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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 235-238Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(01)00219-6
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dd-RT-PCR; DNA contamination; Gram-positive bacteria; northern blot; RNA isolation
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Several molecular techniques require high-quality RNA, free from DNA, Various methods have been described to obtain RNA to be used in expression studies or as starting material in differential display-reverse transcriptase (dd-RT-PCR), for which high-quality RNA free from DNA is an essential requirement. In this report, we compare three different methods to isolate RNA from Gram-positive bacteria: (1) An acid-phenol extraction protocol. (2) The RNeasy mini kit from QIAGEN (Valencia, CA, USA). (3) The SV Total RNA Isolation System from Promega (Madison, WI, USA). The QIAGEN-kit delivers the highest amount of RNA with the highest purity. Slot blot analysis and dd-RT-PCR confirm the absence of DNA contamination and Northern blot analysis and dd-RT-PCR show high quality of the extracted RNA. This RNA extraction method thus addresses current problems by permitting rapid and safe isolation with high yields of intact RNA for subsequent analysis. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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