High yields of pure RNA from cells

Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Cancer Immunology & AIDS
Research Fellow

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Company:

Zymo Research

Product Name:

Direct-zol RNA MiniPrep

Catalog Number:

R2050

I have used this kit for isolating RNA from cells. I often have to process cells for a long time and purify them, which makes it tedious to isolate RNA from cells the same day. With this kit, I can lyse my cells in TRIzol and freeze the lysate at -80 C. I can then use this lysate any time for RNA isolation using this kit. It's very fast, gives high yields and very high purity. Unlike other kits, this allows the use of trizol, which to me is a great advantage.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Isolation of RNA directly from TRIzol lysate

Starting Material

Mouse T cells

Protocol Overview

I purify cells from mice and freeze them in TRIzol. I then use the TRIzol lysate at a later time point to process through this RNA isolation kit.

Tips

Keep your reagents and bench space free of RNAses by wiping with RNAse inhibitors

Results Summary

I get very good yields of RNA with this kit. A few hundred thousand cells are enough to give me 1ug of RNA. The purity is very high as 260/280 and 230/280 ratios are >1.8

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Summary

The Good

Great yield and highly pure RNA

The Bad

RNAse can kill your prep. Be clean.

The Bottom Line

A much better product than Qiagen kits; faster, reliable and flexible.

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