Mycoplasma test

Recipe Created on 10 Feb 2015

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Agnieszka Pastula

Procedure

1. Collect 0.5 ml supernatant from cells and put it into Eppendorf tube. Label the tube.

2. Centrifuge the supernatant in an Eppendorf tube at 200g for 1 min at room temperature to pellet cell debris.

3. Prepare Master Mix

Component	Volume (ul) per one reaction
Red Taq PCR Master Mix 2x (Sigma)	6.25
H₂O	4.75
Primer Mix 10 uM (r + f)	0.5
Supernatant	0.5
Total	12.5

Include:

positive control
negative control (NC) -> water instead of supernatant.

Use filtered tips!

4. PCR conditions

1.	95°C	5 min
2.	94°C	30 sec
3.	55°C	30 sec
4.	72°C	1 min
5.	72°C	10 min
6.	4°C

Steps 2-4 -> 40 cycles

5. Electrophoresis -> 2% agarose gel; expected product size: 270 bp

Primers

Mycopl f GGGAGCAAACAGGATTAGATACCCT

Mycopl r TGCACCATCTGTCACTCTGTTAACCTC

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