Revelation of Effective Methods for Detection of Viral Nervous Necrosis Virus Gene using Polymerase Chain Reaction in Barfin Flounder, Verasper moseri.

Accession number;01A0448118
Title;Revelation of Effective Methods for Detection of Viral Nervous Necrosis Virus Gene using Polymerase Chain Reaction in Barfin Flounder, Verasper moseri.
Author; WATANABE KEN'ICHI (Nihonsaibaigyogyokyo) YOSHIMIZU MAMORU (Hokkaido Univ., Graduate School of Fisheries Sci., JPN)
Journal Title;Suisan Zoshoku
Journal Code:Y0285A
ISSN:0371-4217
VOL.49;NO.1;PAGE.85-90(2001)
Figure&Table&Reference;TBL.2, REF.29
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Detection rate of viral nervous necrosis (VNN) virus gene using polymerase chain reaction was investigated. Tested specimens were: just hatched larvae, heads of larvae, eye or brain of juveniles, ovarian fluid and sperm obtained from brood fish. The specimens were mixed with a 10-fold serial dilution of virus solutions prepared from the eyes and brain of the Pacific Cod, Gadus macrocephalus, affected with VNN. For nucleic acid extraction, a comparison was made between 20-proteinase K, SDS- proteinase K, acid guanidium phenol chloroform, Isogen, TRIzol, RNA isolation kit, Catrimox-14, and High Pure Viral Nucleic Acid Kit. Isogen and/or RNA isolation kit showed the highest detection rate. PTC-200 and PJ 480 thermal cyclers were more effective than the PC-700 model. In comparison of reverse transcriptase, AMV, M-MLV, and Super Script II were tested; r Taq or Ex Taq was used as the DNA polymerase. Pairing of Super Script and Ex Taq was most effective. In PCR programs, 3-temperature PCR was more effective than 2-temperature PCR. (author abst.)