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TRIzol
Prep
Procedure
1. Homogenize cells (10 million) or tissue (50-100 mg) in 1 mL
TRIzol
Reagent (e.g.
scrape and pass
through 30G needle, dounce homogenize and
pass through needle, or use a homogenizer) and transfer to
a 1.5 mL tube.
Optional -
Spin at 12k g for 10' at r.t. to pellet debris. Save pink
supernatant in fresh tube.
2. Incubate 5' at r.t.
3. Add 0.2 mL CHCl
3 (chloroform). Shake
15". Incubate 2-3' at r.t.
4. Spin 12K g 15', 2-8ºC.
5. Transfer clear (aqueous) phase to a fresh tube.
Optional -
Add 5 - 10 µg glycogen if < 10 mg of tissue was used at start.
6. Add 0.5 mL isopropanol, mix. Incubate at r.t. 10'. (Use
0.75 mL isopropanol for isolating miRNA)
7. Spin 12K g 15', 2-8ºC.
8. Discard supernatant. Add 1 mL 70% EtOH (with fresh with
RNAse free H
2O). Use 75% EtOH for miRNA. Vortex.
9. Spin 7500 g 5', 2-8ºC. Optional: Repeat 75%
EtOH wash.
10 Discard supernatant. Air dry 5-10'.
11. Dissolve RNA in RNAse free H
2O.
Fluorometer
Quantitation
1. Create a Ribogreen
MasterMix: Turn on Fluorometer. Thaw 20x RNAse free TE,
Ribogreen and RNA standard.
Master Mix (multiply by #
samples
+ 2 standards)
5 µL 20x T.E.
0.5 µL RiboGreen (200x)
92.5 µL DEPC treated H2O
2. Aliquot 98.5 µL master mix into 1.5 mL tubes.
3. Setup samples and controls:
Add 2 µL H
2O into one
tube as the "blank".
Add 2 µL of RNA standard into a tube as
the "100 ng/uL" standard.
Dilute each sample 1/10 in DEPC H
2O
(1 µL + 9 µL water).
Add 2 µL dilute sample to the master mix
aliquots.
4. Blank and then calibrate the fluorometer using the "blank" and "100
ng/µL" standard.
5. Measure each RNA sample. Multiply the results by 10x (dilution
factor).
DNAse I
Digestion
1. Create DNAse I
buffer: MgCl
2 and KCl should directly treated with
0.1% DEPC, incubated o.n. at room temp. and then autoclaved.
Create 1M Tris pH8.4 by adding 4.03 g Tris base + 2.64 g Tris HCl in 50
mL DEPC treated H
2O. (Tris buffers can't be
treated with DEPC). Sterile filter.
2. Digest contaminating genomic DNA:
100 µg RNA
10 µL 10x DNAse I buffer (Tris pH8.4, 20 mM MgCl2,
500 mM KCl)
5 µL
DNAse I (RNAse free)
q.s. 100 µL with DEPC H2O
Incubate at room temp. x10 min. Immediately proceed to next step.
RNeasy Mini Prep
Procedure
(See
RNeasy Mini
Handbook for details)
1. Add 0.6 mL of RLT solution.
2. Transfer to a 1.5 mL tube.
3. Add 1 vol (0.6 mL) 70% EtOH. Mix by pipetting.
Transfer 0.6 mL to a minicolumn in a collection tube.
4. Spin >10K rpm 15". Discard flow through. Return
column to same tube.
5. Load remainder of lysate to column. Spin, discard flow
through.
6. Wash by adding 0.7 mL RW1. Spin, discard flow through.
7. Wash by adding 0.5 mL RPE. Spin, discard flow through.
8. Repeat wash with 0.5 mL RPE, but spin for 2' to dry
column.
(Be sure no buffer is carried over on column
tip.)
9. Elute by adding 50 µL RNAse-free H
2O and
transfer to a fresh tube. Spin >10K rpm 1'.
Add
another 50 µL H
2O and spin again. Save
pooled eluate at -20º or - 80ºC.
BioAnalyzer
1. Dilute ~50 ng of total
RNA to 3µL with DEPC H
2O, and submit to genomics
lab.
2. Check Fred account for results. Non degraded RNA
will have a 28s/18s ratio = 2. The "concentration" result may be
equated to the amount of RNA (ng) that was submitted. For more
details on the interpretation of BiaAnalyzer tracings see the section
of the
BioAnalyzer
Nano 6000 kit manual that discusses assay results.
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