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Revision as of 16:02, 16 October 2016
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Lab work:
- Shelf organization: Acids, Proteins, Buffers, Gels, Agarose, Salts, Carbs
- Competent Cell Formation (K12)
- PrG Determination (1-4)
- Orthogonality Research
- Competent Cell Formation Cont. (K12)
- Growing K12 cells and making buffer (sterilized transformation buffer)
- Plans to grow another batch with XL1 Blue tomorrow
- Research docking software and test
- Competent cells: Beginning competent cell preparation for E. coli XL1-Blue and K-12
- Continued preparing competent cells
- Phenyl acetyl protecting group, cleaved by penicillin g acylase
- Truncated from 5 PGs to 3
- Dipeptide (maybe leu-leu), with a D aa on N-terminus
- A protease w/ cleavage activity acting on D aa is being researched for increased specificity
- AD4 returned zero errors w/ synthetase and leucine as ligand
- Still unsuccessful AG4 and AD4 returned
- Researching alternatives to direct another approach
- Unpacked Rosetta ligand modeling
- IGEM dock successful modeling; concerns about synthetase model
- Found biobrick to insert plasmid
- Anders finished half application for grant
- Continuing competent cell preparation
- Competency test
- Cbz leu, pro leu, phenyl acetyl leu, N-methoxy leu
- Corrected enzyme mistake, now using correct configuration of enzyme
- Competency test control plated at 4:50pm
- No growth on control plates
- JW cells grown in overnight liquid culture at 37°C shaking
- JW cells frozen in glycerol stock at -80°C (5 tubes)
- Prepared growth media for pr-leu uptake test
- Began pr-leu uptake test
- Test for lawn growth or individual colonies on a spread plate (for CRISPR)
- Took OD measurements for uptake test
- CRISPR plate - lawn produced
- Pr-leu uptake test failed, bacteria were fixed by ethanol overnight and could not be lysed
- Restarted test, XL1-blue innoculated in LB at 5:20pm
- Meeting with Rivanna river waste treatment plant
- Meeting with open bio labs
- Pr-leu uptake test failed again, cells did not lyse
- Started a new pr-leu uptake procedure
- Created standards for LC-MS
- Transformed XL1-blue with Bba-K1218011 CRISPR Cas9 plasmid
- Transformed XL1-blue with BBa-B0010 forward terminator plasmid
- Transformed XL1-blue with RFP control plasmid
- Growth on CRISPR, terminator, and RFP plates, no growth on controls
- Cultures of transformed bacteria prepared for glycerol storage
- Optical densities taken for second round of pr-leu uptake and enzyme tests
- Optical densities taken again for second round of pr-leu uptake and enzyme tests
- Sample taken from enzyme reaction and frozen in -20°C freezer
- Second sample taken from enzyme reaction and frozen in -20°C freezer
- Redoing growth uptake test with aerated growth conditions
- OD measurements taken for growth test
- Extracted and purified E. coli genomic DNA via a minikit
- Began PCR on genomic DNA to obtain the leuS gene DNA
- Purified the PCR product
- Ran a gel to confirm product - bands ran together
- Took OD measurements for growth test
Lab work:
- Extractions performed for enzyme test
- Redo growth uptake test again
- Growth uptake test results came out as expected - No growth on plates with pr-leu, but growth present on plates supplemented with leucine
- Enzyme test was inconclusive due to poor sensitivity of the LC/MS - Suspected due to buffer contamination
- PCR performed on LeuS gene, product was purified
- Confirmatory digest performed on LeuS PCR product
- XL1-blue cells transformed with LeuS-ampR plasmid - plated and incubated at 10:45pm
- Excessive growth on control transformation plate from 7/5 - Ligation likely did not succeed
- Inoculated precultures of LeuS and terminator transformed cells for miniprep and sequencing
- Redoing enzyme test (again) with a new protocol
- Performed a miniprep to obtain LeuS and terminator plasmids
- Sent off minipreped LeuS and terminator plasmid DNA for sequencing
- Performed confirmatory digests on LeuS and terminator plasmid DNA
- Sequencing of LeuS and terminator plasmid failed due to poor quality of DNA samples
- Performed PCR and PCR purification on E. coli genomic DNA to obtain LeuS gene
- Talked with Professor Kozminski about PCR
- Set up another PCR reaction and PCR purification to obtain LeuS gene
- Transformed XL1-blue cells with terminator plasmid
- No colonies grew on the terminator transformation plate
- Restarted enzyme efficacy test
- Transformed XL1-blue cells with RFP, T1, and T2 plasmids
- Removed and stored a sample of the enzyme test
- Observed growth on the RFP, T1, and T2 plates, no growth on control
- Started precultures with colonies from the terminator 1 and 2 plates
- Performed PCR on LeuS gene (genomic DNA)
- Performed gel electrophoresis on LeuS PCR product, obtained wrong product
- Extracted DNA from gel
- Performed minipreps
- Confirmatory digest of minipreps from 7/15
- Performed a ligation reaction for T1 and T2
- Transformed XL1-blue cells with T1, T2, and an RFP control
- Extracted digested products from agarose gel
- Plated again using transformed cells from 12am at 1:30pm
- Transformed and plated new cells at 3:30pm
- Ligation reaction performed for T1 and T2 using DNA extracted from gel
- Transformed XL1-blue cells with the 2 ligation products (T1 with PCR, T2 with PCR)
- Began a preculture of XL1-blue cas9 cells in LB+cam at 5:45pm
- Performed a restriction digest
- Cells transformed and incubated at 37°C at 9:45am
- T1, T2, RFP, and control removed and plated at 11:15am
- Started uptake and enzyme activity tests with N-methoxy-leu
- Continued performing uptake test for N-methoxy-leu
- Continued performing uptake test for N-methoxy-leu - lysed cells and stored cell lysate
- Performed minipreps and confirmatory digests - No result from digests because no EtBr was in the gel
- Redoing digests from 7/21 and running a new gel
- Received sgRNA from biobasic, prepared and stored the sgRNA at -20°C
- Digested CRISPR RNA insert and Cas9 vector
- Performed digests with BSA1 on the CRISPR vector and insert
- Performed a ligation reaction between the vector and insert
- Realized that the primers used to PCR the LeuS gene were incorrect - Therefore, our T1 and T2 biobricks did not contain the correct DNA sequences
- Continued the PrG uptake test - purification of the cell lysate
- Performed a miniprep for the T1 and T2 terminators (for biobricking)
- Transformed and plated KanR gene from kit
- Streaked pS1M27 cells from gel stab to Tet plate
- Re-transformed and plated KanR gene on CAM plates
- Re-streaked pS1M27 plate
- Miniprep performed for pS1M27
- Re-transformed KanR DNA
- Performed a PCR reaction to obtain LeuS gene from genomic DNA
- Confirmatory digest performed on PCR product (LeuS gene)
- Restriction digest for biobrick #1
- Performed ligation reactions between the LeuS gene and the T1 and T2 genes
- Performed a ligation reaction between CRISPR Cas9 genes and sgRNA sequence
- Minipreped ZeoR, KanR, T1, and T2 plasmids
- Confirmatory digests performed for T1 and T2 plasmids
- Performed a ligation reaction with T1 and T2 genes, transformed products
- PCR performed to confirm CRISPR/Cas9 and sgRNA gene ligation
- Digests performed to redo LeuS and terminator ligation
- Ligation reaction performed
- Received IDT DNA: Penicillin G Acylase pieces 1 and 2
- Sequencing of Cas9 plasmid
- Digested PCRed LeuS product
- Transformed cells with T1 LeuS lig and T2 LeuS lig
- Began preparing competent JW strain E. coli cells
- Restriction digest of pac1, pac2, kan, and zeo resistance genes
- Restriction digest of terminators followed by cipping
- Terminator digest Ex + Sip gel
- LeuS PCR purification
- Performed transformations using the following genes:
- Promoter from iGEM distribution kit
- RFP for cell competency check
- T1-LeuS ligation reaction products
- T2-LeuS ligation reaction products
- Restriction digests on pac1 and pac2
- Ligation reaction for pac1-pac2-terminator
- Miniprepped 9 terminator-LeuS ligation plasmids
- Transformed pac-terminator ligation
- Precultured promoter into pac vector
- Minipreped Pro1 and Pro2
- Performed PCR on CRISPR plasmid
- Performed a restriction digest to confirm LeuS-terminator plasmid
- Performed a PCR purification
- Performed restriction digests on terminator 1, terminator 2, LeuS from PCR, Cas9 plasmid, and on sgRNA insert
- Performed sequencing on CRISPR insert
- Miniprepped 5 pac-term
- PCR of LeuS gene
- Completed PCR purification
- Performed ligation on zeo and piece E
- Performed a transformation of zeo-E-tet
- Restriction digest of LeuS
- Redoing competent JW cells
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