June

Milestones

• Starting labwork on the sub-project Porins.
• Successful PCR on OprF gene from Pseudomonas fluorescens. OprF with Pre- and Suffix overlaps could be amplified from genome.
• Planning of our Human Practice projects started and the first participations are fixed.

Week 5

Organization

• iGEM-Team Bielefeld will support the ‘CeBiTec Student Academy’ from 26.-30. August with an own experiment.

MFC

Mediators

Porines

• Primerdesign for isolation of OprF from Pseudomonas fluorescens strain, with overlaps for Biobrick Prefix and Suffix:
• Forward Primer OprF (49 bp): GAATTCGCGGCCGCTTCTAGATGAAACTGAAAAACACCTTGGGCTTTGC
• Reverse Primer OprF (51 bp): CTGCAGCGGCCGCTACTAGTATTACTTAGCTTGGGCTTCAACCTGCGCTTC

Week 6

Organization

• Thanks to NEB Biolabs for the free iGEM kit with many useful laboratory things for all German iGEM teams.
• We are working on our first press release.
• Having a short radio contribution in the Bielefeld university campus radio (radio 87.9 hertz).

MFC

Mediators

• Glycerol dehydrogenase
  • Isolation of shipping vector pSB1C3 out of 2013 Distribution Kit Plate 5 Well 3A with insert Part RFP (<bbpart>J04450</bbpart>) for better transformation characterization (Distribution Kit BioBrick isolation).
  • Transformation of <partinfo>BBa_J04450</partinfo> into Escherichia coli KRX strain.
  • Plasmid isolation of <partinfo>BBa_J04450</partinfo>.

Week 7

MFC

Mediators

Cytochromes

• Cultivation of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in liquid LB medium at 30 °C

• Isolation of genomic DNA from S. oneidensis and dilution to the subsequently used PCR template:
  • 4-2006-453: 5.5ng/µl

• Amplification of the mtrCAB cluster with Phusion polymerase
  • Annealing: Gradient [55.8 - 56.7 - 57.8 - 59.1 - 60.4 - 61.7 - 62.9 - 63.9]
  • Elongation: 1:15min
  • Notes: Clear Bands at the expected 5.2kb, the annealing temperature seems not to have an effect.

• PCR-CleanUp
  • Lane2: 4-2106-451: 7.4 ng/µl
  • Lane5: 4-2106-451: 8.5 ng/µl

Porines

• Starting first cultivation of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain for complete genome isolation.
• Successful genome isolation of Pseudomonas fluorescens.
• Successful PCR with Forward and Reverse Primer OprF on the OprF gene of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain.

Table 1: Standard Phusion PCR Master Mix.

Table 2: Two step standard Phusion PCR programm for GldA amplification.

• OprF PCR product was isolated by Agarose gel electrophorese and purificated.
• Bands are at expected size of 1300 bp.

Figure 1: Agarosegel from PCR on the OprF gene of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain with forward and reverse primer OprF. For Ladder we used GeneRuler™ 1 kb DNA Ladder fromThermo Scientific.

Week 8

Organization

• Let’s go to Lyon, flights are booked for the European jamboree in Lyon from 11.-13. October 2013.
• We will participate at ‘BioNRW pHD Student Convention’ in Düsseldorf at 13. July.

MFC

Mediators

• Glycerol dehydrogenase
  • Cloning of GldA into pSB1C3 shipping vector with NEB Biobrick assembly Kit did not work as expected.
  • Screening of colonies with colony PCR and Plasmid restriction analysis shows religated pSB1C3 shipping vector.
  • Bands are at size of 2000 bp, the length of linear pSB1C3.

Figure 2: Agarosegel with NEB 1 kb DNA Ladder as marker. Bands are showing restriction analysis from cloning of GldA into pSB1C3 shipping vector with NEB Biobrick assembly Kit. Assembly did not work, only one band at the size of 2000 bp showing religated pSB1C3.

• • Primerdesign for pSB1C3 according an universal usable backbone for Gibson Assembly with Prefix and Suffix specific overlaps:
    • Forward Primer pSB1C3 (23 bp): TACTAGTAGCGGCCGCTGCAGTC
    • Reverse Primer pSB1C3 (23 bp): CTCTAGAAGCGGCCGCGAATTCC

Porines

• Cloning of OprF into pSB1C3 shipping vector with NEB Biobrick assembly Kit did not work as expected.
• Screening of colonies with colony PCR and Plasmid restriction analysis shows religated pSB1C3 shipping vector as described for GldA cloning.