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To establish a rapid, simple, and scalable protocol for extracting RNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae without the limitations of conventional bead-beating techniques.

January 1, 1990Nucleic Acids ResearchOpen Access

A rapid and simple method for preparation of RNA fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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MSMark E. SchmittDartmouth College TBTimothy A. BrownSouth College BTBernard L. TrumpowerDartmouth College

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Experimental protocol demonstrates a rapid RNA isolation technique in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, highlighting improved scalability and workflow efficiency across multiple yeast samples.

Key Points

To establish a rapid, simple, and scalable protocol for extracting RNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae without the limitations of conventional bead-beating techniques.
Assessed standard RNA preparation constraints associated with mechanical glass-bead lysis in 10 ml yeast cultures.
Developed an alternative, non-tedious extraction procedure to process multiple yeast strains simultaneously across varied culture conditions.
Standard glass-bead vortexing protocols suffer from low RNA yields when scaled down to 10 ml culture volumes.
The streamlined extraction protocol circumvents mechanical bead disruption, enabling parallel sample handling for multiple yeast strains.

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Schmitt et al. (1990) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a02728cc2bdcf1ab80236c2 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/18.10.3091

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Experimental protocol demonstrates a rapid RNA isolation technique in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, highlighting improved scalability and workflow efficiency across multiple yeast samples.

A rapid and simple method for preparation of RNA fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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A rapid and simple method for preparation of RNA fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae

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