Team:Hawaii/PCC6803 Electroporation of PCC6803

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Electroporation of PCC6803

  • This experiment can be used to introduce autonomously replicating plasmids to PCC6803.

Methods

  • 50 mL linear phase Synechocystis at OD730 0.5 collected by centrifugation
  • wash cells three times with 1mM 4-(2-hydroxyethyl-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid buffer pH 7.5
  • remove supernatant, resuspend in 100 uL of the remaining liquid by vortexing
  • 60 uL of cell suspension mixed with 0.1-16 ug DNA (dissolved in H2O) and electroporated with Biorad gene pulser (25uF capacitor used, time constant varied buy changing resistors (100, 200, 400, & 600 OHMS for time constant 2.5, 4.8, 9, 13 ms, respectively, electric field varied from 0-12kV cm-1)
  • IMMEDIATELY after electric pulse, cells resuspended in 1 mL BG11 & mixed with 50 mL BG11 in an Erlenmeyer flask
  • cells incubated 5 days under **specified growth conditions
  • 50 mL culture collected by centrifugation, resuspended in 500uL of remaining liquid, mixed with 5mL BG11 soft agar (BG11 + 0.75% agar)
  • Pour on plates with 25 mL BG11 agar with antibiotic
  • determine number of viable cells after electroporation: 10^-4 dilution made before collecting the culture, 50 uL of this dilution plated with out selection, incubate 14 days, count colonies. Total viable cells (colonies grown on non-selective plates * 10^7) and total number transformants (colonies on selective plates) determined
    • cultivation: Synechocystis is photoautotrophically grown in BG11, for BG11 agar plates, BG11 supplemented with 10mM N-Tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid (pH 8), 12mM Na2S2O3, & 1.5% Agar

Results


Discussion

  • We need check that we have all the necessary reagents.
  • This protocol is adapted from a protocol for PCC6714, which is not naturally competent. However it seems we can use this for PCC6803 so we can obtain autonomously replicating plasmids.
  • Ludwig, Alfred, “Transformation and gene replacement in the facultatively chemoheterotrophic, unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6714 by electroporation,” Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2008) 78:729–735
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