Team:Cambridge/Lab book/Week 7

Monday

PCR of Magnesium riboswitch vector fragment B and Magnesium promoter

Riboswitch and promoter gel. Lanes 2+3: Fragment B without 8 codon substitution, lanes 4+5: Fragment B with 8 codon substitution, lanes 6+7: magnesium sensitive promoter, lane 8: +ve control

• Normal PCR settings used, annealing temperature 57 °C, elongation step 90s long.

• Lane 5 accidentally loaded with a DNA ladder instead of loading dye.

• Expected fragment sizes:

• Lane 2-5: 3kbp

• Lane 6-7: 300bp

• After electrophoresis, found vector products had, for the most part, worked. Promoter elements were not amplified - no band of the expected size was observed.

• Positive control also failed, although this has ceased to work for several days, potentially due to DNA degradation.

Tuesday

Production of electrocompetent e.coli

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday