Team:Paris Saclay/Notebook/July/19

Tuesday 19th July

Lab work

Biobrick characterization

Streak BL21 bacteria on LB plate

By Charlène

BL21 from glycerol stock were streaked on LB and incubated at 37°C overnight.

K1372001 pre-culture

By Naiane

One isolated colony of K1372001 from a petri dish was placed in 2mL of LB + 3µL of Chloramphenicol (20µg/mL).

The falcon tube containing the culture was incubated at 37°C overnight.

Visualization

Ligation of gBlock 1.2, 2.2, 4.1 within pUC19

By Naiane & Charlène

gBlock 1.2, 2.2, 4.1 were inserted in pUC19. Two controls were made :

  • digested pUC19 with only water
  • digested pUC19 without gBlock

Transformation of DH5α with 1.2, 2.2, 4.1

By Naiane & Charlène

HeatShock competent cells were transformed with 1.2, 2.2 and 4.1. Another control was made (cells without plasmid). Cells were plated on LB + Ampicillin + IPTG + Xgal :

  • for each gBlock, one Petri dish with 50µL of cells and another with 150µL of cells
  • for each control, 100µL of cells

They were incubated at 37°C overnight.

High fidelity PCR on bacteria transformed with pPS16_005 and pPS16_006

By Alice

Plasmids pPS16_005 and pPS16_006 containing gBlocks 3.1 and 3.2 were sent to sequencing. Sequencing revealed that clones 1 transformed with pPS16_005 and clone 4 transformed with pPS16_006 had the good insert in their plasmid. In ordered to assembled both inserts, a PCR with Q5® High-Fidelity 2X Master Mix was performed on these clones following this protocol. iPS83 and iPS126 primers were used. Annealing temperature was 72°C, and initial step was prolonged to 7 min. After amplification, 1 µL of loading dye was added to 5µL of each PCR products. Then 5 µL of this mix were put into a well of the gel. A last well contained 10µL of DNA ladder. PCR products were migrated 25min at 100V.

PCR products expected were :

Plasmids Band size (bp)
pPS16_005 964
pPS16_006 964

Get DNA Closer

Linearization of the DS_SPcasN and DS_TDcasN plasmids

By Caroline

The DS_SPcasN and DS_TDcasN plasmids were digested with Acc65I following the usual protocol in order to facilitated the PCR.

PCR amplification from DS_SPcasN and DS_TDcasN linearized plasmids and pZA21

By Caroline

The different parts needed for de getting DNA closer tool were amplify by high fidelity PCR using Q5 following usual protocol with a TM at 65°C for pZA21 and a TM at 66°C for the 5 first cycles and at 72°C for the last 25 ones for DS-SPcasN and DS_TDcasN. Specific primers were used to amplify. These primers will allow the Gibson assembly afterward : Ptet_R and Ptet_F for the plasmids, Link-TDdcas_F and Ter_TDdcas_R for DS_TDcasN, Tet-SPdcas_F and Link-SPdcas_R for DS_SPcasN.