From Georg Dietzl in Barry Dickson’s Lab, IMP Vienna 12/2002
SQUISHING BUFFER (SB)
- 10 mM Tris-HCl pH8
- 1 mM EDTA
- 25 mM NaCl
- 200 g/ml Proteinase K
Procedure
- 200 g/ml Proteinase K are added to the squishing buffer (SB) freshly from 20X stock every day.
- Place 1-2 (I always take 2) flies in a 0.5 ml tube (I use 96 microwell plates from MJ Research since I usually do a larger number of preps at once). Mash the flies for 5-10 sec with a yellow pipette tip containing 50 l of SB, without expelling any liquid (sufficient liquid escapes from the tip). Then expel the remaining SB. (If you use 96 microwell plates you can use a 100 or 300 l 8-channel pipette for mashing the flies. This works really well and is much faster for a larger number of samples)
- Incubate at 37 o C for 30 min
- Inactivate the Proteinase K by heating to 95 o C for 3 min.
- Spin down the solid junk briefly and pipette the supernatant to a new tube / microwell plate.
- That's it
96 Well modifications (GG)
The protocol can be executed directly on 96 wells plates.
- Place one fly per well
- Add few microliters of SB then spin down using a centrifuge with plates adapters
- Squeeze flies using either a multi well pipette with yellow tips or the custom made 3D printed squeezing tool
Vosshall Lab Modifications and Notes:
(1) Use Disposable Kontes Pellet Pestle for grinding. These come with RNase/DNase free 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tubes that we use to freeze the 2 flies. Packaged separately but included in the catalog number below are RNase/DNase free disposable pestle grinders that are very effective at grinding flies.
Fisher Scientific Catalog Number: K749520-0090 2003 list price: $88.30/100 tubes + pestles
(2) Make a 10mg/ml Roche Proteinase K stock solution in 1XPBS and freeze in small aliquots at -20 o C. Immediately before use, add 20ul of this Proteinase K stock solution to 1 ml of SB
(3) Use 1 ul of this crude DNA prep for PCR reactions.
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