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标题：Improvement of Separation Method of Fragmented DNA from an Apoptotic Cell DNA Sample for the Quantitation Using Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
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作者：Kunio OHYAMA ; Paku ENN ; Noboru UCHIDE 等
期刊名称：Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0918-6158
电子版ISSN：1347-5215
出版年度：2001
卷号：24
期号：4
页码：342-346
DOI：10.1248/bpb.24.342
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：In order to quantify fragmented DNA extracted from apoptotic cells, we devised a separation method which condenses fragmented DNA into a small band, separating it from larger-size DNA with agarose gel electrophoresis. Calf thymus DNA and standard fragmented DNA were loaded onto 1.0% gel for 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 cm length, and onto 0.7, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0% of gels for 1 cm length. DNA was then extracted from gel slices with the UltraClean^TM 15 DNA Purification Kit, and estimated by measuring fluorescence intensity using Hoechst No.33258 dye. DNA recovery from the gel showed constant values regardless of the amount of loaded DNA up to 1 μg/assay, and a plot of loaded DNA amounts vs. the DNA amount yielded resulted in a strait line in any gel concentration used. Our results show the best conditions to estimate DNA fragmentation rates in apoptotic cells in which fragmented DNA was separated from thymus DNA by loading on 1.0% gel for 1.0 cm length. We used our method to estimate fragmentation rates in DNA fractions extracted from apoptotic human cervical fibroblast, amnion epithelial and chorion laeve trophoblast cells by stimulation with actinomycin D. The results show that DNA fragmentation rates in these cells were consistent with the electrophoretic patterns of the DNA samples shown by their photographs.
关键词：fragmented DNA;apoptosis;agarose gel electrophoresis