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J Bacteriol. 1972 December; 112(3): 1033-1039
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Purification of Mycobacterial Deoxyribonucleic Acid1

Elizabeth B. Hill2, Lawrence G. Wayne and Wendy M. Gross

a Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, and Tuberculosis Research and Mycobacterial Reference Laboratories, Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, California 90801

ABSTRACT

Impurities believed to be polysaccharides have been found in mycobacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) preparations. Agar-gel diffusion of the DNA preparations against concanavalin A indicated the presence of three polysaccharides and was used to follow the purification procedures. The polysaccharides appeared to be the same for all strains studied. Precipitation of DNA with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide was used to separate impurities from some DNA preparations. The presence of the contaminants was found to affect markedly the determination of the guanine plus cytosine content according to a method dependent on the ratio of absorbancies at 260 and 280 nm; the impurities did not affect the determination by the method of thermal denaturation. The presence of a DNA-polysaccharide complex is suggested.

FOOTNOTES

2 Present address: 1844 Forest Hills Blvd., Apt. 3, East Cleveland, Ohio 44112.

1 From a thesis submitted to the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, by the senior author, under Public Health Service training grant 05-T1-AI-00132-10, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.S. degree.

J Bacteriol. 1972 December; 112(3): 1033-1039
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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