Glasgow/Wetlab
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Week 1
03/07
- Maija and Christine prepared LB broth and LB agar with Protocol 1. Made 4 batches of plates, 2 with kanamycin and 2 with carbenicillin.
04/07
- All wetlab researched BioBricks.
- Reporter constructs and mini-Tn5 stocks looked out.
- Streaked the following:
- P. putida PAW 340 pJAK14 (Carb. plate)
- Tn5 lux AB (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 lux AB (Carb. plate)
- P. Fluorescens NCIMB 9815 (Carb. plate)
- P. putida KT2440 (LB)
- JM109 pBluescript 5k+ (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 Tc (Carb. Plate)
- pQF52 (Carb. plate)
- P. Fluorescens 9815 (LB)
- E. coli pJAK14 (Km plate)
- Il DntR in pOF52 (Carb. plate)
- pUCINR in Ω strain C (Carb. plate)
- pGLTUR (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 Kan (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 Sm/Sp (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 1cc2 (Carb. plate)
- E. coli Sa1 (LB)
- DmpR #24 (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 lac 32 in E. coli 517 (Carb. plate)
- Mini-Tn5 Tc (Carb. Plate)
- Mini-Tn5 Cm (Carb. plate)
- DmpR WT (Carb. plate)
- E.coli sm 10 pESD15 Tn5 GFP (Carb. plate)
- pUJ8 (Carb. Plate)
05/07
- BioBricks – Maija and Scott transformed using Protocol 2.
- BBa_p1010 (DB3.1) (death gene plasmid) Plate 4: 7A – p5B1A10, 11E – p5B1A10 and 11C – p5B3K3
- BBa_IS2001 (Top10) (high copy number plasmid) Plate 4: 5I – p5B4A5, 5D – p5B4K5, 6B – p5B3K5, 6D – p5B4K5 and 6E – p5B4A5 (Also 5K, 5M, 4J, 4L, 4N, 4P)
- BBa_J23119 (Top 10) (strong constitutive promoter) Plate 3: 19A – pB1A2 (V1013)
- BBa_R0062 (Top 10) (HSL and luxR inducible) Plate 1: 9G – pSB1A2 (V1004)
- BBa_J04500 (Top 10) (IPTG inducible prom + RBS) Plate 1: 16P – p5B1AK3 (V1009)
- BBa_E0040 (Top 10) (GFP mutant no promoter (3b)) Plate 1: 5H – p5B1A2 (V1001)
- Maia and Christine researched restriction enzymes for the reporter constructs and Mini-Tn5s streaked on 4/7/07 and digested some. Had planned to make biobricks using Mini-Tn5s etc but discovered that a previous attempt to use transposable elements to make biobricks had been unsuccessful due to scarring at the restriction site. http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J61206
06/07
- Maija and Christine made 10x stocks for M9 (see Protocol 3).
- Tutorial in BioEdit and Primer3.
- Started designing primers for amplification and site directed mutagenesis of DmpR and DmpR #24 (see Protocol 4).
09/07
- Christine and Maija designed primers for site directed mutagenesis in DmpR, DmpR #24, ****, **** and ****, and amplification of DmpR and DmpR #24. Used Protocol 4, and to check Tm http://www.itt-biotech.de/itt-cgi/oligo-tm.pl
- Mai carried out restriction digests of DmpR and DmpR #24. Results were poor and gel gave poor visibility.
- Scott retransformed any of the transformations that did not work from the transformations from 5/7/07.
- 4/11C BBa_p1010 pSB3K3 death gene
- 4/5I BBa_I522001 pSB4A5 hi-copy
- 4/5D BBa_I522001 pSB4K5 hi-copy
- 4/6B BBa_I522001 pSB3K3 hi-copy
- 4/6D BBa_I522001 pSB4K hi-copy
- 1/5H BBa_E0040 pSB1A2 GFP non promoter
- Used transformations that did work and set them up tubes of LB for minipreps tomorrow.
- BBa_I52001 death gene plasmid (hi copy number)
- BBa-J23119 strong constitutive promoter
- BBa_R0062 HSL and luxR inducible
- BBa_306500 IPTG inducible and RBS
Plan is to use DmpR and DmpR #24 to detect phenol and produce lacZ. Grown on Xgal the better the bacteria detect phenol, the more blue they will be in a spectrophotometer.
10/07
- Mai did minipreps, according to Quiagen prepkit manual (see Protocol 5), of the transformations grown in LB last night (9/7/07).
- Wetlab and Drylab gave presentations to the team to explain key terms used in the lab (see Tutorials).
- Christine made tetracycline stock – 250 mg tetracycline in 50ml 100% ethanol to make 5mg/ml stock.
- Maija made thiamine stock (0.8g thiamine in 20ml dH2O and filter sterilized. Kept in freezer in foil (light sensitive).
- Christine grew E. coli pJAK14 in LB overnight at 37°C following protocol from Wise et al, 2000).
- Scott and Lynsey grew DmpR and DmpR #24 overnight in LB with Tc and Carb. This is because the plates streaked on 4/7/07 for DmpR and DmpR #24 did not grow, and restriction digests on 9/7/07 used up most of the DNA. What is grown will be mini-prepped and restriction digested tomorrow.
- 2x 5ml LB containing carb (50ug/ml) with DmpR
- 2x 5ml LB containing carb (50ug/ml) with DmpR #24
- 2x 5ml LB containing Tc (50ug/ml) with DmpR
- 2x 5ml LB containing Tc (50ug/ml) with DmpR #24
- 2x 5ml LB containing Tc (10ug/ml) with DmpR
- 2x 5ml LB containing Tc (10ug/ml) with DmpR #24
- Scott's retransformations (9/7/07) all worked (esp Top 10s, not so much DB3.1). To be mini-prepped tomorrow.