An in vivo-in vitro alkaline DNA unwinding assay for single-strand breaks and/or alkalilabile lesions in hepatic DNA is described. The assay involves isolation of hepatic nuclei from mice, alkaline denaturation and unwinding of hepatic DNA, separation of single-and doublestranded DNA by hydroxylapat
Altered DNA sedimentation by the presence of erythrocytes in alkaline sucrose gradient centrifugation
β Scribed by Tetsuo Suda; Mitsuhiro Omine; Tadashi Maekawa
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 349 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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β¦ Synopsis
The presence of a relatively small number of red cells was found to affect DNA sedimentation profile of normal lymphocytes and acute leukemia cells, as observed by the alkaline sucrose gradient centrifugation technique coupled with the fluorometric measurement of DNA. Significant alteration was observed at a nucleated celherythrocyte ratio of 20/l to 0.211, resulting in retardation of the Sill value and the entire sedimentation profile. This effect seemed to be rather specific to erythrocyte lysate, since corresponding amounts of erythrocyte ghost, IgM, bovine serum albumin, and an increased number of nucleated cells did not influence the profile to an appreciable degree.
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