INTERLAB
[Introduction]
We joined InterLab Measurement Study in this year.The objective of this year’s iGEM Interlab study is to quantify expression of five different reporter constructs.
[Materials and Methods]
Materials
・Safire ART-NR:F129013
It is a plate reader to measure absorbance and fluorescence of samples.
Methods
1. Calculate the OD600 Reference point
Measure absorbance 600 nm of LUDOX-S30 and H2O in a 96 well plate in our plate reader. It is to obtain a ratiometric conversion factor to transform our absorbance data into a standard OD600 measurement.
2. Generate the FITC fluorescence standard curve
Prepare a dilution series of FITC in 4 replicates and measure the fluorescence in a 96 well plate in our plate reader. By measuring these in all standard modes, we can generate a standard curve of fluorescence for FITC concentration.
3. Measure cell
Day1 : Transform Escherichia coli these plasmids.
Plasmids
・Positive control
・Negative control
・Device1 : J23101 + I13504
・Device2 : J23106 + I13504
(We couldn’t transform E. coli with device3.)
Day2 : Pick 2 colonies from each of plate and glow the cells in LB medium + Chloramphenicol overnight. (37○C and 220ppm)
Day3 : Cell growth, sampling, and assay
Measure OD600 of these cells cultures and dilute it to a target OD600 of 0.02 in 10 mL 0.5×TB medium + Chloramphenicol and incubate the cultures (37○C and 220rpm).At 0,1,2,3,4,5,and 6 hours of incubation take 100 μL samples of the cultures. At the end of sampling point, measure Absorbance 600 nm and Fluorescence of these samples. (Use same instrument setting when measuring the FITC standard curve.)
[Result]
1. Calculate the OD600 Reference point
The Abs600 data of LUDOX and H2O is Table1.
And correction factor to transform our absorbance data into a standard OD600 measurement is calculated by the following formula.
Correction factor = Reference OD600 / (LUDOX average – H2O average)
Table 1. Absorbance 600 nm of LUDOX-S30 and H2O
LUDOX | H2O | |
---|---|---|
replicate 1 | 0.0485 | 0.0387 |
replicate 2 | 0.0482 | 0.0395 |
replicate 3 | 0.0579 | 0.0377 |
replicate 4 | 0.0589 | 0.0384 |
Average | 0.0534 | 0.0386 |
Corrected Abs600 | 0.0148 | --- |
Reference OD600 | 0.0148 | --- |
Correction factor | 0.0997 | --- |
2. Generate the FITC fluorescence standard curve
The fluorescence data of FITC is table2. And FITC standard curve is figure1. We couldn’t measure the data of FITC concentration from 250 μM to 15.625 μM. Because we failed the settings.
Table 2. fluorescence data of FITC in any dilution
Concentration (μM) | 7.81 | 3.91 | 1.95 | 0.977 | 0.488 | 0.244 | 0 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
replicate 1 | 40211 | 20994 | 14525 | 7764 | 6858 | 4958 | 4502 |
replicate 2 | 46944 | 24730 | 15296 | 9009 | 7835 | 6234 | 5512 |
replicate 3 | 46384 | 26163 | 14271 | 9337 | 7858 | 4613 | 3915 |
replicate 4 | 45427 | 24076 | 12632 | 8586 | 5658 | 4273 | 2712 |
Average | 44742 | 23991 | 14181 | 8674 | 7052 | 5020 | 4160 |
S.D. | 3085 | 2180 | 1121 | 680 | 1040 | 857 | 1169 |
Fig.1
3. Measure cell
Table 3.
Sample | Abs600 reading | Volume of preloading culture | Volume of preloading media |
---|---|---|---|
Positive control | 0.0799 | 9.26 | 0.741 |
Negative control | 0.0690 | 18.7 | -8.69 |
Device1 | 0.0814 | 8.66 | 1.34 |
Device2 | 0.0805 | 9.01 | 0.991 |
Media+chl | 0.0583 | --- | --- |
Table 4. blank substraction and correction (bacteria concentration)
Positive control 1 | Positive control 2 | Negative control 1 | Negative control 2 | Device 1-1 | Device 1-2 | Device 2-1 | Device 2-2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 h | 0.02040 | 0.01861 | 0.09539 | 0.01392 | 0.02190 | 0.021 | 0.009639 | 0.01113 |
1 h | 0.04103 | 0.03934 | 0.02568 | 0.03087 | 0.02889 | 0.02758 | 0.02758 | 0.02897 |
2 h | 0.1035 | 0.1014 | 0.09595 | 0.1029 | 0.05598 | 0.5349 | 0.09834 | 0.09804 |
3 h | 0.1832 | 0.1841 | 0.1625 | 0.1789 | 0.1073 | 0.1063 | 0.1608 | 0.1702 |
4 h | 0.3287 | 0.3313 | 0.3176 | 0.3394 | 0.1875 | 0.1810 | 0.3076 | 0.3090 |
5 h | 0.4961 | 0.5037 | 0.4722 | 0.5253 | 0.3389 | 0.3310 | 0.4858 | 0.4858 |
6 h | 0.7103 | 0.7191 | 0.6908 | 0.7418 | 0.5524 | 0.5456 | 0.7116 | 0.7067 |
Fig.2
Table 5. blank substraction (fluorescence)
null | Positive control 1 | Positive control 2 | Negative control 1 | Negative control 2 | Device 1-1 | Device 1-2 | Device 2-1 | Device 2-2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 h | 4550 | 5376 | 1488 | 941 | 18215 | 18519 | 3956 | 4360 |
1 h | 6166 | 6942 | 414 | 294 | 18064 | 18362 | 3688 | 4091 |
2 h | 18428 | 19780 | -426 | -255 | 26946 | 27597 | 6800 | 7414 |
3 h | 25619 | 27051 | -495 | -340 | 33766 | 35092 | 10233 | 10839 |
4 h | 32258 | 34499 | -652 | -480 | 50905 | 51913 | 14704 | 15534 |
5 h | 47617 | 50169 | -802 | -494 | -8413 | -8413 | 25032 | 25931 |
6 h | -8413 | -8413 | -693 | -439 | -8413 | -8413 | 35887 | 35386 |
Fig.3
Table 6. Value of Flu/Abs600
null | Positive control 1 | Positive control 2 | Negative control 1 | Negative control 2 | Device 1-1 | Device 1-2 | Device 2-1 | Device 2-2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 h | 223025 | 288914 | 156012 | 67595 | 831851 | 881857 | 410449 | 391624 |
1 h | 150277 | 176476 | 16127 | 9532 | 625632 | 665830 | 133738 | 141207 |
2 h | 178015 | 195018 | -4438 | -2476 | 481340 | 515931 | 69151 | 75625 |
3 h | 139881 | 146900 | -3044 | -1900 | 314667 | 330090 | 63629 | 63687 |
4 h | 98152 | 104118 | -2052 | -1414 | 271443 | 286880 | 47799 | 50269 |
5 h | 95985 | 99608 | -1698 | -940 | -24822 | -25413 | 51525 | 53376 |
6 h | -11845 | -11699 | -1003 | -592 | -15230 | -15419 | 50435 | 50074 |
Table 7. Average and S.D.
Average | Positive control | Negative control | Device 1 | Device 2 | S.D. | Positive control | Negative control | Device 1 | Device 2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 h | 255970 | 1118034 | 856854 | 401036 | 0 h | 46591 | 62520 | 35360 | 13311 |
1 h | 163376 | 12829 | 645731 | 137472 | 1 h | 18525 | 4664 | 28424 | 5281 |
2 h | 186517 | -3457 | 498636 | 72388 | 2 h | 12023 | 1388 | 24460 | 4578 |
3 h | 143390 | -2472 | 322379 | 63658 | 3 h | 4963 | 809 | 10906 | 41 |
4 h | 101135 | -1733 | 279161 | 49034 | 4 h | 4219 | 452 | 10916 | 1747 |
5 h | 97797 | -1319 | -25117 | 52450 | 5 h | 2562 | 536 | 417 | 1308 |
6 h | -11772 | -797 | -15324 | 50254 | 6 h | 103 | 291 | 134 | 255 |
Fig4.