Tecan Analysis

Goal

Tecan is a plate reader that is able to characterize our bacteria of interest by measuring, for example, growth rate (OD) and/or protein production (GFP). The software saves the measurements over time, thus allowing to study the kinectics of the studied phenomena. With a 96 wells plate (8x12), we can test various conditions.

Steps

The hardest part when you use a plate reader to characterize your parts is to carefully choose your controls and to anticipate your cell pre-cultures.
We tested different controls:
a positive control for growth (one for each different bacterial strain

Preparation

Medium preparation

LB medium emit a side signal. As turbidity (OD) and fluorescence of our sample are measured, M9 medium is use instead.

Composition for 50 mL of:

Once the mixture is prepared, the medium must be filtered to be sterilised using 0.22 µm filter.

Pre-culture preparation

In a 15 mL tube, add 2 mL of M9 medium and inoculate BL21 cells (expression strain) from glycerol
To inhibit the expression of sfGPF, use M9 with iron, instead of classical M9.
After one night of culture, refresh the precultures by diluting them 200 times in M9 medium (with iron and carbenicillin). After 8 hours of culture, prepare your wells plate according to the following scheme:

Technical triplicate are made to see the variation induced by the manipulator.
Biological duplicate are made to determine the natural variation of the process observed.

Cycles

AJOUTER DETAIL DES CYCLES

Analysis