A Practical Manual for Microbial Genetics

New Book on Practical Microbial Genetics


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents

Orientation of Microbial genetics / Molecular Biology Laboratory

Theory
Micropipettes
DNA Extraction
Role of Sodium in DNA Extraction
Restriction Enzymes
Plasmid
Bacteriophages
Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR








Experiment no. 1
Calibration of Micropipettes

Experiment no. 2
Preparation of different Tris buffers: Tris-HCl, Trsi-EDTA and TAE

Experiment no. 3
Isolation of DNA from human blood

Experiment no. 4a
Extraction of chromosomal DNA from Gram positive bacteria

Experiment no. 4b
Extraction of chromosomal DNA from Gram negative bacteria

Experiment no. 5a
Plasmid DNA extraction from bacteria (Alkaline lysis method)

Experiment no. 5b
Isolation and purification of bacterial plasmid with Qiagen spin (QIAprep) Miniprep system

Experiment no. 6
RNA extraction from yeast

Experiment no. 7
Spectrophotometric analysis of DNA in extracted solution

Experiment no. 8
Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA

Experiment no. 9a
Demonstration of induction / repression mode of lac-operon regulation system in Escherichia coli
     
Experiment no. 9b
Determination of level of induction of lac-operon in Escherichia coli

Experiment no. 10
Conjugation in bacteria: Co-culture of MDR Salmonella enteritidisTyphi with Escherichia coli HB 101 and detection of transconjugants by antibiotic selection method

Experiment no. 11
Transformation of Escherichia coli HB101 by plasmids: pUC18 or pBR322

Experiment no. 12
Study of performance of HindIII and EcoRI restriction enzymes

Experiment no. 13a
Construction of recombinant DNA: Preparation and purification of insert (Lambda DNA fragments) and vector (pUC18) DNA

Experiment no.13b
Construction of recombinant DNA: Ligation of purified insert (Lambda DNA fragments) and vector (pUC18) DNA

Experiment no. 14a
Amplification of recombinant DNA: Transformation of recombinant pUC18 DNA in Escherichia coli HB101

Experiment no.14b
Detection of recombinant DNA: Extraction of recombinant pUC18 DNA from transformed Escherichia coli HB101 clones

Experiment no. 14c
Detection of recombinant DNA: Extraction of recombinant pUC18 DNA in plasmid extracts of transformed Escherichia coli HB101 clones by agarose gel electrophoresis

Experiment no. 15a
Amplification of Escherichia coli DNA (genes) by Polymerase chain Reaction (PCR)

Experiment no.15b
Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RAPD-PCR)


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