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Contents

August 1, 2008

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

Riboswitch 20 uL PCR. Set up 4 reactions (25 uL for each total volume). 1 uL or 1/100 pTopp and 1 uL or H1/100 PCR from July 28, 2008.

PCR conditions:

A. Initial denaturation: 98 C (3 min)
B. -Denaturation: 98 C (10 sec)
    - Annealing: 55 C (30 sec)
    -Extension: 72 C (15 sec)
    -30 cycles
C. Final extension: 72 C (7 min)



August 5, 2008

Nathan Puhl et al

Gel extracted two bands really closer to each other from PCR (August 1) at ~76 bp. Used Qiagen MiniElute kit. Results are in the hard copy lab notebook. Seems as if gel extraction was successful. ____ 2 color reporter system:

Set up digest of LacI and DT.

LacI - EcoRI and SpeI

DT - EcoRI and XbaI

Reaction mixture:

-5 uL template
-5 uL NEB 2 Buffer
-0.5 uL BSA?
-1 uL RE #1
-1 uL RE #2
- 37.5 uL ddH20

Left at 37 C overnight. Heat deactivation (65 C) for 15 minutes.


August 6, 2008

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

2 color reporter system:

Gel extracted LacI insert and DT vector. Didn't run gel yet.


August 7, 2008

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

Riboswitch:

Set up PCR using purified riboswitch from Aug. 5, 2008 with platinum Taq (50 uL reaction). Made Master Mix for three reactions. Master Mix:

-10x Buffer (no Mg2+): 15 uL
-10 mM dNTPs: 3 uL
-50 mM Mg2+: 4.5 uL
-10uM RF: 3 uL
-10uM RR: 3 uL
-Plat. poly: 0.6 iL
-H20: 120.9 uL
-template: 1 uL

Cycle conditions:

A. Initial denaturation: 94 C (2 min)
B. -Denaturation: 94 C (30 sec)
    - Annealing: 55 C (30 sec)
    -Extension: 72 C (30 sec)
    -30 cycles
C. Final extension: 72 C (7 min)

Roxanne

-Ran the PCR Product on a 3% gel using only 1uL of DNA from the riboswitch.


August 13, 2008

Nathan Puhl and Sebastian

Verified and quantified the LacI and DT restriction digest products.

Set up a Ligase experiment for LacI and DT

- 1.3 uL vector(DT)
- 8 uL insert(LacI)
- 2 uL 10x Ligase buffer
- 1.5 uL Ligase
- 7.2 uL ddH2O
- 20 uL total volume


August 14, 15

Nathan Puhl, Munima, Selina

Poured 61 LB + Amp plates. Stored in iGEM 4 C fridge.


August 15, 2008

Roxanne

Used Qiagen Plasmid MiniPrep Kit to Plasmid Prep Last Year's Biobrick Parts that were Incubated overnight.

Ran Plasmids in a 1% Agarose Gel at 100 V for 30 minutes.


August 16, 2008

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne, Munima

-Restriction Digested the purified riboswitch and pSB1A7 with XbaI and SpeI, let it run for 4 hours

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

-Ran all of the restricted pSB1A7 plasmid through a 1% agarose gel at 100V for 25 minutes. -Ran a gel extraction on the pSB1A7 cut plasmid, and ran a PCR clean-up reaction on the digested RS1 and RS2 amplicons. -Ran 1 uL of each on a 1% to quantify the amount of DNA present. -Ligated RS1 + pSB1A7, and RS2 + pSB1A7, using T4 DNA Ligase.

-1 uL of RS1/RS2
-4 uL of pSB1A7
-1 uL of 10x T4 DNA Ligase Buffer
-0.33 uL of T4 DNA Ligase
-3.67 uL of water

allowed the reaction to go overnight


August 17, 2008

Nathan Puhl

-Transformed DH5a cells with the pSB1A7 + RS1, and pSB1A7 + RS2 plasmids.

-Plated on semi-solid agar plates containing 100 ug/mL of ampicillin.


August 18

Christa, Nathan Puhl, Munima

-Nathan checked the plates for growth. Colonies are present.

-Ran a colony PCR of the pSB1A7 + RS1, and pSB1A7 + RS2 recombinant cells transformed by Nathan and Roxanne on August 17.

-Inoculated the cells into tubes of liquid media + 100 ug/ml of ampicillin.

Roxanne will remove the PCR tube from the thermocycler in the morning.


August 19, 2008

Roxanne

-Ran the PCR Product on a 2% Agarose Gel at 100 V for 33 minutes.

RS1 RS2 gel.jpg

-Plasmid Prepped and made glycerol stocks from the RS1-1 and RS2-1 tubes of cells incubated in LB media + 100 ug/mL ampicillin.

Ran the pRS1 and pRS2 plasmids on a 1% Agarose Gel at 100 V for 30 minutes.

PRS1 pRS2 gel.jpg

Christa, Munima, Sebastian

Did a plasmid prep on pSB1A7 using QIAprep Spin Miniprep Kit. Stocked 4- 50uL of pSB1A7 and stored in iGEM -20 C.

Sebastian, Nathan Puhl

Ran products from plasmid prep (pSB1A7 x 4 samples) on 1% agarose gel for 27 minutes.

-Lane 1 - 1 kb GeneRuler ladder (2 uL)
-Lane 2 -6 pSB1A7 (3 uL) + 6x loading dye (2 uL); Mixed up what sample was in Lane 4, so Lanes 5 and 6 were run.

Conclusion: The bands appeared to be at the correct size for pSB1A7.


August 21

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

-Screened the pSB1A7 + RS1, and pSB1A7 + RS2 by PCR using the VF2 and RS1/RS2 Reverse Primers determine whether the plasmids obtained from the recombinant cells contain the riboswitch, and if so, if it inserted in the correct orientation.


August 21, 2008

Roxanne

-Ran the PCR products on a 1% Agarose Gel at 100 V for 33 minutes. The gel was empty with the exception of primer dimers.

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

-went over the SELEX protocol with HJ to determine the primers we will need to do this, and how exactly we plan on perfoming the evolution.

-setup a restriction digest for pSB1A7 using XbaI and SpeI, ran overnight.


August 22, 2008

Christa, Munima, Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

Objective: Run a gel to confirm that appropriate inserts were amplified from the PCRs and do a gel extraction of the inserts to prepare them for the biobrick format.

-Could not obtain a picture of the gel (1% agarose) of the half of the digested pSB1A7 (15 uL x 3 wells) and 
the recently amplified 
CheZ gene (15 uL x 3 wells) because the camera would not turn on. 
  The CheZ gene appeared at the correct size (~700 bp).
-Did a gel extraction of pSB1A7 and CheZ from that gel with the Qiagen MiniElute Gel Extraction kit. 
Final volume of each was 10 uL.
-Ran another 1% agarose gel to confirm that the gel extraction was successful. Ran 1 uL of each sample. 
Bands appeared at appropriate sizes. The concentrations of pSB1A7 
  and CheZ were estimated to be 25 ng/uL and 80 ng/uL, respectively.

Next step: Digest pSB1A7 with antarctic phosphatase. A restriction digest will be performed at a later date on CheZ to prepare it for insertion.


August 23, 2008

Nathan Puhl, Roxanne

-Digested pSB1A7 with Antarctic Phosphatase

-9 uL of cut pSB1A7
-1.5 uL of 10x Antarctic Phosphatase Buffer
-1 uL of Antarctic Phosphatase Enzyme
-3.5 uL of water

Allowed the Reaction to take place for 30 minutes to remove the 5` Phosphates from the pSB1A7 plasmid to 
prevent religation.

-Ran the remainder of the pSB1A7 plasmid from August 22nd on 1 1% Agarose Gel at 100 v for 27 minutes.

-Gel Extracted the plasmid DNA.

-Purified the Phosphatase reaction to isolate the pSB1A7 DNA.

-Ran a 1% gel to quantify the amount of plasmid DNA present.

-Ligated RS1 and RS2 into the dephosphorylated pSB1A7 using T4 DNA Ligase.

-1 uL of RS1 or RS2
-4 uL of dephosphorylated pSB1A7
-1 uL of 10X T4 DNA Ligase Buffer
-0.33 uL T4 DNA Ligase Enzyme
-3.67 uL water

Reaction was allowed to go overnight


August 24, 2008

Nathan Puhl

-Transformed DH5a cells with the RS1+pSB1A7 or RS2+pSB1A7 plasmid on semi-solid agar plates containing 100 ug/mLof ampicillin.