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* Summary of the weekend with our denish guests
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* We will try to collaborate in modelling and Julia V tries to help the iGEM team from SDU-Denmark to build up the wiki.
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* Summary of StreetScience
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* Our commonday SynBioDay - StreetScience in Bielefeld was success, although it was a little chaotic in the beginning.
* Our commonday SynBioDay - StreetScience in Bielefeld was success, although it was a little chaotic in the beginning.
* Derya will evaluate our feedback poll.
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* Miriam is responsible for our safety page. She has nearly finished the texts so everyone has to review the page.
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* Next week René Röspel, member of the german parliament, will visit us for a discussion about iGEM and Synthetic Biology.
* Next week René Röspel, member of the german parliament, will visit us for a discussion about iGEM and Synthetic Biology.

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Contents

Week 18 (08/27 - 09/02/12)

weekly meeting

  • Summary of the weekend with our denish guests
  • We will try to collaborate in modelling and Julia V tries to help the iGEM team from SDU-Denmark to build up the wiki.


  • Summary of StreetScience
  • Our commonday SynBioDay - StreetScience in Bielefeld was success, although it was a little chaotic in the beginning.
  • Derya will evaluate our feedback poll.


  • Deadlines
  • Mo is responsible for our registration to the jamboree.
  • Miriam is responsible for our safety page. She has nearly finished the texts so everyone has to review the page.
  • Gabi and Robert will write the abstract.


  • Next week René Röspel, member of the german parliament, will visit us for a discussion about iGEM and Synthetic Biology.

Monday August 27th

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Digest of our new plasmid pSB1C3 with pT7 promoter (hopefully, cause we have to wait for sequencing results). Dephosphorylation of digested vector and purification over agarose gel. After that, the backbone was ligated with ecol_HIS, tthl_HIS, bpul_HIS and bhal_HIS inserts.
    • Again ligation of J231110 in pSB1C3 backbone.
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
  • Team Site Directed Mutagenesis:
    • Digestion of two tvel10-plasmids with BamHI and PstI to define direction of the insert. One is positive, one negative.
    • Made the positive tvel10-plasmid ready for sequencing.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • We exchanged the buffer of the purified ECOL from 08/14, which showed a promising band in the SDS-Page.
    • Made a flask cultivation of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863005, BBa_K863000, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 with positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (without plasmid).
      • Settings: 1 L flask without baffles, autoinduction medium, final volume: 250 mL, 60 µg/mL chloramphenicol, 37 °C, 120 rpm, durance: 12 hours, single determination
    • Cells from today's cultivation were disrupted via sonification and laccase was purified by using the HisTrap column.
    • Made precultures of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863015, BBa_K863020, BBa_K863000, BBa_K863005 or BBa_K863010. As negative control we used E. coli KRX and as positive control we used E.coli KRX with BBa_K525710.
Comparison of TVEL0 laccase stored in a refrigerator or in a freezer. Activity measurement was done by measuring oxidized ABTS via optical density 420.
  • Team Activity Tests:
    • There have been some discussions about the storage of our laccases. It was said that the freezing of laccase (once deluted) might cause increased enzymatic activity. To find out whether storing the enzymes in the refrigerator or in the freezer is a better choice we compared to different samples from TVEL0. One was stored cooled and one was frozen and then measured as usual. As shown in the figure the frozen laccases showed an increased saturation curve and also reached the saturation slower. This seems like a clear hint to better store our enzymes in the refrigerator.






Tuesday August 28th

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Ligation of pSB1C3 with promoters J23117, J23110 and J23103. The promoters (which are again primer pairs we annealed) were diluted 1:1000 (0,1 pmol) before and boiled with 98°C and slowly cooled down for ligation of the forward and the reverse primers.
    • Colony PCR of ligated products with T7 promoter and insert. The PCR showed for the tthl_HIS and for ecol a band in agarose gel on the correct height. So we picked this colonies and plated them to isolate the plasmids.
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
    • Gel-clean up of the digested pSB1C3-backbone.
    • Colony-PCR of CBDcex(T7) and CBDcex(T7)+GFP_His with four positive colonies of CBDcex(T7).
    • Plasmid-isolation of one CBDcex(T7)+GFP_His followed by restriction with no positive result.
    • Plated another CBDcex(T7)+GFP_His-colony for plasmid-isolation.
    • Plated small dots of 25 colonies of the CBDclos(T7)+GFP_His-transformation to look if they are red.
    • Plasmid isolation of <partinfo>J61101</partinfo> and digestion with SpeI and PstI
  • Team Fungal and Plant Laccases:
    • Digest of tvel35 PCR product for cloning in pSB1C3.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • The band appearing in the SDS-Page of the cultivation of the 08/14 was analysed via Maldi-Tof and we a positive result: we got our laccase!
    • We made a SDS-Page from yesterday's cultivation and got the same band for cultivation of BBa_K863005, so we reproduced our result:) It seems, that the purification and the higher temperature had the essential influence on the production.
    • Started a new flask cultivation of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863000, BBa_K863005, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 with positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (E. coli KRX without plasmid).
      • Settings: 300 mL flasks without baffles, final volume: 60 mL, autoinduction medium, 0,35 mM CuCl2, 37 °C, 120 rpm, durance: 12 hours
    • Cells from today's cultivation were disrupted via sonication and laccase was purified by using the HisTrap column. This time the column was better cleaned by using the twofold volume of 500 mM imidazol.
  • Team Substrate Analytic:
    • Dominik installed the new column into the HPLC.
    • We tryed again to mesure the three estrogens,but we recived the same result as with the old column.
    • We lowerd the oven temperature to 30 °C. With this settings we could determin the retention times 5.8 minutes for Estradiol, 4.7 minutes for Estrone and 5.2 minutes for Ethinyl estradiol.

Wednesday August 29th

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Restriction of ecol_HIS, bpul_HIS, tthl_HIS and bhal_HIS PCR products estimated for the hundredth time.
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
    • Plasmid-isolation of two plated CBDcex(T7)- and the CBDcex(T7)+GFP_His-coloniy and test-digestion of the plasmid with NotI showed fragments of the correct size.
    • Colony-PCR of CBDclos(T7)+GFP_His-colonies brought up no positive colonies.
    • To have a comparison to our His-tagged-GFP-fusion-protein we decided to use an exact copy of the His-tagged-GFP. Therefore we made primers to add the His-tag the <partinfo>I13522</partinfo>.
      • Made gradient-pcr with <partinfo>I13522</partinfo> as template and the GFP_FW and GFP_His_compl primers. the most correct product was at 62°C.
  • Team Site Directed Mutagenesis:
    • New Primers for xccl arrived.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • Made a SDS-Page of yesterday's cultivation, but it was too pale, so it had to be repeated
    • Made a SDS-Page-repeat of yesterday's cultivation.
      Figure 1: Cultivation from 08/28 of E.coli KRX with BBa_K863005, BBa_K863000, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 with positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (without plasmid). 250 mL in 1 L flasks without baffles, autoinduction medium with 60 µg/mL chloramphenicol at 37 °C for 12 hours.
    • Installation of the two 3 L fermenters used for practical courses in our lab. Had to search for all of the components with the help of members of fermentation group and test electrodes.
    • Made precultures of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863000, BBa_K863005, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 as well as of positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (E. coli KRX without plasmid).
  • Team Substrate Analytic: Marcus Persicke has detected the Estrone and Estradiol limit.

Thursday August 30th

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Ligation of the digested PCR products from the day before in BBa_J61101_pSB1A2 plasmid backbone which we transformed from distribution plate before.
    • Ligation of J23110 and J23103 (annealed primers) in pSB1C3 backbone.
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
    • Pooled the six good and the six other PCR-fractions with producd of const.GFP_His-gradient-PCR.
      • Clean-Up of the PCR-products
      • Start of Restriktion GFP-His6tag with EcoRI, PstI and DpnI in O-Buffer .
    • Colony-PCRs of GFP_His - All negativ.
  • Team Fungal and Plant Laccases:
    • Digest of tvel35 again and ligation in pSB1C3.
    • PCR of BBa_K500002 with K500002_FW and K500002_RV primers.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • Started another flask cultivation, the repetition of the cultivation on monday in a smaller scale but with a double determination. Cultivation of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863000, BBa_K863005, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 with positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (E. coli KRX without plasmid).
      • Settings: 300 mL flasks without baffles, autoinduction medium, final volume: 60 mL, 37 °C, 120 rpm, 12 hours
    • Continuing Installation of the two 3 L fermenters.
    • Starting the first fermentation of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863005
      • Settings: fermenter: Braun, autoinduction medium, final volume: 3 L, 37 °C, stirrer on cascade to hold a pO2 of 50 %, airflow: 2 NL/m, 12 hours. We had some problems with the controllation of settings.
    • Made precultures of E. coli KRX with BBa_K863000, BBa_K863005, BBa_K863010, BBa_K863015 or BBa_K863020 as well as of positive (BBa_K525710) and negative control (E. coli KRX without plasmid).
  • Team Substrate Analytic:
    • 100 µg ml-1 and 10 µg ml-1 Estradiol is to high concentrated, to integrate the peak area. Concentrations around 1 µg ml-1 seems to be ideally for our HPLC.

Friday August 31th

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Colony-PCRs of the ligations with J23100 + J61101 + ecol_HIS, bpul_HIS, tthl_HIS and bhal_HIS. Positive colonies for for ecol_HIS and tthl_HIS and bpul_HIS were plated on LB + AMP.
    • We isolated plasmids with pSB1C3 + promoter J23117 from a former ligation and transformation.
  • Team Fungal and Plant Laccases:
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
    • Ligation of const.GFP_His with a pSB1C3 and transformation of KRX with the product of the ligation.
  • Team Site Directed Mutagenesis:
    • sequencing of tvel10-plasmid showed a mutation at base 1573, altering the second last amino acid from threonine to asparagine
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • Cells of the yesterday's flask cultivation and a sample of equal size of E. coli KRX fermentation with BBa_K863005 were disrupted via sonication and ECOL was purified by using the HisTrap column. The purificated sample of the fermentation did not show any activity, so we decided not to purify the whole sample.
    • First fermentation of E. coli KRX containing BBa_K863000
      • Settings: fermenter: Infors, autoinduction medium, final volume: 3 L, 37 °C, stirrer on cascade to hold a pO2 of 50 %, airflow: 2 NL/m, 12 hours.

Saturday September 1st

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
  • Plasmid isolations on the plated colonies and control restriction with NotI. Control digest showed for J23100 + J61101+ tthl_HIS, J23100 + J61101 + ecol_HIS positive bands. So we sent these plasmids for sequencing.
  • Team Fungal and Plant Laccases: Plating two colonies from tvel35+pSB1C3 transformation on LB +CM agar.
  • Team Cellulose Binding Domain:
    • Got green colonies on const.GFP_His-dish. Picked three and plated them on CM-select-agar.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
    • Harvesting and centrifugation culture of fermentation on 08/31 (E.coli KRX containing BBa_K863000). Store pellet at 4 °C.
  • Team Substrate Analytic:
    • Dominik instructed us, that we could operate the HPLC on our own. We also learnd how to clean the HPLC vials.

Sunday September 2nd

  • Team Cloning of Bacterial Laccases:
    • Control digest of tvel35 in pSB1C3 was positive.
    • Plasmid isolation from pSB1C3 + J23110, pSB1C3 + J23103 and J23100 + J61101+ bpul_HIS. Control digest showed correct bands for J23100 + J61101+ bpul_HIS, pSB1C3 + J23103 and pSB1C3 + J23110.
  • Team Site Directed Mutagenesis:
    • Gradient-PCR of tvel10-plasmid with tvel10-t243g primer-mix.
  • Team Cultivation & Purification:
  • Team Activity Tests:
    • This week we had Team Modeling over and they told us about their concerns. To continue modeling they wanted to have a look at the activity of our laccase from T. versicolor but with different ABTS concentrations. Especially the were interested in the first time points after adding ABTS. This should give them enough information to calculate the enzyme activity. We didn't want to wait, so we started immediately with our standard activity test. Our tested ABTS concentrations were: 0.5µl, 1µl, 2µl, 4µl and 8µl. We got nice activity curves but also noticed, that the activity saturated quickly and therefore the initial activity of our laccase can not be measured accurately. Of course Team Modeling got our data just in time, but we also want to start new activity tests with half of the amount of laccase. So we are still trying to keep our lovely Team Modeling satisfied.
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