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Team:LCG-UNAM-Mexico/LauraJournal
From 2009.igem.org
Goal and objectives
At the start I was working with the delivery system which includes P4 and P2 bacteriophages. However, on August I focused my attention on the phages involved in the defense system, T7 and T3.
My main goal was:
-To obtain all the relevant experimental information about T7 and T3 as the burst sizes and the growth plots with and without phage.
-To generate data to feedback the infection model.
I used two main protocols the Purification of T7 from 35ml lysates from the T7Select System Manual and the Titering Protocol described in the same Manual.
The activities ordered chronologically are described next.
August
On August I was working in verify the accurate of these protocols and in select a strain for the following experiments. In this month a purification protocol was realized with Escherichia coli K-12 strain, the lysis was unsuccessful. To probe the activity of the phague stocks I get the BL21 strain to work with T3 and T7, a purification protocol was realized with Escherichia coli BL21 strain, the lysis was successful. T3 and T7 bacteriophagues stocks were active. It was decided to use C1a to work with T3 and T7 because it is a K-12 derivative and because the next experiments will be focused on this strain. The purification of T7 and T3 using C1a strain was successful (OR stock)
In this month all the cultures get contaminated with yeast (strains C331, C-117, C1a, C-1906, c520, c1895, c2423). The contaminated cultures were transfered to generate spectomycin resistant. Resistants strains c-117, c1a, c331 and c1906 were obtained. I did PCR’s to be sure of the genome integrity. I amplified Cox for c117, c1a and c331; Ogr for c117, c331 and c1a and P4 for c1906, c1a and c331. I charged an agarose gel to check the PCRs, cox and ogr were seen when they were supposed to be. The resistant strains were contaminated with yeast. So, I did no more efforts in this. New stock of the main C1a stock was obtained.
September
From a culture with OD=0.8 I transferred 1.25ml to have a 100ml culture with OD=0.01. Every four hours for a period of 12 hours I took 1ml from this culture to take an OD measure(to 550nm) and I took another ml to do dilutions, I did cultures corresponding to the 10^-4, 10^-5 and 10^-6 dilutions, and an additional 10^-3 dilution for the first measure. I counted the number of UFCs (unit forming colonies) for these cultures and I calculated the number of UFC per ml in the original culture at time in which the sample was taken. After this, I obtained the formulae with the best adjustment to the points. The corresponding plots and formulae are presented next.
