Team:BYU Provo/Notebook/SmallPhage/Summerexp/8.14 Mutagen Concentration Test - Seventh Protocol

Overview

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• A decrease in phage viability with increasing mutagen concentration.

• A few random mutations that produce smaller and larger phage that can be isolated.

III) Reagents Used

• 5-bromodeoxyuridine stock in freezer labeled T7 (10mg/mL)

• Uracil solution (2.5mg/mL)

• Adenine solution (5mg/mL)

• 7.19 phage stock

• x2 top agar

• LB

IV) Procedure

1) Overnight (The day before) (8.13)

• Add 5mL of LB into a test tube and add 1 colony of E. Coli BL21 into the tube using a wooden stick.

2) Applying the mutagen (7.29)

• Label 3 test tubes 0, 200, 500. Add 9.8mL of LB and 40ul of adenine solution into each test tube. Then add 200ul of BL21 overnight into each test tube. Incubate on the shaker at 37 Celsius.

• Remove all the test tubes off the shaker after 2 hours. Add 40ul of adenine and 80ul of uracil to each test tube. Also add the corresponding amount in ul of 5-bromodeoxyuridine, a mutagen, to each test tube. (Ex: Add 200ul of mutagen to tube labeled 200)

• Place all the tubes on the shaker at 37 Celsius.

• After 20 minutes, take only the tube labeled 0 from the shaker. Take 1mL from this tube and pipette it into a cuvette labeled 0. Using 1mL of LB in a cuvette, blank the spectrophotometer at 600 OD. Then measure the absorbance of the cuvette labeled 0.

• Remove the other two tubes after 30 minutes of incubation and add 87ul of T7 phage from the "10ul 7.19 stock" to each tube. (There should be a 1:10 phage to bacteria concentration. The calculations are as follows: The spectrophotometer reading was 0.435, which indicates there are 2.175E8 bacteria/ml. Because there are 10ml in each tube, there is roughly 2.175E9 bacteria per tube. This means that we need 2.175E8 phage added to each tube. Because the 7.19 stock is concentrated at 2.5E9 phage/ml [5E7 phage/20ul], 87ul of phage will provide 2.175E8 phage.)

• Incubate all the tubes on the shaker at 37 Celsius for 80 minutes.

• Remove all the tubes and add 1mL of chloroform to each. Gently shake each tube and centrifuge it at 4000rpm for 10 minutes at 7 Celsius. Remove the supernatant from each tube with a pipette and place it in a new tube with the same label. Be careful not to get the chloroform or bacteria when you remove the supernatant.

• Store the supernatants at 4 Celsius.

3) Spot test to determine phage concentration

V) Results

2) Applying the mutagen

• The OD reading was 0.435, which indicates there are 2.175E8 bacteria/ml. Because there are 10ml in each tube, there is roughly 2.175E9 bacteria per tube.

VI) Conclusion