1.0 mm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads

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Useful for bead-beating finer soil, soft tissues, and thin leaves, 1.0 mm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads (Zirconium Silicate) are a good choice for applications requiring more forceful grinding with media denser than silica and less expensive than stainless steel. Zirconium is also characteristically inert.

Downstream applications involve efficient purification and quantification of bacterial DNA, lipid extraction of mouse livers and colons for LC-HRMS (Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry), and facilitation of the extraction and reverse transcription of RNA from plant parasitic nematode tissues. Moreover, its usefulness in advanced pre-rRNA analysis surpasses the capabilities of traditional qPCR and sequencing techniques for the precise interrogation and quantification of the growth status of targeted bacterial species within a diverse gut microbiome.

Our 1.0 mm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads are ready to use, having been treated with acidified water to remove fine particles, dust, and other impurities typically found in untreated beads, and further baked to drive off organic impurities.

Citations

Johnston, M. D., Whiteside, T. E., Allen, M. E., & Kurtz, D. M. (2022). Toxigenic profile of Clostridium perfringens strains isolated from natural ingredient laboratory animal diets. Comparative Medicine, 72(1), 50–58. https://doi.org/10.30802/aalas-cm-22-000013 (Most of the Clostridium perfringens strains isolated were toxinotype A, with most strains also possessing the theta toxin)

Le, H. H., Lee, M.-T., Besler, K. R., & Johnson, E. L. (2022). Host hepatic metabolism is modulated by gut microbiota-derived sphingolipids. Cell Host & Microbe, 30(6), 798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2022.05.002 (A labeling method was used to identify and follow the path of sphingolipids produced by the gut-associated bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron as they moved to the colons and livers of mice)

Solo, N., Kud, J., Dandurand, L., Caplan, A., Kuhl, J. C., & Xiao, F. (2021). Characterization of superoxide dismutase from the potato cyst nematode, Globodera pallida. Phytopathology, 111(11), 2110–2117. https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-01-21-0021-r (The expression of the SOD-3 gene was studied in the early stages of infection in both susceptible and resistant potato cultivars to develop strategies to manage potato cyst nematode)

Weigel K.M., Olson A.M., Cangelosi G.A. Steady-State pre-rRNA analysis to investigate the functional microbiome. (2021) Curr Protoc. 1(7):e209. https://currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpz1.209 (PCR-based method was developed to measure the growth status of specific bacteria within a complex microbiome and describes a protocol to study the relationship between pre-rRNA levels and bacterial growth in vitro)

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1.0 mm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads

Useful for bead beating finer soil, soft tissues, and thin leaves, 1.0 µm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads (Zirconium Silicate) are a good choice for applications requiring grinding media denser than silica, less expensive than stainless steel, and inert in most solutions.

Our 1.0 mm Acid Washed Zirconium Beads are ready-to-use, having been treated with acidified water to remove fine particles, dust, and other impurities typically found in untreated beads, and further baked to drive off organic impurities.

Citations

Johnson, E. L.; Heaver, S. L.; Waters, J. L.; Kim, B. I.; Bretin, A.; Goodman, A. L.; Gewirtz, A. T.; Worgall, T. S.; Ley, R. E. Sphingolipid Production by Gut Bacteroidetes Regulates Glucose Homeostasis. bioRxiv 2019, 632877. https://doi.org/10.1101/632877.