A CONVENIENT PROCEDURE FOR PREPARING TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI

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作者
AVITAL, S
ELSON, D
机构
[1] Biochemistry Department, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0005-2787(69)90038-0
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A procedure is described for the isolation of transfer RNA (tRNA) from Escherichia coli. The method is a combination of several known techniques. tRNA is extracted from whole cells with phenol, stripped of attached amino acids at pH 8, preferentially solubilized with 2 M LiCl, and reprecipitated with (NH4)2SO4. The key step is the use of 2 M LiCl, which separates ribosomal RNA from tRNA rapidly and completely. The method is simple and yields tRNA as active as the best preparations that we have obtained with other methods. © 1969.
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