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When Jodie Foster finally sets forth in the transport--read no further if you don't want to hear the movie's ending--she lands on a peaceful tropical beach thoughtfully provided by the aliens to cushion her culture shock.
2.5 ml of this suspension were transferred to each centrifuge tube and laid between a 100 ul STM 2.1 cushion and 200 ul of STM 0.8 (50 mM Tris/HCl, pH 7.4, 0.8 M sucrose, 5 mM MgSO 4 , 2 mM DTT, 1× protease inhibitor cocktail, 1 mM PMSF).
The supernatant was layered on a 30% sucrose cushion and centrifuged at 245,000×g for 2 h at 4°C.
Polysomal RNA was isolated from a detergent-generated supernatant on a 2 M sucrose cushion.
The aqueous portion of the extraction was layered onto a cushion of 5.7 M CsCl in ultracentrifuge tubes.