Team:Washington/Notebook/protein gel

Protein Gel

1. Set up overnights of parts J36848-J36851
2. Dilute 1μL overnight into 1mL broth
3. Add 1 mM IPTG and let grow for four hours
4. After cells have grown up to saturation, heat water to a boil
5. Add 100μL of overnight to a 1.5mL tube
6. Pellet by spinning at max speed for 30 secs in the microcentrifuge
7. Discard supernatant
8. Pull an aliquot of 5x sample loading buffer out of the freezer and thaw
9. Add 20uL BME to aliquot
10. Resuspend samples in 50uL sample loading buffer (pipette up/down)
11. Boil samples for 10 minutes
12. While boiling, prepare 500mL 1x SDS buffer:
    1. 50mL 10x buffer to 450mL water
    2. Take a gel out of the fridge and and put it in the gel box (keep the gel container for staining!!!)
    3. Pour the mixed buffer solution into the half of the gel box that the gel is in
    4. Remove the gel comb
    5. Fill the little container on the top of the gel until it's about 0.5 cm from the top with buffer
    6. Remove any bubbles in the wells
13. Spin down samples for a few seconds
14. Vortex samples
15. Load 3uL into each well
16. Load 10uL of ladder in appropriate wells
17. Run at 180V until the dye is about to fall off the gel