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Things we did today

Wetlab work

Checked plasmid prep from weekend

Grace

[[Image:081108plasmidprep.jpg|right|thumb|200px|EtBr stained 0.8% agarose gel ran at 95V for 1 hour. Five microliters of plasmid were loaded into each well.

  • Ran on 2.0% agarose gel to verify plasmids
  • DNA didn't run. Agarose concentration too high. Redid on 0.8% gel.
  • Genomic DNA up top?
  • Clean prep (no RNA)!
  • Only E0240 verified. All other bands wrong size (circular/supercoiled?)
  • Checked DNA concentrations via nanodrop spectrometer
Plasmid DNA concentration 260/280 260/230
E0240 757.7 ng/μl 2/06 1.49
I14032 (2005 distribution) 541.4 ng/μl 2.01 1.27
I51020 2775.6 ng/μl 1.97 1.77
nir+rbs 566.8 ng/μl 1.83 1.10
plac+rbs 344.0 ng/μl 1.95 1.28

Made 1000x Amp,sub>100</sub> stock solution

Grace

Reinoculated for cryostocking

Grace
  • I14032 from 2005 and 2008 distributions

Construction of GFP device

Grace
  • Extracted nir+rbs, plac+rbs, GFP, GFPf from gel ran yesterday
  • B0015 could not be extracted because fragment was not visible under short wave UV
  • Digestion was done for 3A assembly rather than rear ligation (oops). Redid RE digest.
  • Checked DNA concentrations via nanodrop spectrometer
Part DNA concentration _ nir+rbs 4.8 ng/μl
plac+rbs 3.6 ng/μl
GFP 4.7 ng/μl
GFPfusion 6.4 ng/μl
  • Restriction digested in 30 μl reactions:
  • B0015 with XbaI then EcoRI
  • GFP and GFPf with EcoRI and SpeI
  • slr1, slr2, pilA with SpeI and PstI
  • Ran new RE digests EtBr stained 2% agarose gel at 72V for 2 hours
  • Extracted parts from gel and determined DNA concentrations


Discussion

  • FYI:
  • According to the Endy lab, ligation reactions should have <100ng DNA per reaction for maximum efficiency
  • ~10ng vector should be used in ligation reactions (6:1 ratio of insert to vector)

Quote of the Day

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. - Étienne Gilson


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