Team:Lethbridge/Notebook

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Calendar

May

May 5

Roxanne, Megan, Alix, Mackenzie, Sebastian

  • prepared Lb Media in test tubes -prepared 250mL LB agar for plates
  • Prepared 500nM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), EDTA (pH 8.0, 500nm) TE Buffer (pH 8.0), GTE (Solution I), 2M NaOH, 10% SDS

May 6

Roxanne

  • Autoclaved LB test tubes, LB agar, Tris-HCl, EDTA, TE, GTE
  • Added ampicillin to LB agar (100ug/mL) -Poured LB + amp plates

May 12

Roxanne

  • Prepared LB agar
  • added Tetracyclin (100ug/mL) –
  • Poured LB + ampt plates

Roxanne, Alix, Ashley, Megan, Mackenzie, Kirsten

  • transferred pE43 (DH5α) cells from gylcerol stock to 5mL LB+Tet test tube (x8)
  • placed in orbital shaker overnight at 37°C

May 13

Roxanne

  • Removed test tubes from shaker (16hrs incubation) and placed in deli fridge

May 14

Roxanne, Alix, Ashley, Mackenzie, Kirsten

  • Preformed alkaline lysis miniprep on pE43 plasmid -lost plasmid from 2 tubes
  • obtained 6X pE43 plasmid (2X ohbR, 2x ohbB, ohbA, ohbC)

May 19

Roxanne, Alix, Ashley, Kirsten, Megan, Mackenzie

  • Gel Electrophoresis : 1% agarose in TAE

Lane 1: Ladder

Lane 2: ohbR1

Lane 3: ohbR2

Lane 4: ohbC

Lane 5: ohbB1

Lane 6: ohbB2

Lane 7:ohbA

Lane 8:ohbC

Lane 9: ohbB1

Lane 10:ohbB2

  • DNA quantification by UV spec 260nm : 2.013 280nm: 1.105 260/280 : 1.984 Concentration: 2517µg/mL PCR of ohbA, (ohbB)x2, ohbC, (ohbR)x2
  • Took picture of the gel - it did not turn out.

May 21

Roxanne

  • Made 50X TAE Buffer
  • Running PCR amplicons & RS/pSB1A2 ligation product on a 1% agarose gel
  • Jeff gave tutorial on primer design and quick-change mutagenesis to Kirsten, Ashley, Mackenzie, Fan, Lisza, Roxanne

Ohb PCR-Phusion (Rox).JPG

May 26

Roxanne, Alix, Megan, Mackenzie, Kirsten

  • Gel did not turn out gave tutorial on open wetware and the igem registry

May 28

Roxanne

  • reran the gel from may 19th, only primer dimers present

Ohb PCR (Roxanne).JPG Roxanne, Ashley, Alix, Kirsten, Mackenzie, Megan

  • Redoing the PCR of ohbA, ohbB, ohbC and OhbR with Phusion DNA Polymerase

Roxanne

  • refilled the tip boxes

May 29

Roxanne

  • prepared glycerol stocks for autoclaving

June

June 1

Roxanne

  • Ran a 1% agarose in TAE gel of the PCR products from May 28th.
  • 5µL of ladder, 2µL of DNA

Lane 1: ladder

Lane 2: ohbA (conc.1x)

Lane 3: ohbA (conc.1/10)

Lane 4: ohbB(1x)

Lane 5: ohbB(1/10)

Lane 6: ohbC(1x)

Lane 7: ohbC(1/10)

Lane 8: ohbR (1x)

Lane 9: ohbR(1/10)

Lane 10: ohbR(1x)

  • Gel did not show any amplification

Mackenzie & Roxanne

  • Transformation of pSB1A3 into DH5α
  • Made 2 aliquots of pSB1A3 and 1 of pUC19
  • plated pSB1A3-1: straight and dilute, pSB1A3-2: straight and dilute, pUC19: straight only incubated overnight at 37°C

June 3

Roxanne

  • positive control worked
  • Think the transformation worked but slight problem. The plasmid contains a suicide gene. Therefore, any cells that took up the plasmid would die.
  • planning new genes to transform
  • GENE LOCATION pSB1A3 + IPTG Inducible RFP 1-1k Bba_I13522, pTET GFP 2-8A Bba_I13521, pTet mRFP 2-6O Bba_I13600, pTET CFP 1-24E BBA-B0015, double terminator 1-23L

June 4

  • Picked some glycerol stock GFP for the AIF visit
  • made ampicillin plates 371.39g/mol X100mmol/LX0.002L = 74.278mg

June 15

Transformed the pTet and EYFP genes from the Biobrick registry


June 16

  • Picked colonies in the early morning for Mini prep in the afternoon
  • Restriction digested the plasmids: pTet with SpeI and PstI, EYFP with XbaI and PstI

June 17

  • Quenched the restriction digests from the day before

June 18

  • Checked the concentrations of:
    • Riboswitch-1 : 4549u/.mL
    • Riboswitch-2 : 4283ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-1 : 106ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-2 : 90ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-3 : 78ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-4 : 74ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-4b : 67ug/mL
    • rpsA TIR-5 : 70ug/mL

in order to send for sequencing with the UR and UF2 primers


June 22

  • Picked one colony each from DH5a + pTet and DH5a + EYFP.
  • Grown overnight at 37 degrees in LB +100ug/mL Amp (5mL culture tubes)
  • From mini-preps of EYFP(1&2) and pTet (1&2) did preparative restriction digests
    • pTet with PstI and SpeI
    • EYFP with XbaI and PstI
  • In 37 degree water bath for 1hr and 20 min. Quenched at 60 degrees for 15 minutes.

June 23

  • Ran a 1% agarose gel (1mL 50X TAE with 49mL Milli-Q H2O and 0.5g of agarose).

Lane 1: 1kb ladder

Lane 2:EYFP1A

Lane 3: EYFP1B

Lane 4: EYFP1B runover

Lane 5: EYFP2A

Lane 6: EYFP2B

Lane 7: pTet-1A

Lane 8: pTet-1B

Lane 9: pTet2-A

Lane 10: pTet-2B

  • Samples were 2uL of dye and 10uL of DNA.
  • The gel was unsuccessful. Possible reasons include: too short of an incubation during restriction digest or the enzymes were not functioning properly

June 24 (June 23rd work).JPG

June 24

  • Mini-Preps of pTet and EYFP
    • 750uL of culture from the fridge into microcentrifuge tubes. Pellet at 13000rpm for 2 min. Removed supernatant and added the rest of the culture. Repelleted at 13000rpm for 2 min.
    • followed protocol according to Qiagen mini-prep protocol on page 2
  • Restriction Digest of EYFP and pTet
    • EYFP restricted with XbaI and PstI
    • pTet restricted with PstI and SpeI
      • Double digest:1uL buffer tango, 8uL DNA, 0.5uL of each enzyme
      • Single digest (1 for each enzyme): 0.5uL water, 1uLbuffer tango, 8uL DNA, 0.5uL enzyme
      • Negative control: 1uL water, 1uL buffer, 8uL DNA
      • 8 tubes total in to the thermocycler for 8hrs at 37, 15min at 60 then held at 4 before going into the -20 fridge.

June 25

  • Ran a gel of the digested EYFP and pTet and controls from the previous day.
  • Used 0.3g of agarose in 30mL of 1X TAE
  • made stock solution of 1x TAE
  • Ran gel at 100V for 1hr

Lane 1: 1kb ladder

Lane 2: Control-no enzyme(pTet)

Lane 3: pTet-pstI

Lane 4: pTet-SpeI

Lane 5: pTet-SpeI/PstI

Lane 6:EYFP-no enzyme

Lane 7: EYFP-PstI

Lane 8: EYFP-XbaI

Lane 9: EYFP-XbaI/PstI

Lane 10: 1kb ladder

  • Gel melted
  • Made 2 pTet and 2EYFP 5mL culture tubes with LB and Amp(100mg/mL). Left in incubator overnight at 37°C

June 26

  • Cells harvested from pTet and EYFP cultures into 4 tubes. Spun down and LB supernatant removed. Stored in -20 for future use.

June 30

  • 200mL cultures of cells with pTet, EYFP and CFP grown in LB and 100ug/mL Amp harvested by centrifugation then maxi-prepped.
  • Maxipreps
    • incubated cell pellets in 3mL of ALSI and incubated at RT for 15min
    • 6mL of ASL2 added and incubated at RT for 10min
    • 4.5mL of AlS3 added and placed on ice for 10min
    • Spun at 5000g at 4 for 15min
    • 5mL of each phenol and chloroform added to tubes containing resulting supernatant
    • spun for 10min at 4 and 5000g, upper aqueous layer saved
    • 5mL of chloroform added to aqueous layer and spun for 10 min at 4 and 5000g. Supernatant saved
    • 0.6 volumes isopropanol added to each tube and placed in -20 freezer for 30min –
    • spun for 10min at 4 and 5000g
    • pellet wasted with EtOH and airdried overnight
  • 5 culture (500mL) flasks of LB made: 10g tryptone, 5g yeast extract, 10g salt and 1L water