Team:BYU Provo/Notebook/SmallPhage/Springexp/Period3/Exp/6.27 Mutagen Concentration Test - Third Protocol

Overview

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To test the third protocol for applying 5-bromodeoxyuridine and inducing mutation.

II) Expected Outcome

- A decrease in phage viability with increasing mutagen concentration.

- A few random mutations that produces smaller phage and consequently larger plaques during selection with x8 agar.

III) Reagents Used

5-bromodeoxyuridine stock in freezer labeled T7 (10mg/mL); 50mL of M9+ prepared by the large phage group; BL21 overnight; 5.3 phage stock; x8 top agar; uracil solution (2.5mg/mL); adenine solution (5mg/mL).

IV) Procedure

1) Applying the mutagen (6.12)

- From 5.13 Determining E coli concentration with spectrophotometer, we know that the concentration of E coli BL21 in a liquid overnight culture is about 3.12E8 cell/mL. But we need to resuspend it in M9+ medium.

- To make the M9+ suspension medium supplemented with the appropriate amount of uracil and adenine, 200uL of adenine solution and 400uL of uracil was add 50mL of M9+.

- Label 5 centrifuge tubes (15mL) 0, 100, 200, 500, and C (control). To each of these test tubes, add 10 mL of E coli overnight. Cells were then pelleted via centrifuge at 4000rpm for 10min at 7 Celsius. Supernatant was taken out using pipets and discarded. E coli was then resuspended in 10mL M9+ supplemented with uracil and adenine.

- To four centrifuge tubes, add 0, 100, 200, and 500 uL of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (add nothing to C). The volume of the mutagen should correspond to the label on the test tube. Because 5-bromodeoxyuridine stock is a 10mg/mL aqueous solution, the final mutagen concentration in the five test tubes will be 0, 100, 200, and 500 ug/mL.

- Let the bacterial suspension incubate with mutagen for approximately 1h 30min.

- 30uL of 5.3 phage stock was added to each centrifuge tube (add nothing to C). From 5.15 Titer Test on 5.3 T7 new Phage Stock, we know that 5.3 phage stock has 7E8 particles/20uL. Thus, to each of the test tubes, we are adding approximately 1.2E9 particles.

- Incubate phage on shaker at 37C until clearage: 22hours.

- Liquid culture from the four test (excluding C) tubes is then centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes to pellet cell debris. Supernatant containing phage particles is removed and 1mL of chloroform is added to destroy any remaining E coli cells.

- The stock solutions are now stored in 4 Celsius.

2) Titer to determine phage concentration (6.28)

- For each mutagenesis, specifically 0, 100, 200, and 500ug/mL, 1:100 dilution series were performed to generate 0, -2, -4, -6, and -8 dilutions.

- For each dilution, a test tube was assigned to it. To each test tube, 0.75mL of BL21 liquid culture overnight was added and then transfected with 30uL of phage dilution. After 20 minutes of incubation, 7mL of x8 agar was added to each test tube and the content was then plated

V) Results

1) Applying the mutagen

- No clearage was seen after 22 hours. Following steps were carried regardless.

2) Titer to determine phage concentration

VI) Conclusion