A procedure for large-scale plasmid isolation without using ultracentrifugation
Chakrabarti, A.; Sitaric, S.; Ohi, S.
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 16(2): 211-215
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0885-4513 PMID: 1333773 Document Number: 392457
An expedient procedure for large-scale plasmid isolation from Escherichia coli strains without using ultracentrifugation or special setups or reagents is described. The protocol, which utilizes a modified alkaline extraction procedure as well as differential precipitations by isopropanol and lithium chloride, is simple and rapid and yet produces plasmid DNA with a yield of about 2 mg/liter culture. The isolated plasmids consisted of mostly monomeric and dimeric covalently closed circular DNA. The plasmids could be digested by various restriction endonucleases and were compatible with gene cloning, transfection-gene expression, and viral production.