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<p>After induction for 15 hours, the cells were harvested and lysed with 5ml BugBuster containing 1µl/ml Benzonase. The supernatant of this suspension was put on a Ni-NTA column for purification and afterwards put on a PD10 column and washed with a TRIS buffer containing NaCl to remove all the calcium molecules. Then, an SDS-gel was prepared to check the purity of the GECO proteins (See figure below).</p> | <p>After induction for 15 hours, the cells were harvested and lysed with 5ml BugBuster containing 1µl/ml Benzonase. The supernatant of this suspension was put on a Ni-NTA column for purification and afterwards put on a PD10 column and washed with a TRIS buffer containing NaCl to remove all the calcium molecules. Then, an SDS-gel was prepared to check the purity of the GECO proteins (See figure below).</p> | ||
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Revision as of 18:11, 26 September 2012
Our iGEM team prepared three different BioBricks: BBa_K881000 (R-GECO), BBa_K881001 (G-GECO), BBa_K881002 (B-GECO). These three GECO proteins, which are obtained from Zhao et al. 2011[1], are red, green and blue fluorescent respectively. For ligation and restriction, the protocol obtained from the BioBrick library didn't work for our Biobricks. Therefore, we designed our own protocol, which can be found at the 'Protocol' page, and is shortly described here. The coding DNA for these three proteins was ligated into a <partinfo>pSB1C3</partinfo> vector. After culturing, the vectors were restricted with restriction enzymes XbaI en PstI. These enzymes restricted the vector nicely, however, the DNA sequence coding for the fluorescent GECO proteins appears to contain a restriction site for PstI aswell. Therefore, this procedure was repeated with restriction enzymes XbaI and SpeI. Using this restriction, the BioBricks can be used in yeast cells and E.coli bacteria.
Although, these BioBricks are prepared in a more efficient way using our own protocol, the permission we needed to apply the GECO BioBricks to registry library was not easy to obtain. You can read more about this struggle at the 'Considerations' page.
Characterization
E. Coli strain BL21 transformed with Part BBa_K881000 and Part BBa_K881001 ligated into vector pET_28a were cultured in LB media containing 100 µg/ml kanamycin for ~4 hours at 37°C. The growth rate was followed by use of OD600 measurements (see figure on the right). Then the culture was induced at an OD600 of 0,82 absorption units with 100 µg/ml IPTG.
Harvesting and Purification
After induction for 15 hours, the cells were harvested and lysed with 5ml BugBuster containing 1µl/ml Benzonase. The supernatant of this suspension was put on a Ni-NTA column for purification and afterwards put on a PD10 column and washed with a TRIS buffer containing NaCl to remove all the calcium molecules. Then, an SDS-gel was prepared to check the purity of the GECO proteins (See figure below).
Calcium titration
References
- [1] Zhao, Y. et al. An Expanded Palette of Genetically Encoded Ca2+ Indicators, Science 333, 1888-1891, (2011)
