Estimation of total ribonucleic acid quantity from dilute samples by nondenaturing electrophoresis and silver staining
✍ Scribed by Petri Kursula; Veli-Pekka Lehto; Anthony M. Heape
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0173-0835
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✦ Synopsis
Often, the amount of RNA that can be isolated from a defined tissue is very small. A method consisting of nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver staining is described that can be used to evaluate the concentration of very dilute RNA samples. The method is a good starting point for assays dealing with small amounts of RNA, such as semiquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), making it possible to perform parallel assays from similar amounts of total RNA when quantitation by other methods is too insensitive. The method has been used successfully to monitor the amount of total RNA isolated from rat sciatic nerve and the rat C6 glioma cell line.