

 |  |  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. Place in 70°C incubator for 2 hours, shaking at 225 rpm. Preheat shaker/incubator to 80°C.
- Add 50ul 5 M NaCl to each well. Pipette samples 4 times to mix. Incubate at 4°C for 5'. Centrifuge for 5' at 3600 rpm.
- Add 2/3 volume isopropanol (130ul) into a new 96-deep well plate.
- Aspirate off 200ul supernatant and add to the isopropanol plate. Mix. Allow to sit 10' at RT.
- Centrifuge for 15' at 3600 rpm. Carefully decant isopropanol (handle gently, pellets can be slippery).
- Add 200ul 70% ethanol. Centrifuge 5' at 3600 rpm.
- Carefully decant ethanol and allow to dry at 80°C in shaker/incubator until residual alcohol has evaporated (30-60'). Using high heat for this step seems to help remove proteins and other debris that can inhibit PCR.
- Resuspend in 20 - 50ul DI water or TE (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8, 1 mM EDTA). Store at 4°C overnight and gently vortex to mix. Quantify a few samples to estimate DNA concentration range across the plate and dilute to 20-50 ng/ul.
- Centrifuge and transfer samples to a 96-well PCR plate. Use top portion for PCR.
Reference Edwards, et al. Nucleic Acids Research 19(6): 1349.
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