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Madhvi 05:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday we talked about biobricks and cloning. Today we talked about assembly, BBb standard, and documentation. We also discussed our project plan today. In our demos, we run a PCR yesterday to amplify GFP from a plasmid. Today, we did a zymo cleanup, a restriction digest, and ran an analytical gel (E-gel).
I set up my notebook today and I am looking at papers to try to find a good choice of protein for the protein purification part of the project. I am also trying to find growth-phase dependent promoters.
Madhvi 05:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Last week, I didn't really find anything regarding a good choice of protein, but I did find the rrnB P1 promoter that robustly turns off when cells enter the stationary phase. I also designed the oligos for my basic parts (variations of Cre, ligase, BglII, BamHI and the rrnB P1 promoter). Construction files for these parts (K112100-K112121) are included in the construction files section of my notebook. All of my oligos have not yet come in. They should be in tomorrow and I should be able to run PCRs tomorrow.
In the meantime, I have been doing a few things to determine the assay conditions for the Gateway reactions. On Friday and Monday, Jin and I made concentrated stocks for the six parts of the Gateway buffer (1M Tris pH 7.4, 5M NaCl, 1M Spermidine, 0.5M EDTA pH 8.1, 50mM DTT, 10 mg/mL BSA). Yesterday, I mixed appropriate volumes of them to make 10mL of a 1x Gateway Buffer (22mM Tris, 100mM NaCl, 7mM Spermidine, 5mM EDTA, 2mM DTT, 1mg/mL BSA) and stored it at 4 degrees. Jin says it should be stable for approximately one week.
Today, Jin and I ran the regular clonase reaction with pBjh1600 (RFP entry vector with p15a origin) and pBjh1601CK (dbl check?) (CK assembly vector with p15a origin). The reaction is set up with 0.6uL EB Buffer (Dilute Tris), 0.3uL Assembly vector miniprep, 0.3uL Entry vector miniprep, and 0.3uL LR Clonase II. We also ran this reaction (usually 1.5uL) scaled up to 10uL by adding 8.5uL of 1x gateway buffer. We transformed both products into DH10B and plated on KC plates after 1hr. reaction time. We will compare the number of colonies on both plates tomorrow.
I also am growing up cultures two cultures which we will use tomorrow for a Gateway reaction after arabinose induced lysis. The first culture is TG1 (ccdB immune strand) with pSB3C6-Bjh1311 (p15a origin), pHA57 (temp. dependent origin of replication (pSB1A2?)), and pBjh1600. The second culture is TG1 with pSB3C6-Bjh1311, pHA57, and pBjh1601AK. We will mix given amounts of the two culture, wash and resuspend in our 1x gateway buffer and then lyse with arabinose. We will transform the resulting reaction mixture into DH10B and if the reaction was successful we should see colonies on AK plates.
I am also growing up cultures of Righty and Lefty cells to make competent cells that I can use to make my BamHI and BglII basic parts.
