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ArticlePloS one2021

An optimized method for RNA extraction from the polyurethane oligomer degrading strain Pseudomonas capeferrum TDA1 growing on aromatic substrates such as phenol and 2,4-diaminotoluene.

María José Cárdenas Espinosa, Tabea Schmidgall, Georg Wagner, Uwe Kappelmeyer, Stephan Schreiber, Hermann J Heipieper, Christian Eberlein

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

María José Cárdenas EspinosaDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Tabea SchmidgallDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Georg WagnerDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Uwe KappelmeyerDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Stephan SchreiberDepartment Molecular Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5219-7974
Hermann J HeipieperDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3723-9600
Christian EberleinDepartment of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4521-8145
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial degradation of xenobiotic compounds is an intense field of research already for decades. Lately, this research is complemented by downstream applications including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), RT-PCR, qPCR, and RNA-seq. For most of these molecular applications, high-quality RNA is a fundamental necessity. However, during the degradation of aromatic substrates, phenolic or polyphenolic compounds such as polycatechols are formed and interact irreversibly with nucleic acids, making RNA extraction from these sources a major challenge. Therefore, we established a method for total RNA extraction from the aromatic degrading Pseudomonas capeferrum TDA1 based on RNAzol® RT, glycogen and a final cleaning step. It yields a high-quality RNA from cells grown on TDA1 and on phenol compared to standard assays conducted in the study. To our knowledge, this is the first report tackling the problem of polyphenolic compound interference with total RNA isolation in bacteria. It might be considered as a guideline to improve total RNA extraction from other bacterial species.

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Culture MediaPhenolPhenylenediaminesPolyurethanesPseudomonasRNA, BacterialXenobiotics2,4-diaminotolueneCulture MediaPhenolPhenylenediaminesPolyurethanesRNA, BacterialXenobiotics

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