Estimating bacterial DNA synthesis from [3 H]thymidine incorporation: Discrepancies among macromolecular extraction procedures

Estimating Bacterial Diversity from Environmental DNA: A Maximum Likelihood Approach

Efficient genomic DNA extraction from low target concentration bacterial cultures using SCODA DNA extraction technology.

Methods for the extraction of nucleic acids are straightforward in instances where there is ample nucleic acid mass in the sample and contamination is minimal. However, applications in areas such as metagenomics, life science research, clinical research, and forensics, that are limited by smaller amounts of starting materials or more dilute samples, require sample preparation methods that are m...

Selective extraction of bacterial DNA from the surfaces of macroalgae.

A novel method has been developed for the selective extraction of DNA from surface-associated bacterial communities from the two model marine benthic algae Ulva australis and Delisea pulchra. The extracted DNA had no detectable contamination with host DNA, was recovered in high yield and quality, and was representative of the bacterial community on the algal surfaces. The DNA is suitable for a ...

Estimating bacterial production in marine waters from the simultaneous incorporation of thymidine and leucine.

We examined the simultaneous incorporation of [H]thymidine and [C]leucine to obtain two independent indices of bacterial production (DNA and protein syntheses) in a single incubation. Incorporation rates of leucine estimated by the dual-label method were generally higher than those obtained by the single-label method, but the differences were small (dual/single = 1.1 +/- 0.2 [mean +/- standard ...

Macromolecular synthesis in cells infected by frog virus 3.

Previous evidence indicated that frog virus 3 (FV3), an icosahedral DNA virus, replicates exclusively in the cytoplasm. However, data presented here demonstrate that FV3 does not replicate in UV-irradiated or enuleated chicken embryo or BSC-1 cells and that virus-specific DNA synthesis is not initiated in such cells. Primary transcription was not detected in infected enucleated cells. These res...