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Published on: May 28, 2012
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis for Bifidobacterium
Esther Jiménez1, Marta Gómez, Laura Moles
1Departamento de Nutrición, Bromatología y Tecnología de los Alimentos. Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Av. Puerta de Hierro, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain, esjimene@vet.ucm.es.
Abstract:
Pulse Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), unlike conventional electrophoresis, can resolve DNA fragments greater than 30 kb and is a highly discriminatory molecular typing method. Here we describe a PFGE protocol for bifidobacteria characterized by a short lysis time determined by the addition of lysis reagents to the initial cell suspension, a reduced incubation period of the plugs in proteinase K, and an improved washing plug step with preheating of the buffer in a shaking incubator.
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