Team:Paris Saclay/Notebook/June/29

Wednesday 29th June

Lab work

Visualization

Culture of clones with gBlocks

By Lea and Marion

6 clones of each construction were selected and grown overnight in 3.5mL of LB (50µg/ml Amp) at 37°C, 180rpm.


BioBrick characterization

BL21 electro-competent cells preparation

By Charlene

200µL of BL21 pre-culture was added to 15mL of LB and incubated for 4h at 37°C. When abs600nm=0.68, cells were centrifuged for 10 minutes at 4000rpm and washed twice with addition of 10mL glycerol (10%) followed by 10 minutes of centrifugation at 4000rpm. Cells were mixed with 200µL glycerol and kept -80°C.

BL21 electro-competent cells transformation

By Charlene

We realized four transformations with the following plasmids:

  • K1372001
  • K1372001+pcl_TAA
  • K1372001+pcl_TAG
  • K1372001+pcl_Tq

50µL of cells were added in the cuvettes with 1µL DNA (diluted 1/10). Everything was done at 4°C.

Transformation did not work for K1372001 and K1372001+pcl_TAA because the cuvettes were broken. Template:Font color. Cells died during transformation. Transformation worked for K1372001+pcl_TAG and K1372001+pcl_Tq. Template:Font color. We added 1mL of LB to the cells and incubated them for 1h at 37°C.

The following cells were plated on Petri dishes (30µg/mL Cm + 50µg/mL streptomycin):

  • BL21|K1372001+pcl_TAG : 50µL of transformed cells
  • BL21|K1372001+pcl_TAG : 500µL of transformed cells concentrated 5x.
  • BL21|K1372001+pcl_Tq : 50µL cells
  • BL21|K1372001+pcl Tq : 500µL of transformed cells concentrated 5x.


K1372001 plasmid digestion

By Naiane

K1372001 plasmid was digested with BglI using the following quantities: 3 µL DNA, 2µL buffer (O), 1 µL enzyme (BglI), 14µL water. The mix was incubated for 1h at 37°C and 10 min at 55°C and kept at -20°C until the gel electrophoresis was done. Fragments are expected to size 1.2kb and 2.4kb.


Bringing DNA closer

Plasmids digestion

By Naiane Plasmids received from Addgene were digested with AvrII using the following quantities: 5 µL DNA, 2µL buffer (Tango), 1 µL enzyme (AvrII), 12µL water. The mix was incubated for 1h at 37°C and 10 min at 55°C and kept at -20°C until the gel electrophoresis was done. Fragments are expected to be as follow:

Plasmid name Plasmid size (kb) Digestion product size (kb)
DS-NMcas 6 2.2 and 3.7
DS-SPcasN- 6.8 2.2 and 4.5
DS-ST1casN- 6 2.2 and 3.8
DS-TDcasN- 6.9 2.2 and 4.6