To begin, start the robotic dissociator. Turn on the cooling by setting the slider at the top of the right of the screen to Cool, and clicking on it to start cooling so that the slider appears orange. Next, check that the attached NSR and NIB bottles have sufficient liquid and are properly cooled.
Remove the tissue samples from the minus 80 degrees Celsius freezer, and immediately place them on dry ice. Using a pre-cooled scalpel, cut the tissue into a 15 to 50 milligram piece on a pre-cooled Petri dish, or metal plate, placed on dry ice. Remove the nuclei isolation cartridge from the refrigerator and unpack it.
Remove the grinder, and pipette 15 microliters of RNAs inhibitor to the bottom of the cartridge. Using tweezers, place the tissue sample at the bottom of the cartridge. Next, select Run a Protocol on the instrument, and click on the Nuclei option in the upper left corner.
From the menu, select the Low Volume Nuclei isolation protocol, and then click on Modify to verify that the disruption speed is set to fastest. Then, open the instrument door. Insert the cartridge into the designated location.
Rotate the cartridge lock, and slide into the stage until the red knob clicks into place. Close the door and click Next to start the nuclei extraction run. Once the run is finished, remove the cartridge from the instrument by lifting the red knob and pulling out the stage.
Immediately place the cartridge on ice.
