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= Week 1: from 07/20/09 to 07/24/09 =
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* Trasfomation of PSB1K3, PSB3K3, PSB1A2, PSB4A3(2007). Only the last one seems to work. We also use  PSB1A2.
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* "Work Preparations":
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# chemiocompetent cells from E. Coli DH5α, Top10 and DB 3.1
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* Trasformation and Amplification of A, B, C:
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= Week 2: from 07/27/09 to 07/31/09 =
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'''A)''' PSB3K3(LMC) + 1429 + RBS + LACI
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'''C)''' PSB3K3(LMC) + 1429 + RBS + GFP + T
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'''A + B'''   --->   Evaluation GFP fluorescence imaging comparing with the rRBS one
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We needed one high and one medium copy number vector, with different antibiotic resistance (A & K).
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We searched the Registry and we chos two possible combinations: pSB1K3 with pSB4A3 or pSB1A2 with pSB3K3.
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*Transfomation of:
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# pSB4A3 -> ''with BBa_J04500 and BBa_J04031'' from our part library
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using Top10 competent cells.
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*Inoculation, miniprep preparation and digestion, checked on agarose gel.
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# pSB1K3 -> ''from 2009 kit, with BBa_J04450''
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# pSB3K3 -> ''from 2009 kit, with BBa_J04450''
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using Top10 competent cells.
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'''B'''       --->   Evaluation GFP fluorescence imaging
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Since neither pSB1K3 nor pSB3K3 yielded colonies, we tried another transformation, choosing different kit wells.
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*Eluition and Transfomation of:
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# pSB1K3 -> ''from 2009 kit, with BBa_P1010''
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# pSB3K3 -> ''from 2009 kit, with BBa_P1010''
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# pSB3K3 -> ''from 2007 kit, with BBa_P1010''
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using DB3.1 competent cells.
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*Inoculation, miniprep preparation and digestion checked on agarose gel of pSB3K3 (2007 kit).
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We decided to use '''pSB1A2''' as high and '''pSB3K3''' as low to medium copy number as they revealed right MW bands when checked with agarose gel. In the meantime, we requested another pSB1K3 with BBa_P1010 from the Registry.
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= Week 2: from 07/27/09 to 07/31/09 =
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= Week 3: from 08/03/09 to 08/07/09 =
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* Sequences suspension to have 100 μM conc. (EP digestion and trasformation in a HCN plasmid  with AMP)
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*Cis-repressing (CIS) and Trans-repressor (TRANS_4 and TRANS_7)annealing
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! DNA sequences !! Plasmid
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=Week 3: from 08/3/09 to 08/7/09=
 
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* Amplification of CIS, TRANS 4 and TRANS 7 using PSB1A2. Inoculation and digestion.
 
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* Unexpeted results from the gel run in all three sequences (3000, 2200, 1000 bp instead of 2100, 2000, 100 bp):
 
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*Purification from agarose gel
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*Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells (-> few colonies)
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*Inoculation and miniprep preparation
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*Control digestion checked on agarose gel revealed wrong MW bands
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*Ligation of:
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*Transformation on DH5α competent cells
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*Digestion checked on agarose gel
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=Week 5: from 08/17/09 to 08/21/09=
=Week 5: from 08/17/09 to 08/21/09=
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* Done again the amplifications of CIS, TRANS 4 and TRANS 7 using PSB1A2 to undestand which is the problem we have had during the third week. Achieved the same wrong results.  
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In order to analyse the CIS/TRANS production ratio, we made some measures, using GFP as reporter.
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* We decided to sequence the 1000 bp strand to understand what it really is. We sent our material to the Bmr-genomics in Padova for the dna sequencing.
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We made another cloning attempt for CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7
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*Purification from agarose gel
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*Ligation of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 both on pSB1A2 and pSB4A3
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*Transformation in DH5α chemically competent cells (-> few colonies)
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*Inoculation and miniprep preparation
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*Control digestion checked on agarose gel revealed wrong MW bands
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In order to confirm the promoter ratio we decided to study the different GFP production without degradation tag (E0040) on pSB3K3 under J23100 (2547) and J23118 (1429)
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*Ligation of
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*Transformation in DH5α competent cells
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*Control digestion checked on agarose gel
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Experimental measures failed because GFP levels were too high to detect significant differences. We decided to use GFP with degradation tag (J04031 instead of E0040)
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* Re-Annealing of our sequences and after have done the PRC-Colony we discovered that the colonies were green. Probably due to a GFP contamination. The DNA sequencing coming from Padova confirmed our theory: in the 1000  bp strand there was the presence of GFP protein and no sign of our CIS or Trans sequences.
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*New annealing of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7
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*Purification from agarose gel of the annealed parts
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*X-P Digestion of:
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*Purification from agarose gel
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*Ligation of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 both on PSB1A2 and PSB4A3
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*Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
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*We checked colonies with colony PCR, obtaining wrong MW bands
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=Week 7: from 08/31/09 to 09/04/09=
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* Done some experiments (trasformation and digestion with the same plasmid, PSB1A2, using different concentration of annealed) to confirm the Gfp contamination. All the gel runs have a 1000 bp strand.
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*Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
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*Control digestion checked on agarose gel
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*New X-P digestion of CIS annealed and purified through agarose gel, increasing DNA quantity
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*Ligation both on PSB4A3 and PSB3K3
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*Only one colony from the ligation on PSB4A3 revealed correct MW band (about 300bp), but the plasmid isolated from this colony revealed wrong MW after digestion checked on agarose gel
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* Primers of our sequences arrived, so we amplified CIS-repressing and TRANS-repressor with a PCR. We designed primers so that they have the same sequence of the standard prefix and suffix.
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Since the restriction enzymes efficency is considerably reduced when there aren’t enough bases near their restriction sites, we started thinking that digestion could be our critical passage. We ordered longer primers, adding 7 bases to the end of each part. The added bases were the same for all standard vectors.  
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* Primers arrived, so we can use them to make our sequences longer.
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=Week 10: from 09/21/09 to 09/25/09=
=Week 10: from 09/21/09 to 09/25/09=
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* Performed other tests with CIS-repressing and TRANS-repressor.  
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*Transformation in DH5α competent cells
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*Digestion checked on agarose gel
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*Digestion of O2_RFP and ligation on:
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*Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
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*Transformation on DH5α competent cells
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*Digestion checked on agarose gel
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=Week 12: from 10/05/09 to 10/09/09=
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Contents

Week 1: from 07/20/09 to 07/24/09

  • "Work Preparations":
  1. chemiocompetent cells from E. Coli DH5α, Top10 and DB 3.1
  2. antibiotic stocks (Ampicillin and Kanamycin)
  3. LB medium and plates
  4. M9 medium

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Week 2: from 07/27/09 to 07/31/09

In order to build up our circuits, we started looking for stardard plasmids.
We needed one high and one medium copy number vector, with different antibiotic resistance (A & K). We searched the Registry and we chos two possible combinations: pSB1K3 with pSB4A3 or pSB1A2 with pSB3K3.

  • Transfomation of:
  1. pSB1A2 -> with BBa_J23100 and BBa_J04031 from our part library
  2. pSB4A3 -> with BBa_J04500 and BBa_J04031 from our part library

using Top10 competent cells.

  • Inoculation, miniprep preparation and digestion, checked on agarose gel.
  • Eluition and Transfomation of:
  1. pSB1K3 -> from 2009 kit, with BBa_J04450
  2. pSB3K3 -> from 2009 kit, with BBa_J04450

using Top10 competent cells.
Since neither pSB1K3 nor pSB3K3 yielded colonies, we tried another transformation, choosing different kit wells.

  • Eluition and Transfomation of:
  1. pSB1K3 -> from 2009 kit, with BBa_P1010
  2. pSB3K3 -> from 2009 kit, with BBa_P1010
  3. pSB3K3 -> from 2007 kit, with BBa_P1010

using DB3.1 competent cells.

  • Inoculation, miniprep preparation and digestion checked on agarose gel of pSB3K3 (2007 kit).

(the only one that yielded colonies)
We decided to use pSB1A2 as high and pSB3K3 as low to medium copy number as they revealed right MW bands when checked with agarose gel. In the meantime, we requested another pSB1K3 with BBa_P1010 from the Registry.
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Week 3: from 08/03/09 to 08/07/09

  • Cis-repressing (CIS) and Trans-repressor (TRANS_4 and TRANS_7)annealing
  • E-P Digestion of:
  1. CIS
  2. TRANS_4
  3. TRANS_7
  4. PSB1A2


DNA sequences Plasmid
H2O mQ == 4.5 μM H2O mQ == 19.5 μM
Sequence == 20 μM DNA (miniprep) == 5 μM
Buffer == 3 μM Buffer == 3 μM
BSA == 0.5 μM BSA == 0.5 μM
EcoRI enzyme == 1 μM EcoRI enzyme == 1 μM
Pst1 enzyme == 1 μM Pst1 enzyme == 1 μM
TOT: 30 μM TOT: 30 μM


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  • Purification from agarose gel
  • Ligation of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 on PSB1A2
  • Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells (-> few colonies)
  • Inoculation and miniprep preparation
  • Control digestion checked on agarose gel revealed wrong MW bands


  • Ligation of:
  1. 2547_RBS_GFP_T on pSB1A2
  2. 1429_RBS_GFP_T on pSB1A2
  3. 2547_RBS_GFP_T on pSB3K3
  4. 1429_RBS_GFP_T on pSB3K3
  • Transformation on DH5α competent cells
  • Digestion checked on agarose gel


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Week 4: from 08/10/09 to 08/14/09

HOLIDAY!!!
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Week 5: from 08/17/09 to 08/21/09

In order to analyse the CIS/TRANS production ratio, we made some measures, using GFP as reporter.

  • Transformation of
  1. 1429_RBS_GFP_T on pSB3K3
  2. 2547_RBS_GFP_T on pSB1A2
  3. 1429_RBS_GFP_T on pSB3K3 + 2547_RBS_GFP_T on pSB1A2

We made another cloning attempt for CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7

  • X-P Digestion of:
  1. CIS
  2. TRANS_4
  3. TRANS_7
  4. PSB1A2
  5. PSB4A3
  • Purification from agarose gel
  • Ligation of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 both on pSB1A2 and pSB4A3
  • Transformation in DH5α chemically competent cells (-> few colonies)
  • Inoculation and miniprep preparation
  • Control digestion checked on agarose gel revealed wrong MW bands

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Week 6: from 08/24/09 to 08/28/09

In order to confirm the promoter ratio we decided to study the different GFP production without degradation tag (E0040) on pSB3K3 under J23100 (2547) and J23118 (1429)

  • Ligation of
  1. 2547_I13504 on pSB3K3
  2. 1429_I13504 on pSB3K3
  3. 2547_I13504 on pSB1A2
  4. 1429_I13504 on pSB1A2
  • Transformation in DH5α competent cells
  • Control digestion checked on agarose gel

Experimental measures failed because GFP levels were too high to detect significant differences. We decided to use GFP with degradation tag (J04031 instead of E0040)

  • New annealing of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7
  • Purification from agarose gel of the annealed parts
  • X-P Digestion of:
  1. CIS
  2. TRANS_4
  3. TRANS_7
  4. PSB1AK3
  • Purification from agarose gel
  • Ligation of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 both on PSB1A2 and PSB4A3
  • Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
  • We checked colonies with colony PCR, obtaining wrong MW bands

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Week 7: from 08/31/09 to 09/04/09

  • Ligation of
  1. 1429_RBS_LacI_T on PSB1A2
  2. 1429_RBS_LacI_T on PSB3K3
  • Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
  • Control digestion checked on agarose gel


  • New X-P digestion of CIS annealed and purified through agarose gel, increasing DNA quantity
  • Ligation both on PSB4A3 and PSB3K3
  • Transformation on DH5α competent cells
  • We checked colonies with colony PCR
PCR Colony: CIS on PSB4A3 in the first well, CIS on PSB3K3 in the others














  • Only one colony from the ligation on PSB4A3 revealed correct MW band (about 300bp), but the plasmid isolated from this colony revealed wrong MW after digestion checked on agarose gel


  • Same results were obtained for TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 parts: colony PCRs seemed right, but we found wrong MW bands after checking on agarose gel.

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Week 8: from 09/07/09 to 09/11/09

  • We received primers and we made PCR of our 3 parts. (We used as primers standard prefix and suffix sequences). We made PCR both from annealed parts and from single strands, and we chose to extract the latter, because of the smears when checked on agarose gel.
PCR of CIS-repressing and TRANS-repressor with primers













  • New digestion of CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 extracted from gel
  • Ligation on pSB1A2 yielded no colonies at all

Since the restriction enzymes efficency is considerably reduced when there aren’t enough bases near their restriction sites, we started thinking that digestion could be our critical passage. We ordered longer primers, adding 7 bases to the end of each part. The added bases were the same for all standard vectors.

In order to analyse the high/low copy number plasmid ratio we decided to study the production of GFP without degradation tag on both pSB1A2 and pSB3K3, using 1429 promoter to avoid GFP saturation. Transformation of:

  1. 1429_I13504 on pSB3K3
  2. 1429_I13504 on pSB1A2

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Week 9: from 09/14/09 to 09/18/09

We started to assemble LacI repressor's natural operators on standard plasmids.

  • Digestion of
  1. K079017
  2. K079018
  3. K079019
  • Ligation with RFP (BBa_E1010)
  • Transformations in DH5α chemically competent cells
  • Digestion checked on agarose gel


  • We received longer primers for our sequences and made a new PCR in order to make them longer.
  • New cloning attempt failed again.


  • Transformation of pSB1K3 received from Registry in order to try ligation with BBa_P1010 ("Death" gene)

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Week 10: from 09/21/09 to 09/25/09

  • New cloning attempts for CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7. We reduced passage through gel using PCR extraction kit to purify PCR products and PSB1K3 with BBa_P1010
  • Digestion of
  1. O2_RFP
  2. O1_RFP
  3. Oid_RFP

and ligation on pSB1A2, in order to create standard BioBricks.

  • Transformation in DH5α competent cells
  • Digestion checked on agarose gel

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Week 11: from 09/28/09 to 10/02/09

  • Digestion of O2_RFP and ligation on:
  1. PSB1A2_1429
  2. PSB1A2_2547
  • Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
  • Control digestion checked on agarose gel
  • Digestion of:
  1. 1429_O2_RFP on pSB1A2
  2. 2547_O2_RFP on pSB1A2

and ligation with GFP (J04031)

  • Transformation on DH5α competent cells
  • Digestion checked on agarose gel

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Week 12: from 10/05/09 to 10/09/09

Thinking that our cloning problem was still due to wrong digestion, we made another attempt:

  • X-S digestion of TRANS_4 (we choose only one of our parts, since it was only a try)
  • Ligation on pSB1K3 with BBa_P1010
  • Transformation on DH5α chemically competent cells
  • Colony PCR made with two different primers revealed correct MW bands.
Colony PCR with standard Prefix and Suffix as primers: inserts were all at about 100bp as expected













Colony PCR with standard VR and VF2 primers: inserts were all at about 300bp as expected (100bp is the length of our parts and 200bp are nucleotides due to primers’ binding on plasmid)































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Week 13: from 10/12/09 to 10/16/09


  • Experimental measurement
  • Shipment of our parts to the Registry


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More information about our CIS, TRANS_4 and TRANS_7 cloning attempt can be found in "Story of a T-REX".

More information on experimental measures can be found in the Characterization section.

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