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Preparation of Total RNA from Fission Yeast

Bähler, J; Wise, JA; (2017) Preparation of Total RNA from Fission Yeast. Cold Spring Harbour Protocols , 2017 (4) pp. 306-310. 10.1101/pdb.prot091629. Green open access

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Abstract

Treatment with hot phenol breaks open fission yeast cells and begins to strip away bound proteins from RNA. Deproteinization is completed by multiple extractions with chloroform/isoamyl alcohol and separation of the aqueous and organic phases using MaXtract gel, an inert material that acts as a physical barrier between the phases. The final step is concentration of the RNA by ethanol precipitation. The protocol can be used to prepare RNA from several cultures grown in parallel, but it is important not to process too many samples at once because delays can be detrimental to RNA quality. A reasonable number of samples to process at once would be three to four for microarray or RNA sequencing analyses and six for preliminary investigations of mutants implicated in RNA metabolism.

Type: Article
Title: Preparation of Total RNA from Fission Yeast
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot091629
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot091629
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1547652
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