Team:Macquarie Australia/Protocols/Electroporation
From 2013.igem.org
Electroporation
(Keep materials on ice!)
1)Pipette 1µL diluted (1:3) Gibson product into fresh eppendorf tube
2)Add 50µL competent cells (stir very gently to avoid shear)
3)Dry electric cuvette
4) Pipette 50 µL competent cells to electric cuvette
5)Pulse cuvette
Settings: presets/bacteria/e-coli/1mm/1800V/25uf/200Ώ)
Quickly add 500µL LB broth (warmed in hot water bath) to cuvette
Mix by gently pipetting up and down
Working quickly, transfer contents to fresh tube
Incubate in warm room under agitation one hour