

 |  |  SMALL-SCALE SDS/NACL SEED EXTRACTION
- Place 1/4 seed into each well of a 96-round well deep well plate.
- Add 400ul SDS extraction buffer (200 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 250 mM NaCl, 25 mM EDTA, 0.5% SDS) to each well. Add 5ul Proteinase K (4mg/ml final concentration 50ug/ml) to each well, gently vortex to mix and spin down. Place in a 65 °C incubator for 2 hours, shaking at 225 rpm.
- Add 260ul 5 M NaCl to each well, vortex gently to mix, and incubate at 4°C for 20'. Centrifuge for 15' at 3600 rpm.
- Add 150ul isopropanol (2/3 volume) into a new 96 round well deep well plate.
- Aspirate off 200ul supernatant and add to the isopropanol plate. Vortex to mix. Allow to sit >15' at -20°C. Store the seed block at -20°C in case samples need to be re-extracted.
- Centrifuge for 15' at 3600 rpm. Carefully decant isopropanol (handle gently, pellets can be slippery).
- Add 400ul 70% ethanol. Centrifuge 15' at 3600 rpm. (If necessary, the extraction can be paused at this stage. Store plates at 4°C until resuming.)
- Carefully decant ethanol. Invert plate for no longer than 2 seconds, as pellets can be slippery. Centrifuge at 1500 rpm to assure that pellets are at bottom of plate.
- Allow the plate to sit for 60' at 65°C in shaker/incubator until residual alcohol has completely evaporated. Using high heat for this step seems to help remove proteins and other debris that can inhibit PCR.
- Resuspend the dried pellet in 100ul water for 60' at 37°C in shaker/incubator, or store at 4°C overnight. Transfer samples to a new 96-well PCR plate and centrifuge at 3600 rpm for 5'. Quantitate a few samples to estimate DNA concentration (concentration will usually be ~100ng/ul; the 260/280 ratio around 1.9; and the 260/230 ratio around 1.3. The 230/260 ratio is used to determine the level of residual carbohydrates). Make a 5x dilution of the supernatant for your PCR template (avoid aspirating the pellet) for use on the Roche LC480 light cycler .
Reference Edwards, et al. Nucleic Acids Research 19(6): 1349.
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