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KMID : 1161520050090040205
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Animal Cells and Systems
2005 Volume.9 No. 4 p.205 ~ p.209
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Efficient isolation of intact RNA from the soft coral Scleronephthya gracillimum (Kukenthal) for gene expression analyses
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Woo Seon-Ock
Yum Seung-Shic
Yoon Moon-Geun
Kim Sa-Heung
Lee Jong-Rak
Kim Jeong-Ha
Lee Taek-Kyun
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Abstract
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A rapid, simple and efficient method to extract RNA from the adult polyps of a soft coral, marine cnidarian, Scleronephthya gracillimum (Kukenthal), was developed in this study. The highest yield and purity of RNA was obtained with the lysis solution containing 35 mM EDTA, 0.7 M LiCl, 7.0% SDS, and 200 mM Tris?Cl (pH 9.0). Approximately 40 μg of total RNA was extracted from 200 mg of liquid nitrogen?pulverized polyp tissue. The ratio of absorbance at 260 nm and 280 nm ranged from 1.8 to 2.0. The results of the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT?PCR) with β?actin gene specific primers and Northern blot analysis using the same gene probe revealed that the RNA extracted by our method had high quality, and was sufficient for subsequent molecular biological analyses. This method was effective for RNA extraction from other soft coral species which belong to the genus Dendronephthya.
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KEYWORD
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Scleronephthya gracillimum, RNA isolation, northern blot, gene expression, soft coral
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