Contents and storage
The kit contains reagents sucient for 100 mL of whole
blood/buy coat or approximately 2 x 109 of mononuclear cells.
Table1CELLection™ Epithelial Enrich Kit (Cat.No.16203)
Contents Amount Storage
CELLection™ Epithelial Enrich
Dynabeads™ beads 5mL
2°C to 8°CReleasing Buer Component 1
(Turbo DNase) 2vials
Releasing Buer Component 2 2mL
Required materials not supplied
• Magnet (DynaMag™ portfolio). For recommendations, see
www.thermofisher.com/magnets.
• Mixer or shaker (e.g., HulaMixer™ Sample Mixer).
•Buer 1: Ca2+ and Mg2+ free PBS supplemented with 0.1%
BSA, pH7.4
•Buer 2: Ca2+ and Mg2+ free PBS with 0.1% BSA and 0.6%
Na-citrate or 2 mM EDTA.
Note: BSA can be replaced by human serum albumin (HSA)
or fetal calf serum (FCS).
•Buer 3: RPMI 1640 with 1% fetal calf serum (FCS), 1 mM
CaCl2 and 5 mM MgCl2, pH 7.0–7.4.
Procedural guidelines
IMPORTANT! Visit http://www.thermofisher.com/
samplepreparation for recommended sample preparation
procedures.
• Use a mixer that provides tilting and rotation of the tubes to
ensure that Dynabeads™ beads do not settle at the bottom of
the tube.
• Avoid air bubbles (foaming) during pipetting.
• Carefully follow the recommended pipetting volumes and
incubation times.
• Keep all buers on ice throughout the procedure.
• For optimal DNase activity, ensure that the pH in Buer 3 is
7.0–7.4.
• Samples from healthy donors spiked with epithelial cells
(e.g. SW480, ATCC no. CCL-228) can be used as a positive
control for the enrichment protocol.
Wash Dynabeads™ beads
1. To resuspend the Dynabeads™ beads in the vial, vortex for >
30 seconds or tilt and rotate for 5 minutes.
2. Combine equal volumes of Dynabeads™ beads and Buer 1
in a tube, then vortex to resuspend the beads. See “Volumes
for isolation of human epithelial cells from MNC or whole
blood/buy coat” on page4.
3. Place the tube in a magnet for 1 minute, then discard the
supernatant.
4. Remove the tube from the magnet, then resuspend the
washed Dynabeads™ beads in the same volume of Buer
1 as the initial volume of Dynabeads™ beads. See “Volumes
for isolation of human epithelial cells from MNC or whole
blood/buy coat” on page4.
Release buer preparation
1. For each vial of freeze-dried Turbo DNase, transfer 300 μL
from the Releasing Buer Component 2 to each vial of
Releasing Buer Component 1 (Turbo DNase).
2. Dissolve the enzyme gently by tilting gently or pipetting up
and down.
IMPORTANT! Vigorous mixing will destroy the enzyme.
3. Aliquot the reconstituted Releasing Buer into suitable
portions.
Store at –20°C. Thaw immediately before use and keep on ice
once thawed. Thawed Releasing Buer can be re-frozen once.
Prepare sample
Wash whole blood and bone marrow
The following procedure is important for removal of interfering
factors.
1. Dilute the whole blood or bone marrow in Buer 2 (1:1).
2. Centrifuge at 600 × g for 10 min at room temperature.
3. Discard the plasma fraction/upper layer.
4. Resuspend to the original volume in Buer 2 at 2°C to 8°C.
Treat bone marrow with DNase
The following procedure is important for removal of interfering
DNA.
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