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BCCS-Bristol
iGEM 2009



Week 8

  • pQE31-GFP was digested and ligations with digested and purified FhuA were performed.
  • XL1-Blue competent cells were transformed with the pQE31-GFP+FhuA ligations.
  • The concentration of the DNA parts that we are going to send for sequencing was determined by spectrophotometry. These parts include: AraC-RBS, AraC-RBS-FhuA/OsmE, GFP-terminator and bioscaffolds-GFP-terminator.
  • Liquid cultures of the bioscaffolds-GFP-terminator were prepared and minipreps performed to isolated the plasmid DNA. Then the whole bioscaffold-GFP-terminator constructs were purified by gel extraction and ligations with the AraC-RBS-FhuA/OsmE were prepared.
  • Overnight ligations set-up;
1) AraC-RBS-FhuA-Bioscaffold-GFP-Terminator
2) AraC-RBS-OsmE-Bioscaffold-GFP-Terminator
  • Prepare liquid cultures for pQE31-GFP-FhuA.


Promoter-RBS-GFP-terminator ligation
  • This will be used to check that GFP works and also to check if the AraC promoter works by trying to control its level of activity using arabinose.
  • Restriction digest and gel purify GFP-terminator part and then ligate it to the already cut AraC-RBS on pSB1A2 plasmid.