revealed the existence of abundant amount of microsporidia in the bloodstream of H.axyridis under light microscope and again confirmed using electron microscope. Once microsporidia enters the bloodstream, it undergoes RNA transcription inside the cell. But in H.axyridis it is in inactive state due to absence of gene transcription factor and doesn’t cause any harm in them perhaps it has established immunity towards them. This forms a shield for H.axyridis eggs as well as larvae but when ingested by native ladybird species i.e. Coccinella beetles leads to death. Amplification of microsporidia shows that its RNA matches closely with Nosema thomsoni. This is present in all H.axyridis by vertical
2.5. Identification of fungal isolates by sequencing the ITS region For DNA extraction, the fungus was grown in a 250 mL flask containing 50 mL of liquid ME medium for 7 days. Mycelium was harvested by vacuum filtration, washed with sterile Milli-Q water, and lyophilized. Then 2.5 ml of HSE solution (10
Materials and Methods In order to isolate the DNA, 10 ml of a sterile 0.9% saline solution was vigorously swished back and forth in the participant’s mouth for 5 minutes. The solution was then expelled into a test tube and place into the centrifuge at 1000xg for 10 minutes to
B. bigemina, B. caballi, B. bovis, and T. equi were gained from cultures with parasitemia of 5%, which was diluted with suitable uninfected red blood cells to a starting parasitemia of 1% for the assays. The growth inhibition assay was done in 96-well plates containing 20 μl of packed red blood cell inoculum and 200 μL of an appropriate culture medium containing 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 μM of ebselen. The concentrations used were based on a initial study. Positive control cultures received 5, 10, 50, 100, 1000 or 2000 nM of diminazene aceturate (Aboulaila et al., 2010a). For negative experimental control, cultures without the drug and cultures containing DMSO 0.01 % for Ebselen and DDW 0.02 % for diminazene aceturate were arranged. The experiments were carried out in triplicate wells per drug concentration for each parasite species and in three isolated trials. Cultures were incubated at 37 °C in an atmosphere of 5 %
The small amount of colonies were put into a labeled PCR tube which contained: 10 µl GoTaq Master Mix, 1 µl F primer for the SSU, 1 µl R primer for the SSU, and 7µl of H20. The tubes went through a various thermal cycler program. 10min at 95 celsius, 30 seconds at 95 celsius, 30 seconds at 55 celsius, 2 minutes at 72 celsius, and 10 minutes at 73 celsius. The tubes were placed in a refrigerator until gel electrophoresis.
Due to the similarities between Plasmodium and Babesia and Theileria parasites luteolin might have inhibitory effect on these blood parasites. The aim of the present study was to evaluate microscopically the inhibitory effects of luteolin on the in vitro growth of three Babesia species and T. equi and on the in vivo growth of B. microti. Furthermore, to study the effects of luteolin on the transcription of B. bovis DNA gyrase subunits A and B by Reverse transcription-PCR
DNA Isolation, Quantification, and Visualization DNA isolation is a process of DNA purification through physical and chemical means. DNA was protected within the nuclear membrane of B. rapa, which was surrounded by a cell membrane and cell wall. Mechanical and chemical lysis of the cell was necessary to break open the cells and solubilize the membranes to isolate the DNA. Mechanical lysis, which consisted of grinding the leaves with a pestle, broke down the cell wall. Chemical lysis, through the use of lysis solution, broke down the lipid-base membranes. The lysate was placed inside the Zymo-spin IV spin filter to remove chunks of debris from the solubilized cell components. A binding buffer was added to the collection tube that held DNA,
After cell lysis and DNA extraction, 100µl of DNA was stored at -30oC prior to subsequent 16S rRNA PCR and gene sequencing. Universal primers 27F; AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG and 1492R; GGTTACCTTGTTACGACTT were used to target the 16S rRNA gene. PCR amplification was performed using a thermocycler with the following program: 25 cycles for 5 mins at 94oC, 30 secs at 94oC, 30 secs at 56oC and 90 secs at 72oC. The final elongation step was performed for 10 mins at 72oC. PCR products were analysed by agarose gel electrophoresis (Figure 1) to ensure the appropriate size of the amplification product. The PCR procedures were repeated in the similar manner except adding forward and reverse primer separately. Post PCR products were cleaned using Safodex G-50per the manufacturer’s instructions. Subsequently, the filtered PCR product was collected in fresh microtiter plates and heated at 90oC for 30 mins. The PCR product was submitted to the Ramaciotti DNA Sequencing Analysis Unit, at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW for DNA
DNA is an abbreviation for Deoxyribonucleic Acid, and is a microscopic long spiral. This spiral is inside every nucleus of body cells. The number of body cells is approximately 60 trillion.
3.2.2 Gel Electrophoresis To determine if our DNA sequences were properly extracted and amplified, we used gel electrophoresis. A 1% agarose gel was made using 1 gram of agarose powder per 100 ml of 1x TBE buffer. The solidified gel was placed in the electrophoresis tank containing 1x TBE buffer. Our samples were prepared by mixing gel loading solution with our PCR products (3 µL gel-loading solution, 5 µL PCR product). The samples were loaded in a selected order (table 2) and the gel was run between 30 minutes to an hour at 70-80 V (Lab 8, 2017)
LYTIC INFECTION Once the viral dsDNA has entered the nucleus, if it circularizes itself and becomes an episome within the nucleus, then the virus has entered a lytic life cycle. EBV replication takes place in specialized sites within the host nucleus, referred to as replication compartments8. It is believed that EBV replicates following the rolling circle replication model1. Figure 3 demonstrates how RCR works: after being cut with an endonuclease one strand is replicated continuously and the other is replicated discontinuously, putting together segments called linear concatamers and they code for circular DNA. Once EBV replication has begun the three stages of transcription begin to follow.
Genetic modification, otherwise referred to as recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology or gene splicing, has proven to be more precise, predictable and a better-understood method for the manipulation of genetic material than previously attained through conventional plant breeding. Agricultural applications of the technology have involved the insertion of genes of desirable agronomic traits into a variety of crop plants, and from a variety of biological sources. Examples include soybeans modified with gene sequence from a streptomyces species encoding enzymes that confer herbicide tolerance, and corn plants modified to express the insecticidal protein of an indigenous soil microorganism, Bacillus thuringiensis. A growing body of evidence suggest that technology and may be used to make enhancements to not only the agronomic properties but the food, nutritional, industrial and medicinal attributes of genetically modified crops.
PCR-RFLP Report PCR What is it: The Polymerase Chain Reaction is a method that uses the capability of DNA polymerase to synthesize to new DNA strands which are matching to the template strand. A primer needs to be added to the first nucleotide due to the fact that DNA polymerase only can add a nucleotide only onto a 3 '-OH group that already exists. Because of this condition, we are able to define a chosen region of template sequence which we can then generate millions to billions of copies. This technique was developed by Kary Mullis in 1983 and is a very common indispensable technique which has a variety of uses such as DNA cloning for sequencing, genetic fingerprints, detection and diagnosis of infectious disease (often cancer) etc...
Student ID: 10077161 Designing primers and optimisation of a Real-Time PCR assay Introduction This essay based on the principle of real time PCR which uses CYBR green dye that combines to any double stand DNA. This process included two maim steps. The first step was designing of HSV-1 primer and /or HSV-2 primer
The first strand cDNA was synthesized using 5µg of total RNA. The RNA and primer mix was incubated at 65°C for 15 min and then the tube was placed on ice for 5 min for chilling. Subsequently, 200 ng of gene specific primer, 5µl of RT-Buffer (10x), 0.25µl of RNasin (40U/ µl), 2 µl of dNTP mix (2.5 mM each), 5µl of DTT (0.1M), 2 µl of MMuLV RT (20U/µl) was added and the final volume 50 µl of reaction mixture was prepared using DEPC water. Reaction mixture was incubated at 42°C for 1 h and the reaction was terminated by heating at 94°C for 5 min followed by snap-chill on ice. The first strand was used for the PCR with gene specific primer for the second strand synthesis followed by cDNA. Further, reverse transcriptase - PCR (RT-PCR) was performed