Team:UNICAMP-Brazil/Notebooks/September 25

ColiGuard

E. coli F+ culture

• About 10 white colonies appeared at the culture plate, indicating that the cells incorporated the F plasmid. The plate was lacked and stored at 4°C.

Gabriel

Getting the visa

• Today was a happy day to five of us! We went to the U.S. Embassy in Sao Paulo and we got our visas! :D

finO and finP - Still Trying to Confirm our Biobricks

• We ran an agarose gel of yesterday's PCRs product.
• We couldn't obtain even a single amplified fragment! =(
• Why can the transformed cells grew in the media (that means they actually have the AMP resistence), but they haven't our inserts into it's plasmids?
• Our advisors suggested us that, since we digested our plasmid vector with Xba and SpeI (X sticky ends can come together with S sticky ends), it recircularized without the introduction of our inserts.
• Therefore, we must perform the dephosphorylation of our digested vector. That may prevent it from recircularizing without the insert introduction.

Marcelo

YeastGuard

Biofusion vector - Electroelution

Considering that we need more vector to perform the ligation reactions, we eletroeluted more vector from the digestion of the ADH1 biobrick previously digested with Xba1 and Spe1 (Protocol 12).

Taís