Team:Valencia/Project/Lab work/2 experiments

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2.-Demonstration that thermogenin-expressing yeast strains can heat their own broth medium.

Materials

In our experiments we worked with the the following Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains kindly handed by Eduardo Rial :

  • UCP+
  • UCP-
  • Gly175Δ
  • Gly76Δ

Method

Each of our experiments entails the following steps:

  1. We prepare a 30ml inoculum for each strains in 100ml Erlenmeyer flasks with SD medium. We leave it overnight in the 28ºC stove.
  2. We prepare a second inoculum for each strain, this time in with 100ml SP medium in 1L Erlenmeyer flasks. The initial O.D. of this second inoculum should be aproximately 0.2.
  3. We start the experiment in the LCCs with a volume of 100ml, SP medium, and a initial O.D. of 0.6.
  4. We add 1% galactose to each of the LCCs containing the four yeast strains. This sugar is the UCP gene Gal7 promoter inductor.
  5. We monitor the temperature evolution in the LCCs thanks to our LCC system.




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