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DGGE
DGGE was performed with a DCode denaturing gel electrophoresis system
(Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA). A parallel gel was prepared with
a denaturing gradient ranging from 15 to 40% as described in Appendix
1 (where 100% denaturant contained 7 M urea (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules,
CA) and 40% formamide (Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA). The gel also
contained a gradient of polyacrylamide ranging from 10 to 20%, made from
a 40% stock solution of acrylamide/bisacrylamide (37.5:1) (Bio-Rad Laboratories,
Hercules, CA). The gel was cast using a Bio-Rad Model 385 Gradient Delivery
System (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA) and a non-denaturing, 6% acrylamide
loading gel (Appendix 1) was cast on top of the gradient gel. The gel
was placed in 0.5x strength Tris/Acetic Acid/EDTA buffer (TAE) (Bio-Rad
Laboratories, Hercules, CA) equilibrated to 60 C. Five l PCR product
was mixed with 5 l loading buffer and applied to the gel wells. Electrophoresis
was carried out at 60 C for 15 h at 200 V. The gel was subsequently soaked
for 30 min in 1/10,0000x strength SYBR Green I nucleic acid gel stain
(Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene, OR) and visualized under UV-light.
Results and Discussion
Primer pair 1055F and1406R with GC-clamp yielded a single band on agarose
gel corresponding to a 400 bp DNA fragment when the PCR reaction was carried
out with Pfu polymerase on DNA extracted from L. m
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