"

From 2012.igem.org

week 14: 30 july - 5 august

Lab work

Hepatitis B

---

30.July

• Miniprepping of successful transformants from the transformation (Hep B + BBa_J04500)
• Digestion check of those minipreps

1.August

-> the digestion check was repeated 2 times (once with a longer incubation time and once with a higher amount of DNA in the digestion mixture) until the insert size could be seen on the gel

digestion check 1.August

-> the digestion check confirmed the right insert sizes in the samples they where expected (around 800bp)

TuYV

• The four 'brickable' TuYV CP gene amplicons (1,1H,4,4H) were digested, ligated into the backbone from BBa_J04450, which is ampicillin resistant and transformed into our electrocompetent Mach1 E coli.
• Colony check: We saw many colonies on all 4 sample plates this time.
• We did two colony PCR to check the samples, but we got negative results from the colony PCR. Even so, we still continued to miniprep those colonoes which were used for colony PCR and checked them with normal PCR later, this time we saw expected bands for all 4 samples, which should be around 600bp for 1(TuYV coat protein) and 1H(TuYV coat protein with his-tag) and 800bp for 4(TuYV coat protein with partial readthrough) and 4H (TuYV coat protein with partial readthrough with his-tag).

PLRV

The PCR products obtained after Reverse Transcription followed by PCR were used as template to add iGEM prefix and suffix.

---

[previous week] [next week]