Isolation of macro-nuclear DNA from the rumen ciliate Entodinium caudatum.
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2015-12-31Author
Young, Kenneth W.
Thomas, Nadine A.
Duval, Stephane M.
Newbold, C. Jamie
Fried, Johannes
Brown, David S.
Hackstein, Johannes H. P.
Michalowski, Tadeusz
McEwan, Neil R.
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YOUNG, K.W., THOMAS, N.A., DUVAL, S.M., NEWBOLD, J., FRIED, J., BROWN, D.S., HACKSTEIN, J.H.P., MICHALOWSKI, T. and MCEWAN, N.R. 2015. Isolation of macro-nuclear DNA from the rumen ciliate
Entodinium caudatum. Journal of endocytobiosis and cell research [online], 26, pages 50-55. Available from: https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00355360
Abstract
A method is described which allows isolation of macronuclear DNA from the rumen ciliate Entodinium caudatum. Ciliate cells were enriched from the total microbial population in the rumen of sheep with a single ciliate species present by sedimentation and size filtration. Ciliates were then lysed by homogenisation and the macronuclear component isolated on a Percoll density gradient. Macronuclei can be stored in guanidine. HCl until ready for DNA extraction. DNA which had been extracted from macronuclei fresh from the Percoll gradient, or following guanidine. HCl storage, is of sufficient quality to permit its use for PCR analysis.