Team:Cambridge/Lab book/Week 6

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Contents

Monday

PCR of vectors


Not all products were obtained during Friday's PCR. Most of these missing products were large vector backbones. They are being run again, with a much longer extension time of 300s. If that fails, primers will be ordered to split the vectors into manageable chunks, and the PCR reattempted when they arrive.

PCR cycle x35:

  • 15s Denaturing at 95 C
  • 45s Annealing at 60 C
  • 300s Extension at 72 C

The remaining stray product had a slightly tricky secondary structure at the 3' end. It will be run at a series of annealing temperatures in a PCR machine capable of a temperature gradient.

Construction of riboswitch plasmid with Gibson Assembly


  • DNA from lanes 27+28, 27+29, 27+30 from gels run on Friday fused together with Gibson assembly to produce riboswitch construct. This does not have replacement of the first 8 codons of lac I with the 8 codons native to the gene downstream of the riboswitch.
  • DNA from lanes 22,23 and 24 fused with riboswitch DNA produced two weeks ago to produce riboswitch construct. This has replacement of the first 8 codons of lac I with the 8 codons native to the gene downstream of the riboswitch.

Transformation of Bacillus with riboswitch construct


  • Plasmids made by Gibson transformed into bacillus cells made two weeks ago and transformants plated out on 5μg/ml chloramphenicol plates.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday