Nib Dna Extraction Protocol
Nib Dna Extraction Protocol
Nib Dna Extraction Protocol
Purpose – for extracting the DNA from a bacterial culture for further use in PCR and other
reactions and purposes. Here extraction buffer is used to isolate dna and then dissolved in TE
buffer.
Chemicals used – bacterial mother culture fresh, TE buffer (pH 8), sucrose (5%), 50 mm edta, 50
mm tris hcl (ph 8), 0.5% triton x, 0.75 m nh4cl, 100 ug/ml lysozyme, 25 ug/ml rnase a, 50 mm
cacl2.
Materials – cold centrifuge, cold isopropanol and IPA, TE buffer, autoclaved water,
electrophoresis, agarose gel, geldoc.
Procedure –
1. Pellet 2 ml of the fresh bacterial mother culture.
2. Centrifuge at 10k rpm for 8 minutes in RT. Repeat to get more pellet.
3. Prepare extraction buffer with 2.5 g sucrose, 5 ml edta (50mm), 2.5 ml tris hcl (50 mm), 2
g nh4cl, 250 ul triton x, 5 mg lysozyme, 100 ul rnase, 367.5 mg cacl2 (50 mm).
4. Keep in fridge after mixing well.
5. To the bacterial pellet add 150 ul of the extraction buffer.
6. Mix and vortex well.
7. Incubate at 65 degrees for 5 mins in dry bath.
8. Spin at 12k rpm for 10 mins.
9. Discard the pellet.
10. Add 120 ul of IPA to supernatant and mix well and incubate at RT for 15 mins.
11. Spin for 12k rpm for 10 mins.
12. Discard the supernatant, and add 1 ml 70% etoh and wash.
13. Air dry and dissolve in 20 – 50 ul TE buffer.
Results – you will get the gel with dna and calculate ng/ul with a ladder reference.
Reagents –
1. Extraction buffer
2. TE buffer
3. IPA