Detection of Mycoplasma species in cell culture by PCR and RFLP based method: effect of BM-cyclin to cure infections |
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Authors: | Gopalkrishna V Verma H Kumbhar N S Tomar R S Patil P R |
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Affiliation: | National Institute of Virology, P.O. Box 11, Pune - 411 001, India. gopalvk58@hotmail.com |
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Abstract: | PURPOSE: A two-stage nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay system was described that amplifies the 16S-23S rRNA spacer region sequences of Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma infections in cell cultures and virus stocks. METHODS: Established cell lines and virus stocks were screened for the presence of Mycoplasma by using nested PCR using two sets of outer and inner primers, amplifies 16S-23S rRNA. PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay was used to detect and identify most of the species-specific Mycoplasmas involved in cell cultures and virus stock contaminants. Infected cultures detected by PCR-RFLP were further treated with BM-cyclin (5 microg/mL) and passaged for three times and tested for Mycoplasma infections by PCR-RFLP. RESULTS: Mycoplasma pirum and Mycoplasma orale infections were detected by nested PCR. Species specificity was identified by using RFLP of Vsp I, Cla I and Hin dIII restriction enzymes. Mycoplasma infections were cured by treatment with BM-cyclin. This was further confirmed by non-amplification of PCR amplimers in BM-cyclin treated vs. non-treated cultures. CONCLUSIONS: Regular monitoring of cell cultures for Mycoplasma infections and identification of species-specific Mollicutes will identify the source of contaminations. This approach can be used for quality control of the biological reagents used in cell culture and virology laboratories. |
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Keywords: | BM-cyclin cell cultures Mycoplasma infections polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism |
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