Abstract
A PCR method is described to identify the species origin of various animal and human tissue-derived biochemical drugs. Four commercialized drugs, including spermary tablets, compound embryonic bovine liver extract tablets, spleen aminopeptide solution, and placenta polypeptide injection, were used as a proof-of-principle in this study. Primers were designed to amplify conservative regions of mitochondrial cytochrome b and ATPase 8 genes from beef, pork, lamb and human DNA, respectively. The specificity of primers for ATPase 8 gene is found to be higher than those for cytochrome b under the given experimental conditions. The amplicon sizes of ATPase 8 were 212, 271, 293 and 405bp for pork, beef, lamb and human tissue, respectively. The minimum detectable concentration of DNA sample for species identification is 0.05-0.5pg·μL-1. The species origin can be distinguished by this method in extremely low concentrations of template DNAs extracted. Conceivably, this PCR method for meat authentication may be extended to quality control of other biochemical drugs and raw materials. Graphical abstract A specific PCR method was developedfor thedetection of species origin in biochemical drugs via species-specific primers targeting mitochondrial ATPase 8 genes. The PCR products were separated by gel electrophoresis and species origins were indicated by comparison to references.
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