fluorescent in situ hybridization
several Bioinformatics methods, such as RNA structure prediction
THANK YOU
sahilkulkarni@gmail.com