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=== wt E. coli vs. Lac-operon knockout E. coli ===
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Revision as of 22:26, 26 October 2008

Contents

Goals for this week

  • Shewanella and E. coli co-culture experiments
    • If Shewanella responds rapidly to lactate, and E. coli breaks down lactose into lactate, can we couple lactose breakdown by E. coli with current production by Shewanella?
    • Motivation:
      • An inducible system in E. coli could be used to control Shewanella current production

Monday: August 4, 2008

Co-culture experiment setup

  • Chambers 1 & 2: wt E. coli + wt Shewie + lactose
  • Chambers 4 &5 : Lac-operon knockout E. coli + wt Shewie + lactose

Positive Controls

  • Chamber 3: wt E. coli + wt Shewie + lactate
  • Chamber 6: Lac-operon knockout E. coli + wt Shewie + lactate

Negative Controls

  • Chamber 7: wt Shewie + lactose
  • Chamber 8: wt E. coli + lactose
  • Chamber 9: Lac-operon knockout E. coli + lactose

Tuesday: August 5, 2008

Co-culture experiment results, day 1

Co-culture part1.JPG
  • Notes:
    • At t = 2000 s, all cells added
    • At t = 80000 s, all injection done


Zoomed-in graph of results, part 1

Co-culture part1 zoomed.jpg
  • Notes:
    • Zoomed-in on time since injections
    • Positive controls omitted


Preliminary Conclusions

  • Noticeable difference in behavior between wt E. coli + Shewie and Lac-operon knockout + Shewie co-cultures
  • Positive and negative controls show most likely no other variables involved
  • Could be used to create tic-tac-toe which uses the difference in behavior to determine moves

Wednesday: August 6, 2008

Co-culture experiment results, day 1 & 2

wt E. coli vs. Lac-operon knockout E. coli

Co-culture part2 test.jpg
  • Notes
    • At t = 260000 s, adjusted gas for Chamber 5
    • At t = 340000 s, lactose injection for Chamber 1
    • Initially, very noticeable difference between wt E. coli and Lac-operon knockout E. coli, but the current production of one of the E. coli chambers rises after a day, making the difference less distinguishable


Results w/ positive controls

Co-culture part2 wpos.jpg

  • Notes
  • At t = 340000 s, lactose injections for Chambers 1, 3, and 6
    • Wanted to see if the positive controls would exhibit the same behavior when lactose injected instead of lactate

Co-culture part2.jpg

Thursday: August 7, 2008

Friday: August 8, 2008