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Table 3 Colony forming unit-normalized 16S r DNA copy number for various extraction protocols associated with three biological replicates of Escherichia coli O79

From: The near-quantitative sampling of genomic DNA from various food-borne Eubacteria

 

E. colicopies 16SrRNA “gene” per CFU

 

Extraction methods

Culture 1

Culture 2

Culture 3

Mean

Stdev

 

DNEasy

2.98

2.55

4.62

3.38

1.09

a

QuikExtrax (AmPure)

2.07

2.34

6.46

3.62

2.46

a

BeadBug

7.43

6.83

7.66

7.31

0.429

ab

Trizol

7.07

13.9

3.77

8.25

5.17

abc

Boiling Water

11.2

10.0

7.35

9.52

1.97

abc

PrepMan Ultra

10.7

14.2

10.5

11.8

2.08

abc

Genscript

12.7

12.0

18.9

14.5

3.80

bc

Agencourt

11.5

14.5

21.9

16.0

5.35

bc

Fast ID

12.5

18.6

18.9

16.7

3.61

c

High Pure

25.6

25.0

27.5

26.0

1.31

d

OmniLyse

28.6

23.0

29.1

26.9

3.39

d

  

CFU mL−1

    
 

5.61 × 108

6.04 × 108

6.13 × 108

   
 

±8.60%

±27.8%

±12.4%

   
  1. Any two means reported with different letters are significantly different at the P = 5 × 10-2 level.