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J Microbiol Methods
; 194: 106432, 2022 03.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35134450
RESUMO
Cesium trifluoroacetate (CsTFA) is a gradient medium for isopycnic centrifugation in RNA-based Stable Isotope Probing (RNA-SIP), an important means to link the structure and function of microbial communities. We report a protocol to easily synthesize CsTFA from cesium carbonate (Cs2CO3) and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and show that self-synthesized CsTFA performs similarly to commercial CsTFA in the separation of isotopically labelled and unlabelled bacterial RNA.