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Team:Hawaii/Test Competent E. Coli
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=== Results === | === Results === | ||
Revision as of 01:31, 4 June 2008
Contents |
Test Competent E. coli DH5a
- Test our competent cells against Callahan competent cells
Methods
Materials
- Transported 50uL of competent cells from Callahan Lab on ice
- 100uL batch 1 competent cells made at OD600 ~0.6 (split into two 50 uL aliquots 4-18a,4-18b)
- 100uL batch 2 competent cells made at OD600 ~0.3 (split into two 50 uL aliquots 2-17a,2-17b)
Procedure
- Thaw plasmid on ice
- Add 1uL plasmid pBluescript
- Incubate plasmid+competent cells on ice for 30 minutes
- Heat shock 60 sec at 42C
- Add 250 μl SOC
- Incubate at 37 C for 1 hour in 2 ml eppendorf tubes, with shaking (150 rpm)
- Plate 20 uL dilutions 1/1, 1/10, 1/100 to test competency
Results
Discussion
Next time, remember to aliquot out and transform only 50 ul of the competent cells.
- What was learned and how to do future experiments differently.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
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