How is human DNA depleted during sample processing?
Human DNA depletion
- Samples are treated with a buffer
lysing the human/animal cells, while bacterial and fungal cells stay intact.
- The released human/animal DNA is enzymatically degraded along with all other
free DNA and bacterial and fungal cells are sedimented at the end.
- This procedure
requires bacterial and fungal cells to be intact in the samples.
- Please refer
to “What are the sample requirements” for more details.
Illustration of MolYsis process