Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the invention discloses a method for detecting the length of telomeric DNA based on electrotransfer and vacuum transfer, the transfer of telomeric DNA can be completed in 10min, the deviation after the transfer is small, and the detection result is accurate and stable.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a telomere DNA transfer device comprises a negative pressure box, a positive plate, a DNA transfer assembly and a negative plate;
the negative pressure box is a hollow box body, the top of the negative pressure box is opened, and an air suction port is arranged on the side surface or the bottom of the negative pressure box;
the positive plate, the DNA transfer assembly and the negative plate are sequentially arranged at the opening from bottom to top;
the positive plate and the negative plate are respectively connected with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the external power supply, and air holes are distributed on the positive plate and the negative plate;
the DNA transfer assembly comprises filter paper, a hybridization film and an electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA, and the filter paper, the hybridization film and the electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA are sequentially placed between the positive plate and the negative plate from bottom to top.
The DNA transfer assembly is arranged between the positive plate and the negative plate, and can transfer the DNA to the hybridization film rapidly under the action of an electric field; air holes are uniformly distributed on the positive plate and the negative plate, and the air holes are vacuumized from the air exhaust port, so that the transfer of high molecular weight telomere DNA can be promoted through negative pressure, the transfer time is further shortened, and the transfer deviation is reduced.
The positive plate and the negative plate can be made of conductive materials and are provided with air holes.
Preferably, the positive plate and the negative plate are prepared by mixing graphene powder and silica sand powder (80-150 meshes) in a ratio of (1000: 1) - (50: 1) and placing the mixture in a mold for high-temperature sintering to form the electrode plate with the air holes with the diameter of 30-50 mu m.
Preferably, the hybridization membrane is an NC membrane or a nylon membrane.
Preferably, the DNA transfer assembly further comprises a silica gel membrane, the silica gel membrane has an opening corresponding to the band region on the electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA; the silica gel membrane is placed between the hybridization membrane and the filter paper.
The arrangement of the silica gel membrane can ensure that a band area on an electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA forms stronger negative pressure, thereby promoting the transfer of the telomere DNA.
Preferably, a plurality of openings can be formed in the silica gel membrane, each opening corresponds to a band region of the electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA during installation, and then a plurality of electrophoresis gel blocks of telomere DNA are processed simultaneously.
Preferably, the telomere DNA transfer device further comprises a support plate, wherein a plurality of ventilation openings are uniformly distributed on the support plate; the supporting plate is arranged at the opening; the positive plate is placed on the supporting plate.
The backup pad is used for supporting the positive plate, avoids long-term back positive plate to produce deformation.
A telomere DNA transfer method uses the telomere DNA transfer device to transfer telomere DNA on an electrophoresis gel block of the telomere DNA to a hybridization membrane.
The telomere DNA transfer method comprises the following steps:
(1) assembling a telomere DNA transfer device, wetting filter paper by using transfer liquid in the assembling process, and communicating an air suction port with a negative pressure air suction pump;
(2) and opening a negative pressure air pump, connecting an external power supply, transferring the telomere DNA, and continuously adding the transfer liquid to the electrophoresis gel block of the telomere DNA in the transfer process.
Preferably, the vacuum degree during the transfer of telomere DNA is 0.04MPa, and the applied voltage is 3V/cm.
Preferably, the transfer solution is 20 × SSC.
And transferring the telomere DNA on the telomere DNA electrophoresis gel block to a hybridization membrane by using the telomere DNA transfer device or the telomere DNA transfer method, and hybridizing to detect the length of the telomere DNA.
According to the technical scheme, compared with the prior art, the electric field is introduced on the basis of vacuum transfer, so that the transfer speed of the telomere DNA with high molecular weight is higher, the result is more accurate and stable, and the method is suitable for telomere DNA (3-10 kb for human and about 100kb for mouse) with different molecular weights.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1-2, a telomere DNA transfer device comprises anegative pressure box 1, apositive plate 2, aDNA transfer component 3 and anegative plate 4.
Thenegative pressure box 1 is a hollow box body, the opening at the top is provided with a mountinggroove 101, and the side is provided with anair suction opening 102.
Thepositive plate 2 is placed in the mountinggroove 101, and theDNA transfer assembly 3 and thenegative plate 4 are sequentially placed on thepositive plate 2 and tightly attached to each other.
Thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 are respectively connected with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of an external power supply. The preparation method of thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 comprises the following steps: graphene powder and 100-mesh silica sand powder are mixed in a ratio of 50:1, and the mixture is placed in a mold and sintered at high temperature to form the electrode plate with the air holes with the diameter of 30-50 mu m.
TheDNA transfer assembly 3 comprisesfilter paper 301, ahybridization film 302 and anelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA, and thefilter paper 301, thehybridization film 302 and theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA are sequentially placed between thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 from bottom to top.
Thehybrid membrane 302 is a nylon membrane.
Theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA is an agarose gel block of the telomere DNA of the sample.
Example 2
As shown in figures 2-5, the telomere DNA transfer device comprises anegative pressure box 1, a support plate 5, apositive plate 2, aDNA transfer component 3 and anegative plate 4.
Thenegative pressure box 1 is a hollow box body, the opening at the top is provided with a mountinggroove 101, and the side is provided with anair suction opening 102.
The supporting plate 5 is a stainless steel screen plate, and a plurality ofventilation ports 501 are uniformly distributed on the supporting plate; the support plate 5 is placed in theinstallation groove 101.
Thepositive plate 2, theDNA transfer assembly 3 and thenegative plate 4 are sequentially placed on the supporting plate 5, and all layers are tightly attached.
Thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 are respectively connected with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of an external power supply. The preparation method of thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 comprises the following steps: graphene powder and 100-mesh silica sand powder are mixed in a proportion of 100: 1 proportion, placing the mixture in a mould, and sintering the mixture at high temperature to form the electrode plate with the air holes with the diameter of 30-50 mu m.
TheDNA transfer assembly 3 comprisesfilter paper 301, asilica gel film 304, ahybridization film 302 and anelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA, and thefilter paper 301, thesilica gel film 304, thehybridization film 302 and theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA are sequentially placed between thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 from bottom to top.
The center of thesilicone membrane 304 is provided with anopening 3041, theopening 3041 corresponds to the banding region on the electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA, and the size of the opening is not less than the area of the banding region on the electrophoresis gel block of telomere DNA.
Thehybrid membrane 302 is a nylon membrane.
Theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of telomere DNA is an agarose gel block of the telomere DNA of the sample.
Example 3 method for detecting telomere DNA Length
1. Preparation of telomeres (genomic DNA extracted using Qiagen69506 kit)
(1) Culturing cells in a 10cm cell culture dish, discarding cell culture solution, washing with PBS for 2 times, digesting with pancreatin at 37 ℃ for 3min, collecting in a 15mL centrifuge tube, centrifuging for 3min at 200g, discarding supernatant, washing cells with PBS for 2 times, and transferring to a 1.5mL centrifuge tube.
(2) Adding 200. mu.L of buffer TL, blowing and mixing evenly, adding 20. mu.L of proteinase K, and oscillating and digesting in a water bath kettle at 57 ℃ for 30-60min until the cells are completely lysed.
(3) Adding 220 μ L of buffer BL, mixing by vortex, and shaking and standing in a water bath kettle at 50 ℃ for 10 min.
(4) Add 220. mu.L of absolute ethanol and mix by vortexing.
(5) The DNA adsorption column in the kit was placed in a 2mL collection tube, and all the liquid obtained in the previous step was added to the adsorption column and centrifuged at 13000rpm (15871g) for 1 min.
(6) The filtrate was discarded, the column was returned to a 2mL centrifuge tube, and 500. mu.L of BufferKB was added to the column, and the column was centrifuged at 13000rpm (15871g) for 30 seconds.
(7) The filtrate was discarded, and the column was returned to a 2mL centrifuge tube, and subjected to centrifugation with DNAWashingBuffer 650. mu.L at 13000rpm (15871g) for 1 min.
(8) The filtrate was discarded, and the column was returned to a 2mL centrifuge tube, and subjected to centrifugation with DNAWashingBuffer (450. mu.L) at 13000rpm (15871g) for 1 min.
(9) The filtrate was discarded, the adsorption column was put back into a 2mL centrifuge tube, and centrifuged for 2min with the lid opened at 13000rpm to remove the residual ethanol.
(10) The column was placed in a new 1.5mL centrifuge tube, 100. mu.L of preheated (70 ℃ C.) Elutionbuffer (for Real-time PCR) or enzyme-free water (for southern blot and C-circle) was added to the center of the column membrane, and the column was allowed to stand at room temperature for 1-3min and centrifuged at 13000rpm (15871g) for 1min to elute DNA.
(11) Mu.g of the genomic DNA obtained in step (10) was subjected to restriction digestion with HinfI and RsaI for 2 hours, the genomic DNA was digested, and telomere DNA was retained.
2. Telomere agarose gel electrophoresis
Adding 500ng telomere DNA into 6 XLoading buffer solution, mixing and Loading; 1-2V/cm, wherein telomere DNA is electrophoresed from the negative electrode to the positive electrode; electrophoresis was stopped until the bromophenol blue indicator approached the other end of the gel.
3. Rotary film
Transferring DNA in the agarose gel to a nylon membrane to form solid-phase DNA; the method comprises the following specific steps:
(1) assembly example 2 telomeric DNA transfer device:
the support plate 5 is placed in the mountinggroove 101, and thepositive plate 2 is placed on the support plate 5. Thefilter paper 301 is laid on thepositive electrode plate 2, and thefilter paper 301 is wetted with 20 × SSC transfer liquid. And then sequentially paving thesilica gel film 304 and thehybrid film 302 on thefilter paper 301, taking theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of the telomere DNA obtained in thestep 3, placing theelectrophoresis gel block 303 on thehybrid film 302, and enabling the band area on theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of the telomere DNA to be positioned at the position of theopening 3041 on thesilica gel film 304.Negative plates 4 were placed on theblock 303 of gel electrophoresis of telomeric DNA. The layers are tightly attached. Thepositive plate 2 and thenegative plate 4 are respectively connected with the positive electrode and the negative electrode of an external power supply. Thesuction port 102 communicates with a negative pressure suction pump.
(2) And (3) opening a negative pressure air pump, connecting an external power supply, transferring telomeric DNA, wherein the vacuum degree is 0.04Mp, the applied voltage is 3V/cm, the transfer time is 10min, and the transfer liquid is continuously replenished to theelectrophoresis gel block 303 of the telomeric DNA from the top of thenegative plate 4 in the transfer process.
4. Hybridization of
And hybridizing with a telomere probe, and detecting the length after developing the color. Utilizing Telotool software to uniformly divide telomere dispersion bands into 20 regions, carrying out brightness statistics on each region, and converting according to molecular weight markerStatistics (Janett)
Nick Fulcher,Jaroslaw Jacak,Karel Riha et al.2014.Telo Tool:a new tool for telomere length measurement from terminal restriction fragment analysis with improved probe intensity correction.Nucleic Acid Res,42:21-27)。
Example 4
Human cervical cancer cells HeLa 1.2.11 (Carolyn Price laboratory, university of Occinagi, USA) were tested for telomeric DNA (18 kb telomeric length) using the method of example 3 and compared by replacingstep 3 with the conventional vacuum transfer method.
Conventional vacuum transfer methods: placing filter paper, a nylon membrane and an electrophoresis gel block of telomeric DNA in a telomeric DNA transfer tank from bottom to top, and removing air bubbles. And opening a negative pressure air pump, performing suction filtration and membrane transfer, and continuously supplementing the transfer liquid 20 XSSC on the rubber surface in the period. The transfer time is 10min and 30min respectively.
As shown in FIG. 6, the result of the telomere DNA transfer for 10min using the method of example 3 is better than the result of the transfer for 30min using the conventional method.
Example 5
The cell line 293T (1) was treated using the method of example 3 and the conventional method of example 4, respectively
ACS-4500, telomere length 5.2kb), HeLa: (
CCL-2, telomere length 5.4kb), HCT16 (C: (C) ((C))
CCL-247EMT, telomere length 7.0kb), HT080
CRL-12012, telomere length 9kb) was detected, and the results are shown in fig. 7. Macromolecules when calculating the length of telomere DNAThe weight occupied by DNA was higher, so the results generated by the method of example 3 were closer to the actual telomere length.
Further, telomeric DNA length was determined using fluorescence in situ hybridization (Zijlmans JMJM, Martens UM, Poon SSS, Raap AK, Tanke HJ, et al (1997) Telomers in the mouse have inter-chromosomal variations in the number of T2AG3 repeats. Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 7423-7428.). As shown in FIG. 8, the method of example 3 has high consistency and small deviation with the fluorescence in situ hybridization result.
Further, the telomeric DNA of 4 cells was repeatedly detected 3 times by using the method of example 3 and the conventional method of example 4, and the result is shown in fig. 9, and the method of example 3 of the present invention is more repeatable.
Example 6
The method of example 3 was used to detect telomeric DNA of mouse tail, mouse liver and mouse brain cell, respectively, as shown in FIG. 10, the method of the present invention is also applicable to large fragment telomeric DNA.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to the above-described embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.