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==June 8==
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Tried to make more EPI300 cells, though no obvious growth even after hours for the second time, and decided to leave it over night to see if there are any changes.
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However, the plate reader was later found to be broken. The plate was placed in the 4° cold room until such time that the experiment could be done.
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The wells were plated by GFP first, then RFP, the YFP. There was a slight accident that involved losing some of the YFP culture, but enough was recovered to fill the plates. It is likely that the GFP cultures spent over 30 minutes in the plate before the YFP was added, so some readings may not accurately reflect the ratios shown above. 
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Miniprepped biobricks 12O, 5P, 17F, 13M, 14N, 14E using the QIAGEN Spin Miniprep Kit provided by the Hallam lab. We had planned to miniprep 7B also, but a slight accident caused there to be less than 1.5 mL in the microcentrifuge tube. It will be done sometime later, after regrowing a culture
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Bought $1 of 91 octane (no ethanol) gas from the Shell on 10th. It's in a red jerrycan in the flammables cabinet near our bench.
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[[User:JohnHenry|JohnHenry]] 14:31, 9 June 2012 (CDT)
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Experiment plan for week of June 10-16th:
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The Amp plates made the day before worked.  However, the Kan plates (negative control, EPI300 pIJ790, and DH5a pIJ790) showed unexpected results.  The negative control, which only had untransformed K12 cells plated, had more colonies growing than those from the plates with resistance-transformed EPI300 pIJ790 and DH5a pIJ790.  Even then, there were only a few small colonies on the EPI300 pIJ790 plate and none at all on the DH5a pIJ790 plate.  It looks like the Kan plates may not be working, and it is possible that the EPI300 and DH5a cells with the pIJ790 plasmid are not competent.
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==June 17==
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As shown above in the gel image, some PCRs need to be repeated. It appears apparent that increased concentrations of DMSO and magnesium chloride help the reaction, so the appropriate amount of each was added to the mastermix. The reactions were as follows: TrpB with Kan cassette, TrpA, TrpB, ArgC, and MetA.
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Since we were planning to put these into biobricks, it was imperative that we made sure that there were no restriction sites. To do this, we used the NCBI data for the gene sequence and ran it through Nebcutter, searching for all illegal sites. No illegal sites were found in TrpB, TyrA, TrpA, ArgC, or MetA.
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As shown above, a reaction for the tyrA gene worked. Using this PCR product and the rfp plasmid, we digested with EcoRI and PstI and ligated with T4 DNA ligase. The resultant product was used to transform Epi300 cells. Tomorrow, we will check for white colonies among the red ones, which would suggest that the ligation was successful.
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1) Made tetracycline plates using LB agar and Hallam lab tetracycline, diluted 400 uL in 400 mL. Previous kan and amp plates were shown to not have LB in them, and were also discovered not to support growth. However, a working kan plate was gifted by Cameron and used for a knockout experiment.
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2) A gel from yesterday's PCR was shown to have some products that worked, while others did not. The MetA, TrpA, TrpB, and ArgE biobrick PCR's worked fine, but the ArgE-Kan cassette and the ArgC biobrick PCRs did not, and were not repeated today.
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3) The biobrick PCRs that did work were digested with EcoRI and PstI, as was the psb1C3 linearized plasmid backbone.
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4) The biobrick ligation products were used to transform K12 cells and were plated appropriately. The successful amino acid-antibiotic cassettes were also transformed into EPI300, DH5a, and BL21 cells with the appropriate recombineering plasmid, and plated. To date, all the tet resistance strains have been plated, as well as Mehul's Amp resistant strain.
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As an update, here is a table showing what has been done so far.
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Worked with Jacob on steps 3 and 4 listed above. I made the gel, practised loading samples into wells (with Ruichen), and learned that the machine used to see the results is finnicky. Unfortunately, the 1 kb reference ladder did not work (unexpectedly and for unknown reasons).
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(Step 3) Transformation and plating of the biobrick PCR products were the last things we did today. Of the 5, only TrpB sparked during electroporation. 1 uL of PCR product was used to transform cells.
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(Step 4) Of the successful amino acid/antibiotic cassettes, Jacob and I transformed genes "4", "7", "12" (Tet resistant) and "M3" (Amp resistant)- names of the genes to follow - into EPI300, DH5a, and BL21 all with the recombineering plasmid pIJ790. The ones that sparked during electroporation are: 4 (EPI300), 4 (DH5a), 7 (BL21), and M3 (BL21). Quite a mix, but the addition of DMSO and MgCl<sub>2</sub> to boost PCR efficiency increased the salt concentration of the solution and may have caused sparking. Gene 4 had both compounds added and 7 had DMSO (unsure about M3 - that was Mehul). Only 1 uL of PCR product was used to transform cells to reduce chances of sparking, which may have helped.
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Designed primers for constitutively expressed GFP, RFP, and YFP to be put in the PCC1FOS vector. An EcoRI site was added just before the start of the promoter, and a BamHI site was added to the 5' end of the reverse complement. The melting temperature was normalized to about 59°C, and the primers were checked for any secondary structure.
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Tried an altered ligation protocol for the biobricks. Also ordered a variety of kill switches from the registry, along with a Pseudomonas Rhamnosyltransferase. Repeated PCR on things that had previously failed, and got the final amino acid biobrick PCR product and Ruichen's knockout resistance construct.
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The culture has been proven to be transformed successfully with the 3I plasmid! They grew colonies on the Chlor plate and not the Kan plate.
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All amino acids have been PCR'd out of the genome, all the resistance cassettes are ready for the knockouts, and several colonies appeared on the ArgE plate. One colony was selected and grown in culture. The rest of the biobrick ligations were redone and allowed to ligate overnight.
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The digests of the products were done with EcoRI and PstI in buffer 3, as opposed to the EcoRI-HF and PstI in buffer 2 we did previously. This was done because PstI has 100% activity in buffer 3, as opposed to 75% activity in buffer 2.
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The IGTS8 and IGTS9 cell cultures in both terrific broth and LB grew dense and cloudy at 30C.  Glycerol stocks will be made out of these.
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We have been having issues with having no colonies grow on plates with cells transformed with PCR products ligated into vectors.  One possible cause is the transformation itself.  All of Joe's transformation resulted in a spark.  He had added 5 uL ligated to competent cells.  The high salt concentration may have heavily influenced the sparking.  So, I redid some of the transformations in a smaller volume of ligate.  I transformed Joe's ligated 3:3 dszB, 3:3 dszC, and 3:1 dszB plasmids into EPI300 cells.  Added 0.5 uL ligate to 40 uL competent cells and electroporated them.  The 3:1 dszB cells sparked during electroporation.  The cells were left to recover undisturbed at 37C for an hour before plating 50 uL transformants onto Chlor plates.
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We had trouble getting the cells transformed with the ligated amino acid pathway genes to grow when plated.  We're unsure if the problem lies in the digest, the ligation, or the transformation.  Thus, we decided to redo all these steps.
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Re-digested the "M," "TA," "TB," "TyrA," and "ArgC" PCR products provided by Jacob.  Made a master mix of 5 uL NEB buffer 2, 0.5 uL BSA, 0.5 uL EcoRI HF, 0.5 uL PstI, and 18.5 uL dH2O.  Incubated each of the mixtures of 4 uL master mix plus 4 uL PCR product in a Thermocycler for ____.
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Re-ligated digest of "M," "TA," "TB," "TyrA," and "ArgC."  We suspect that it may be the ligase we used that was at fault for the undesired results seen in previous experiments.  So, we decided to add in more ligase and add in ligase from 2 different sources/tubes.  We added 1 uL pSBIC3 EP, 4.0 uL dH2O, 1 uL T4 ligase buffer, and 0.5 uL from each tube of T4 ligase were added to 3 uL of the respective digest products.  A control was also set up so that there was only plasmid DNA added.  The ligate mixtures were placed in the Thermocycler to incubate at 16C for 30 minutes and inactive at 65C for 20 minutes.
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John miniprepped MetA and ArgE, which are being prepared as potential biobricks.
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A new set of PCR reactions was set up for MetA (miniprepped potential biobrick), TyrA (colony PCR), ArgE (miniprepped potential biobrick), and yddG (colony PCR). Made a ligation master mix by combining 60 uL Phusion 5X buffer, 147 uL dH2O, 15 uL DMSO, 12 uL MgCl2, and 18 uL 10 mM dNTP.
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It was found that the cells depleted the nutrient quickly at low Tyr concentration, and for future experiments it is suggested to use lower initial cell concentrations to extend the time of its exponential growth phase. Also, the wild type has almost the exact growth rate as the autotroph when the the Try concentration is exceptionally high (0.01 M).
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'''Traveling to Edmonton for aGEM!! '''
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'''Team Dinner -at Vancouver International Airport(YVR)'''
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'''Sept 8 & Sept 9'''
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To obtain a control for our project which distributes the DszABC operon amongst three different auxotrophs, we needed to show the rate of desulfurization (removal of dibenzothiophene) when the entire DszABC pathway is transformed into a single host. To perform this experiment, we grew a culture of E.coli containing the optimized plasmid for the DszABC pathway cloned from Rhodococcus erythropolis IGTS8. This construct was obtained from Dr.Keasling and was the source for our DszC biobrick.
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An overnight culture for this E.coli cloned with the DszABC operon was grown overnight in 5mL culture of LB. We inoculated the overnight culture in 200mL culture of LB in a 500mL flask so that we have a starting O.D600 is 0.05. Prior to inoculation, dibenzothiophene (DBT) was dissolved in DMSO at a concentration 100ppm. This was added to the 200mL culture such that it contains 2% DMSO. For a control, we inoculated an E.coli K12 strain without the plasmid, which should not contain the necessary enzyme of biodesulfurization.  
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Next, we incubated both cultures at 37°C shaking at 200 rpm. To obtain a representation of DBT removal over time, we extracted 25mL of each culture at O.D 600 of 0.3, 0.7, and 1.0 intervals. Once obtained, we prepared our sample for HPLC analysis.
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Supernatant was extracted by spinning down cells at 1600g for 10min. The supernatant was then acidified to pH of 2.0 with 6N HCl for efficient extraction of solutes. We then extracted the supernatant with equal volume of ethyl acetate. The extract was then dried with nitrogen gas and re-suspended in mobile phase with 80% acetonitrile. The resuspended extract was lastly filtered using a 0.45 μm PTFE or nylon filter. These samples were then run on an HPLC using a C18 column (150 x 3 mm) at a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min. The samples were monitored at 280 nm with identification of DBT and its retention time.

Latest revision as of 03:48, 4 October 2012

British Columbia - 2012.igem.org
UBC iGEM 2012 notebook
Sept 8 & Sept 9

To obtain a control for our project which distributes the DszABC operon amongst three different auxotrophs, we needed to show the rate of desulfurization (removal of dibenzothiophene) when the entire DszABC pathway is transformed into a single host. To perform this experiment, we grew a culture of E.coli containing the optimized plasmid for the DszABC pathway cloned from Rhodococcus erythropolis IGTS8. This construct was obtained from Dr.Keasling and was the source for our DszC biobrick.

An overnight culture for this E.coli cloned with the DszABC operon was grown overnight in 5mL culture of LB. We inoculated the overnight culture in 200mL culture of LB in a 500mL flask so that we have a starting O.D600 is 0.05. Prior to inoculation, dibenzothiophene (DBT) was dissolved in DMSO at a concentration 100ppm. This was added to the 200mL culture such that it contains 2% DMSO. For a control, we inoculated an E.coli K12 strain without the plasmid, which should not contain the necessary enzyme of biodesulfurization.

Next, we incubated both cultures at 37°C shaking at 200 rpm. To obtain a representation of DBT removal over time, we extracted 25mL of each culture at O.D 600 of 0.3, 0.7, and 1.0 intervals. Once obtained, we prepared our sample for HPLC analysis.

Supernatant was extracted by spinning down cells at 1600g for 10min. The supernatant was then acidified to pH of 2.0 with 6N HCl for efficient extraction of solutes. We then extracted the supernatant with equal volume of ethyl acetate. The extract was then dried with nitrogen gas and re-suspended in mobile phase with 80% acetonitrile. The resuspended extract was lastly filtered using a 0.45 μm PTFE or nylon filter. These samples were then run on an HPLC using a C18 column (150 x 3 mm) at a flow rate of 0.8 ml/min. The samples were monitored at 280 nm with identification of DBT and its retention time.

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