Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (51): 8201-8205.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.51.001

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Different methods to extract total RNA from the knee cartilage tissue of Sprague-Dawley rats

Sun Zhi-tao1, Niu Wei2, He Sheng-hua1, Lin Ding-kun2   

  1. 1Shenzhen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong Province, China; 2Third Department of Orthopedics,Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong Province, China
  • Online:2014-12-10 Published:2014-12-10
  • About author:Sun Zhi-tao, M.D., Shenzhen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81173285

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Currently, there are many methods to extract cartilage RNA reported in the literature, and classic Trizol method has been mostly reported in China. However, it is discovered that RNA extracted by the Trizol method cannot meet the needs of the follow-up experiments.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the difference of different methods to extract total RNA from the cartilage tissues of Sprague-Dawley rats.
METHODS: Nine Sprague-Dawley rats of 3 months old were selected to extract total RNA respectively by Rneasy Lipid Tissue Kit, RNAout kit and classic Trizol method. Agarose gel electrophoresis was used to detect RNA integrity in order to explore the best extraction scheme of total RNA.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: When Trizol method was used to extract RNA, the A260/A280 value was 1.58, indicating that the purity was not high. Due to a large number of proteoglycan and collagen in the cartilage, RNA extracted using RNAout method cannot meet the needs of the follow-up study. When RNeasy® Mini Kit and liver method (Trizol) were used to extract RNA, the A260/A280  values were 2.00 and 1.98, respectively, indicating that the extracted total RNA or nucleic acid had high purity. The RNA electrophoresis results showed that using RNeasy ®Mini Kit, RNAout and liver method (Trizol), 18 s, 28 s and 5 s stripes were visible; but there was no stripe using Trizol method. For RNAout method, 28 s and 18 s stripes were unclear. These results show that the total RNA obtained by the Rneasy Lipid Tissue Kit has the high purity, integrity and stability, and can successfully synthesize double-stranded cDNA by reverse transcriptase, but RNAout kit and classic Trizol methods cannot meet the need of subsequent experiments.



中国组织工程研究
杂志出版内容重点:组织构建;骨细胞;软骨细胞;细胞培养;成纤维细胞;血管内皮细胞;骨质疏松组织工程


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Key words: cartilage, RNA, rats

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