Team:KULeuven/10 September 2009
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Project progress
Weekly meeting, presentation can be found here.
Progress of parts
[edit] Blue Light Receptor
- Since the results from our light experiments keep failing, some new ideas were computed. pSB1A2 is the backbone for our construct but since this is a high copy number plasmid perhaps the ratio of promotor to repressor is unequal (not enough repressor). A new enting in LC was done with ligX. These were grown for a few hours at 37°C and then put in 16°C room overnight so that more repressor can be made (its promotor is temperature-sensitive).
- Ligation from 09/08 was electroporated in competent cells.
- Miniprep of LigX, restriction digest and gel electrophoresis. The signals were good so a motherplate for ligX was made. Also, the vector pSB1A2 was extracted from the gel (39,1 ng/µl).
Nanodrop results:
Part | concentration (ng/μl) | 260/280 λ | |
---|---|---|---|
LigX1(1) | 110,9 | 1,97 | |
LigX1(2) | 107,3 | 1,95 | |
LigX1(3) | 97,1 | 1,98 | |
LigX1(4) | 106,9 | 1,97 | |
LigX2(1) | 123,8 | 1,99 | |
LigX2(2) | 100,9 | 1,99 | |
LigX2(3) | 111 | 1,95 | |
LigX2(4) | 108 | 1,97 |
[edit] Vanillin Production
- Gel electrophoresis of TER restriction
- The vector for the TER is Psb1AK3 and has 3100bp, with an insert of ±3200 bp
- Gel extraction
part | concentration | 260/280 | 260/230 |
---|---|---|---|
TER | 14,2 | 1,97 |
- Created a motherplate from EF1
- Ligated EF restriction + TER restriction
- Transferred the SAMS 1 and SAMS 2 colonies to liquid medium
[edit] Vanillin Receptor
- puc+A was plated
- X+K was again elctroporated