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Contents 1 July 1.1 7/1/13 1.2 7/3/13 1.3 7/5/13 1.4 7/10/13 1.5 7/12/13 1.6 7/15/13 2 August 2.1 8/2/13 2.2 8/5/13 2.3 8/7/13 2.4 8/9/13 2.5 8/12/13 2.6 8/14/13 2.7 8/16/13 2.8 8/19/13 2.9 8/21/13 2.10 8/23/13 2.11 8/26/13 2.12 8/28/13 2.13 8/30/13 3 September 3.1 9/2/13 3.2 9/4/13 3.3 9/6/13 3.4 9/9/13 3.5 9/11/13 3.6 9/13/13 3.7 9/16/13 3.8 9/18/13 3.9 9/20/13 3.10 9/23/13 3.11 9/25/13 3.12 9/27/13 3.13 9/30/13

July

7/1/13

7/3/13

7/5/13

Bryan did extra research into the best protocol to get the results that we are hoping for. He found a paper entitled, "Genetic Control of Capsid Length in Bacteriophage T4" By:A. H. DOERMANN, F. A. EISERLING, AND LINDE BOEHNER

===7/8/13===T7 Today we need to address some problems we ran into and make some plans for the future.

1. Plaque sizes aren't consistent, even though we are using the same agarose each time.
2. We haven't been able to observe plaque phenotypes staying the same through multiple generations
3. We have tried multiple liquid cultures and rounds of mutagenesis but we haven't been able to observe clearage in a flask yet.

Good things to model--
- Change in plaque size vs. agarose concentration
- Mutant vs wild type phage under UV - graph survival rates

7/10/13

Today we are trying out a different but similar protocol. We are hoping to see clearage in our overnight cultures which we haven't seen so far. This new protocol describes that the phage will super infect the bacteria this would explain why our phage wasn't clearing the flask. The paper states,

"After one round of infection and lysis,all remaining cells become infected. Some of these

lyse on schedule, liberating phage which superinfect the majority of cells which are still unlysed. This

superinfection causes inhibition of lysis (9). Starting at 150 min, samples (5 ml) are removed periodically

and shaken with chloroform to test for the degree of lysis which can be induced. When that test shows that

most of the cells can be induced to lyse so that clearing is nearly complete (usually at about 180 min

after initial infection),the culture is chilled in an ice bath and the pregnant bacteria are pelleted by

centrifugation at about 5,000 rpm for 10 min in a cold centrifuge."

So today we added 100ul of adenine and 200ul uricil to 25ml flasks of e.coli B in LB and in M9+ minimal media along with 500 ul mutagen 5-bromo 2-deoxyuridine and 500 ul T4 phage and put that in the shaker to determine if the flask will clear in about three hours.

After 150 minutes, we removed 5 mL of bacterial culture and placed it in a 15 mL tube with 1 mL of chloroform. The LB culture cleared very quickly, while the M9 culture did not clear very well. At 180 minutes, the LB cleared even better and the M9 cleared slightly better. Due to time constraints, we decided to harvest the pregnant bacteria at 180 minutes. We pelleted the bacteria in a centrifuge at 3500 rpm for 10 minutes and resuspended each pellet in 2 mL of broth. We transferred it to a 15 mL tube and added 10 uL of nuclease mix, 5 uL of 1 M MgCl2, and 2 mL of chloroform. We mixed it gently and let it incubate for 30 minutes. Then, we centrifuged it at 2700 rpm for 10 minutes. The supernatant was removed and transferred to a new 15 mL tube.

7/12/13

Today we did a titer on: LB and M9+ Supernatant LB and M9+ Lysis inhibited pellet Re-titer of Mutagenesis 3 and 4

7/15/13

August

8/2/13

8/5/13

8/7/13

8/9/13

8/12/13

8/14/13

8/16/13

8/19/13

8/21/13

8/23/13

8/26/13

8/28/13

8/30/13

September

9/2/13

9/4/13

9/6/13

9/9/13

9/11/13

9/13/13

9/16/13

9/18/13

9/20/13

9/23/13

9/25/13

9/27/13

9/30/13