Chapter title |
Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis for the Detection of Genomic Ribonucleotides
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Chapter number | 21 |
Book title |
Genome Instability
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7306-4_21 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7305-7, 978-1-4939-7306-4
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Authors |
Barbara Kind, Christine Wolf, Kerstin Engel, Alexander Rapp, M. Cristina Cardoso, Min Ae Lee-Kirsch |
Abstract |
Single cell gel electrophoresis or comet assay enables the quantification of DNA damage such as single-strand or double-strand breaks on a single cell level. Here, we describe a variant of this method for the detection of ribonucleotides embedded in genomic DNA. Briefly, cells are embedded in agarose on a microscopic slide, lysed under high salt and alkaline conditions and then subjected to in situ treatment with E. coli RNase HII which nicks 5' to a ribonucleotide within the context of a DNA duplex thereby converting genomic ribonucleotides into strand breaks. After unwinding of genomic DNA using a highly alkaline buffer, electrophoresis under mild alkaline conditions is performed resulting in formation of comets due to migration of fragmented DNA toward the anode. Following SYBR Gold staining comets can be visualized by fluorescence microscopy. In this setting, the length and the intensity of comets formed reflect the level of genomic ribonucleotides present in a given cell. |
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