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KAIST Korea 2012 iGEM

Notebook : Protocol

Lab Protocols




1. LB agar plate

Materials

materials


Procedure

  1. Add 25g LB broth and 15g agar into 1L DDW.
  2. Autoclave
2. Genomic DNA Purification

Materials

materials


Procedure


1) Pellet Cells

  1. Add 1ml of an overnight culture to a 1.5ml microcentrifuge tube.
  2. Centrifuge at 13000 rpm for 2.5minutes to pellet the cells.
  3. Remove the supernatant.

2) Lyse Cells

  1. Add 1ml of an overnight culture to a 1.5ml microcentrifuge tube.
  2. Centrifuge at 13000 rpm for 2.5minutes to pellet the cells.
  3. Remove the supernatant.

3) Protein Precipitation

  1. Add 200ul of Protein Precipitation Solution to the RNase-treated cell lysate. Vortex vigorously at high speed for 20seconds to mix the Protein Precipitation Solution tieh the cell lysate.
  2. Incubate the sample on ice for 5minutes.
  3. Centrifuge at 13,000rpm 3minutes.
  4. Transfer the supernatant containing the DNA to a clean 1.5ml microcentrifuge tube.
  5. Note: Some supernatant may remain in the original tube containing the protein pellet. Leave this residual liquid in the tube to avoid contaminating the DNA solution with the precipitated protein.
  6. Add 600ul isopropanol.
  7. Gently mix by inversion until the thread-like strands of DNA form a visible mass.
  8. Centrifuge at 13000rpm for 2minutes.
  9. Carefully pour off the supernatant.
  10. Add 600ul of room temperature 70% ethanol and gently invert the tube 5 times to wash the DNA pellet.
  11. Centrifuge at 13000rpm for 2minutes. Carefully aspirate the ethanol.
  12. Drain the tube on clean absorbent paper and allow the pellet to air-dry for 10-14minutes.
  13. Add 50~100 μl TE buffer and rehydrate the DNA by incubating at 65℃ for 20min. Periodically mix the solution by gently tapping the tube. Alternatively, rehydrate the DNA by incubationg the solution overnight at room temperature or at 4℃.

TE buffer
3. Vector transformation

Procedure


1) Restriction enzyme digestion

Restriction enzyme digestion

  1. Incubate 2hr at 37℃.
  2. Inactivation 20min at 65℃.

2) Dephosphorylation (Only for vector)

Dephosphorylation (Only for vector)

  1. Incubate 30min at 37℃.
  2. Inactivation 5min at 70℃.

3) Ligation

Ligation

  1. Incubate 16hr at 16℃.

4) Transformation

  1. Add 20ul ligated vector into 100ul of competent cell.
  2. Incubate ice 5min.
  3. Heat shock 42℃, 1min 30sec.
  4. Ice 5min.
  5. Recovery with 700ul LB at 37℃, 1hr.
  6. Plating.
4. PCR

Procedure

PCR

Reaction Conditions

  1. 95℃ 3min
  2. 95℃ 30sec
  3. 54℃ 30sec
  4. 72℃ 1min/kbp
  5. 72℃ 10min
  6. 12℃ ∞
5. Gel extraction

Materials

  • MGTM Gel Extraction SV - Macrogen

Procedure

  1. Excise the DNA band of interest using an ethanol-cleaned razor blade.
  2. Weigh the gel slice in a microcentrifuge tube. Add 3 volumes (ul) of Buffer GB to 1 volume (mg) of gel.
  3. Incubate at 50°C until the agarose gel is completely melted (5 ~ 10 min).
  4. Transfer the mixture to a MGTM SV column. Centrifuge for 1 min. Discard the pass-through and re-insert the MGTM SV column into the Collection Tube.
  5. Add 700 ul of Buffer NW to the MGTM SV column. Centrifuge for 30 sec. Discard the pass-through. Reinsert the MGTM SV column into the Collection Tube.
  6. Centrifuge for additional 1 min to remove residual wash buffer. Transfer the MGTM SV column to a new 1.5 ml tube.
  7. Apply 30ul of Buffer EB to the center of the membrane in the MGTM SV column, let stand for 1 min, and centrifuge for 1 min.
6. PCR purification

Materials

  • AccuPrep® PCR Purification Kit - BIONEER

Procedure

  1. Add 5 volumes of PB Buffer to 1 volume of the PCR reaction.
  2. Apply the sample to the Binding column tube to bind DNA.
  3. Centrifuge for 30-60 sec to make the sample pass through the Binding column tube.
  4. Discard flow-through and place the Binding column tube in the same tube.
  5. Add 500μl of WB Buffer to the Binding column tube and centrifuge for 30-60 sec to wash.
  6. Discard flow-through and place the Binding column tube in the same tube again.
  7. Centrifuge the Binding column tube for an additional 1min for drying.
  8. Place the Binding column tube in a clean 1.5 ml tube.
  9. Add 30μl of EL Buffer to the center of the Binding column filter, and let the column stand for 1 min.
  10. Centrifuge for 1 min to elute.
7. Mini-prep (Plasmid extraction)

Materials

  • AccuPrep® plasmid mini extraction Kit – BIONEER

  • Buffer 1 - Resuspension buffer
  • Buffer 2 - Lysis buffer
  • Buffer 3 - Neutralization buffer
  • Buffer 4 - Washing buffer
  • Buffer 5 - Elution buffer

Procedure

  1. Add 250ul of Buffer 1 to the collected cells and completely resuspend by vortexing or pipetting.
  2. Add 250ul of Buffer 2 and mix by inverting the tube 3-4 times gently.
  3. Add 350ul of Buffer 3 and immediately mix by inverting the tube 3-4 times gently.
  4. Centrifugation the tube at 13000rpm, 4℃ for 10min.
  5. Transfer the cleared lysate to the DNA binding column tube and centrifuge 1min pour off the flow-through and re-assemble the DNA binding filter column with the 2mL collection tube.
  6. Add 700ul of Buffer 4 to the DNA binding column tube and centrifuge 1min. Pour off the flow-through and re-assemble the DNA binding filter column with the 2mL collection tube.
  7. Dry by additional centrifuge 1min.
  8. Transfer the DNA binding filter column to the new 1.5mL EP tube.
  9. Add 30ul of buffer 5 to the DNA binding filter column and wait 1min.
  10. Elute the plasmid DNA by centrifuge 1min.
8. Overlapping Extension PCR

Materials

materials

Procedure


1) Overlapping Template DNA Preparation

Overlapping Template DNA Preparation

    PCR amplify each DNA fragments. (Do not forget Pfu-X)

2) PCR Product purification


    PCR purify products.

3) OE PCR

OE PCR

    Note that total amount of fragments cannot exceed 22.9uL

4) First Reaction

  1. 95℃ 3min
  2. 95℃ 30sec
  3. 54℃ 30sec
  4. 72℃ 1min/kbp → Elongation time is determined by the longest DNA fragment.
  5. Repeat #2 to #4, 15 cycles.
  6. 72℃ 10min
  7. 12℃ ∞

5) Second Reaction

    Add 2uL of primers(1uL each) directly into first PCR product.
  1. 95℃ 3min
  2. 95℃ 30sec
  3. 54℃ 30sec
  4. 72℃ 1min/kbp → Elongation time is that of full ligated DNA.
  5. Repeat #2 to #4, 20 cycles.
  6. 72℃ 10min
  7. 12℃ ∞

9. Preparation of cells for protein expression check

Materials

Pro9_Mat

Procedure


1) Cell pre-culture

  1. Seed 10ul of cells to 3mL of LB (1% of appropriate antibiotics)
  2. Culture at 37℃ for 16hr

2) Induction

  1. Seed 500ul of cells to 3mL of LB (1% of appropriate antibiotics)
  2. Culture at 30℃ and 37℃ for 2hr.
  3. When the O.D. value is between 0.4 and 0.7, put the proper inducer with the volume set for each concentration.

3) Sampling

  1. 1. After proper induction time, check O.D. value
  2. 2. Gather 1010 of cells and centrifuge cells at 4℃ for 15 min.
  3. 3. Remove supernatant and resuspend cells with 1ml lysis buffer.
  4. 4. Transfer the sample to the new 1.5ml ep-tube and add 1ul lysozyme.
  5. 5. Incubate on 37℃ rotor for an hour.
  6. 6. After incubation, sonicate the cell. (Pulse on 20sec, off 40sec for 5 times, 13% amplitude)
  7. 7. Centrifuge 13,000rpm for 1min
  8. 8. Separate supernatant (soluble fraction) and pellet (insoluble fraction)

※For aerobic induction, cells were grown and induced in the clean bench. Also, for anaerobic induction, all procedures were done in anaerobic chamber.
10. SDS PAGE
We did sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis according to cold spring harbor protocol. And Here is the link that contains Cold spring harbor protocol

▶▶Click here to show 'cold spring harbor protocol'
11. Gibson Assembly
We did Gibson Assembly according to 'Gibson Assembly™ Master Mix Instruction Manual' published by New England BioLabs. Here is the link to download full version of it.

▶▶Click here to download full version of 'Gibson Assembly™ Master Mix Instruction Manual'
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