Recovery, Purification, and Cloning of High-Molecular-Weight DNA from Soil Microorganisms
- 15 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 74 (10), 3302-3305
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02630-07
Abstract
We describe here an improved method for isolating, purifying, and cloning DNA from diverse soil microbiota. Soil microorganisms were extracted from soils and embedded and lysed within an agarose plug. Nucleases that copurified with the metagenomic DNA were removed by incubating plugs with a high-salt and -formamide solution. This method was used to construct large-insert soil metagenomic libraries.Keywords
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