A simple approach for effective shearing and reliable concentration measurement of ultra-high-molecular-weight DNA
Pipetting and concentration measurement of viscous ultra-high-molecular-weight (UHMW) DNA samples is challenging and often highly imprecise. Effective guidelines for handling UHMW samples are missing in the field. Herein, a simple and low-cost workflow is presented that enables accurate pipetting an...
| Veröffentlicht in: | BioTechniques. - 1991. - 71(2021), 2 vom: 03. Aug., Seite 439-444 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2021
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | BioTechniques |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DNA extraction DNA shearing genomics glass beads nanodrop needle shearing quantification qubit mehr... |
| Zusammenfassung: | Pipetting and concentration measurement of viscous ultra-high-molecular-weight (UHMW) DNA samples is challenging and often highly imprecise. Effective guidelines for handling UHMW samples are missing in the field. Herein, a simple and low-cost workflow is presented that enables accurate pipetting and reliable concentration measurement. Central to the workflow is the shearing of representative small aliquots of UHMW DNA samples to a fragment size <150 kb by vortexing them for 1 min with a glass bead in a round-bottomed 2-ml tube. Additionally, a solution is provided for accurate quantitation of high-molecular-weight DNA with fluorometric (Qubit [Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA]) methods by using an appropriate genomic DNA standard, resulting in values that match spectrophotometric (Nanodrop [Thermo Fisher Scientific]) optical density readings |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 20.12.2021 Date Revised 20.12.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1940-9818 |
| DOI: | 10.2144/btn-2021-0051 |