Team:ETH Zurich/Materials

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*Re-suspend pellet in 15ml of ice cold buffer 1<br>  
*Re-suspend pellet in 15ml of ice cold buffer 1<br>  
*keep on ice for 12 minutes <br>
*keep on ice for 12 minutes <br>
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*Spin at 4000rpm , 4&#8451;for 5 minutes<br>
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*Spin at 4000rpm , 4&#8451; for 5 minutes<br>
*Carefully resuspend the pellet in 2mL ice cold buffer 2<br>
*Carefully resuspend the pellet in 2mL ice cold buffer 2<br>
*Aliquot 10*100&mu;l per 50ml culture in 1.5ml tubes and freeze with liquid nitrogen<br><br>
*Aliquot 10*100&mu;l per 50ml culture in 1.5ml tubes and freeze with liquid nitrogen<br><br>
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The method of double layer agar experiment was adapted from bacteriphage plaque experiments used for phage transduction.<br>
The method of double layer agar experiment was adapted from bacteriphage plaque experiments used for phage transduction.<br>
*Pour 1.5% LB-agar (bottom layer) on a petridish. Allow to cool and solidify.<br>
*Pour 1.5% LB-agar (bottom layer) on a petridish. Allow to cool and solidify.<br>
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*Add 100ul of liquid culture of receiver cells into 3ml of 0.7% agar (40&#8451;).<br>
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*Add 100&mu;l of liquid culture of receiver cells into 3ml of 0.7% agar (40&#8451;).<br>
*The receiver cultures were grown to OD600 of 0.4 and then dilute into 2mL of 0.7% Agar<br>
*The receiver cultures were grown to OD600 of 0.4 and then dilute into 2mL of 0.7% Agar<br>
*Allow the top layer to cool down and solidify. <br>
*Allow the top layer to cool down and solidify. <br>
*1.5ul of the sender cells were then pipetted on to the two layer agar plates.<br>
*1.5ul of the sender cells were then pipetted on to the two layer agar plates.<br>
*Incubate the plates at 37&#8451;.</p>
*Incubate the plates at 37&#8451;.</p>

Revision as of 19:37, 3 October 2013

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Preparation of stock solutions

Making LB media

  • Dissolve 12.5g of LuriaBroth in 500ml MilliQ H2O and autoclave

Making LB-Agar

  • Dissolve 12.5g LuriaBroth in 500mL MIlliQ H2O,add 7.5g agar.

Before use: Heat it in the microwave and let it cool down to 50℃ before adding Antibiotics.

Antibiotics stock solutions

Ampicillin (amp): 100mg/ml (1000X)

  • Dissolve 1g Ampicillin in 10ml sterile H2O.
  • Aliquot and store at -20 ℃.

Kanamycin (Kan): 50mg/ml (1000X)

  • Dissolve 0.5g Kanamycin in 10ml sterile H2O.
  • Aliquot and store at -20 ℃.

Chloramphenicol(cam): 34mg/ml (1000X)

  • Dissolve 0.34g Chloramphenicol in 10ml sterile H2O.
  • Aliquot and store at -20℃.

All stock solutions have to be diluted 1:1000 times when used for cultures/Plates

Glycerol 20%

  • Mix 20ml of Glycerol 100% and 80ml of MilliQ H2O, autoclave

Rubidium buffer 1 and 2


  1. Buffer 1
    • KOAc 30nM
    • CaCl2 10mM
    • Glycerol 15%
    • Adjust pH to 5.8 with Acetic acid
    • RbCl2 100nM
    • MnCl2 50nM
    • Adjust pH to 5.9 with KOH
    • Mix all components, sterile filter and store at 4℃

  2. Buffer 2
    • MOPS 10mM
    • RbCl2 10mM
    • CaCl2 75mM
    • Glycerol 15%
    • Mix all components and store at 4℃

Note that these are order sensitive, i.e. you have to add KOAc before CaCl2.

Rubidium competent cells


  • Inoculate 100ml pre-warmed CVM with 2mL of the overnight culture and incubate under shaking (250 rpm) until OD600 : 0.48
  • Put the culture on ice for 15 minutes and divide it in 2*50 ml falcon tubes
  • Spin at 4000rpm ,4℃ for 5 minutes
  • Discard supernatant
  • Re-suspend pellet in 15ml of ice cold buffer 1
  • keep on ice for 12 minutes
  • Spin at 4000rpm , 4℃ for 5 minutes
  • Carefully resuspend the pellet in 2mL ice cold buffer 2
  • Aliquot 10*100μl per 50ml culture in 1.5ml tubes and freeze with liquid nitrogen

General cloning procedure

Minipreps

  • Sigma Aldrich Miniprep kit : Elute in 50μl for higher plasmid concentrations.

Restriction enzyme digest

Figure 1. iGEM suffix insertion
Figure 2. iGEM 3A Assembly



50μL reaction Volume:
2ug of plasmid (max 45μL for low concentration minipreps)
5μL NEB buffer (which buffer for which enzzyme can be looked up on the NEB website)
add ddH2O up to 50μL
0.5/1μL of restriction enzyme (20000U/mL/10000U/mL)
Keep enzymes always on cooling block and don't take them out for too long.
Mix through pipetting

1h at 37℃
Heat inactivation : 20min at 65℃(not always necessary)

Dephosphorylation of backbones only (reduces plasmid slef ligation)
Add 1μL of Calf-intestine-phosphatase)
1h at 37℃
20 minutes heatinactivation at 65℃.

Add 10μL of loading buffer (6X)
Analysis on gel


Ligation

100ng of backbone and corresponding amount of insert depending on size
Always do a negative control without insert
Add up to 10/15μL with ddH2O
1.1/1.65μL T4 ligation buffer
1μL Ligase
1h at room temperature
20 min at 65℃

Gel extraction

Sigma Aldricht Gel extraction kit

Transformation

Thaw competent cells on ice for 10 minutes
5μL of ligation product or 1μL of resuspended plasmid/miniprep in 50μL competent cells
30min on ice
1 min heat shock at 42℃
3 minutes on ice
add 900μL LB
1h shaking at 37℃s
Centrifuge at 12000rcf
remove 750μL supernatant
resuspend the pellet in the remaining 200μL LB
Plate on pre warmed plates

Sequencing

1200ng of DNA
3μL; sequencing primer (10μL)
send out for sequencing using Microsynth account
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PCR (for gene amplification or colony PCR)

PCR was used for gene amplification for cloning and for colony PCR for the clone sleection. For colony PCR TAg Polymerase was used whereas for the gene amplification due too higher needs in accuracy Phusion Polymerase was used. FOr gene Amplification PCR the reaction volume is 50μL and for colony PCR 20uμ. 1-20ng of the template plasmids were used for the amplification. For the coplony PCR in some cases NEB QuickLoad 2X Taq master mix was used.

Equipment Gene Amplification PCR (50μL reaction volume) Colony PCR (20μL reaction volume
Volume μL Volume μL Volume μL
PCR Buffer 5X/10X 10 2 -
dNTP 10uM 1 0.5 -
Rev and fwd primer 10uM 1 0.75 0.75
Polymerase 2U/μL 0.5 0.5 -
Template DNA + H2O 36.5 15.5 10
QuickLoad 2X Taq - - 10


Experimental procedure

Double layer agar plate experiment

The method of double layer agar experiment was adapted from bacteriphage plaque experiments used for phage transduction.

  • Pour 1.5% LB-agar (bottom layer) on a petridish. Allow to cool and solidify.
  • Add 100μl of liquid culture of receiver cells into 3ml of 0.7% agar (40℃).
  • The receiver cultures were grown to OD600 of 0.4 and then dilute into 2mL of 0.7% Agar
  • Allow the top layer to cool down and solidify.
  • 1.5ul of the sender cells were then pipetted on to the two layer agar plates.
  • Incubate the plates at 37℃.