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    8/1/2011

    Phoenie: re-test the strains. I find that the PCR with bacteria culture and plasmid gives different result. PCR with bacteria culture shows that the AGG4 primers can also give positive result and PCR with plasmid doesn't

    Pony: Extracted pTrc99B from 4 tubes. Only one is succeed. Then, Bear amplified lacI gene+Trc promoter from pTrc99B and inserted the DNA fregment into plasmid pACYC184 by overlapping PCR.

    Fig1 Amplified (lacI+tac promoter) from pTrc99B
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    8/2/2011

    Phoenie: The seller called me and told me that he had vacation in July and today is his first working day. The enzyme will arrive TOMORROW.

    next time we must order the enzyme when there is at least 10 mul left.

    太坑爹了!

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    8/3/2011

    Chunying:Use the optimized primers to amplify the wild luc gene,failed. Try different proportion of the template and the primer(template 2ul,primer 10p,20p,30p) to amplify the gene, the result will come out tomorrow.

    Zhangbo: We have changed the reporter gene into RFP and design the new primer for the PCR. I have a attempt towards the tRNA mutation

    Nachte: Our problem is that a right fragment with right extending primers just can not be insert into that danmed plasmid.

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    8/4/2011

    Chunying:Different proportion of the template and primers did not result in successful amplification of the wild luc gene. The third amplification got the luc gene. Insert the wild luc gene into the pReporter(replace the amp gene). Transform the new pReporter plasmid into the cell and spread bacteria on the plate.(total 4 group, PCR at four different annealing temperature-50,53,57,60)

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    8/5/2011

    Zhangbo: I have done the PCR of the tRNA mutaion and transfer the plasmid into DH5a. And utilizing the restriction enzyme to cleave the pET28a-amp and the trpRS product.

    Chunying:The four transformations failed.Amply the wild luc gene again.

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    8/6/2011

    Zhangbo construction of the tRNA with the promoter and the terminator, I use the PCR to get this parts.

    PCR KOD buf             5ul
    dNTP                         5ul
    Mg2+                        3ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1)            2/2ul
    Plasmid(pBRIVTC3.4)  1ul
    KOD                          1ul
    ddH2O                      31ul 
    

    Program:

    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 30s 31cycle
    68 7min 
    

    Purify the DNA by TianGen Solution.

    Overlapping PCR

    DNA(above)      10ul
    pACYC184         5ul
    PCR KOD buf     3ul
    dNTP                 3ul
    Mg2+             1.8ul
    KOD                 1ul
    ddH2O            6.2ul
    

    Program:

    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 4min30s 31 cycle
    68 7min
    

    Instruction of the trpRS by Nco1 and Nde1

    PCR KOD buf        5ul
    dNTP                    5ul
    Mg2+                   3ul
    F/R(trpRS)          2/2ul
    Plasmid(pRS1.1)     1ul
    KOD                      1ul
    ddH2O                 31ul 
    

    Purified the PCR product by Tiangen PCR purification Kit

    Restriction enzyme

    Buf    2ul
    DNA   16ul(plasmid)
    Nde1   1ul
    Nco1   1ul
    Total    20ul
    

    Deal with the PCR result above with the DpnI

    1ul enzyme(Fast Digest) into 50ul PCR result for 2 hours
    Transfer the plasmid into the DH5a
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Bind the pET28a and PCR product

    PEG4000       1.5ul
    Buf               1.5ul
    Plasmid           3ul
    Pcr product     6ul
    Lingase            1ul
    ddH2O            2ul
    Total              15ul
    

    Program 22℃ 2 hours 72℃ 10min

    Transfer the product into the Dh5a

    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Bind the pET28a and PCR product

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    8/7/2011

    Phoenie: Last night the plate which we spreat bacteria on have colonies on it but this morning the postive test showed that none of them contains the pET28a-luc plasmid.

    Parrot suggests that we can change the amount of plasmid and PCR product in each insertion reaction. And we re-cloned the luciferase with both sets of homogenous arms and performed a series of reaction with gradient plasmid and PCR product concertration and purified, transformed the insertion product.

    We also cultured the strain which was co-transformed with the pSwitch-arg and pReporter-AGG6 last night and the positive strains with pReporter-TAG

    BTW, the internet is so poor in the office today, I can hardly open any website except the homepage of Baidu.

                 __....__           
            .-~~/  \__/  \~~-.     If only the web can be a little faster~   
           /_/``\__/  \__/``\_\.--.  /           /
          /  \__/  \__/  \__/  \   o`.          /   
      `==/\__/__\__/__\__/__\__/\`'--' _______ /   
         ~/__/__/^^^^^^^^\__\__\~     |_______|
    

    8.7 Zhangbo:

    PCR testing on the Plasmid(WtRNA)(purified by tiangen Kit)
    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul 
    
    figure1:PCR testing on the Plasmid(WtRNA)
    PCR testing on the Plasmid(trpRS-lingase)(purified by tiangen Kit)
    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul
    
    figure1:PCR testing on the trpRS
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    8/8/2011

    Phoenie: the socond co-transform is success and begin to insert by two step method 8.8 Zhangbo

    I choose the WTM-2 and the WRS-1,2 for the sequencing by JieLi corp.

    Nachte: Another cycle of cloning,we transformed ArgW-pTrc99b.

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    8/9/2011

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    8/10/2011

    Chunying:Divide the wild luciferase into two parts then amplify and insert them respectively. Today, inserted the latter part of the luc gene into the plasmid(pET28a-Amp) and transformed the new plasmid into Dh5a.

    In case that the luciferase will not be the best choice for our reporter gene, we use beta-lactamase as the other candidate for the reporter gene( because of its easier conduction and cheaper detection). Today we use the primer(R&L 004/005) to introduce mutation into the beta-lactamase gene (in its signal peptide)on the pET28a-Amp and transformed the new plasmid into Dh5a and spread bacterial on the Kana plate.

    Zhangbo: In this morning, the result of the sequencing of the samples has arrived by E-mail.

    The result of the tRNA lose a base in a very important part which may lead to the failure of the expression of the tRNA I want. So i check my primer and try for another time in this week.

    Nachte: Vaccinated several clonies of ArgW-pTrc99b.

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    8/11/2011

    Chunying: The bacterial that has half of the wild luciferase gene has grown on the plate. Negative screening for the stains.

    ZHangbo:

    8.11 
    

    Instruction of the tRNA with the promoter and the terminator, I use the PCR to get this parts.

    PCR KOD buf            5ul
    dNTP                        5ul
    Mg2+                      3ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1)          2/2ul
    Plasmid(pBRIVTC3.4) 1ul
    KOD                         1ul
    ddH2O                     31ul 
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 30s 31cycle
    68 7min
    

    Purify the DNA by TianGen Solution.

    Overlapping PCR
    DNA(above) 10ul
    pACYC184  5ul
    PCR KOD buf  3ul
    dNTP        3ul
    Mg2+       1.8ul
    KOD         1ul
    ddH2O      6.2ul
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 56 30s 68 4min30s 31 cycle
    68 7min
    

    Nachte:Extracted plasmid ,verificating by PCR,and sending for sequencing.

    Alfred:Design the primers needed:

    For T7 promoter plus terminate containing MCS

    T7-F:5'-GCGGTGCGGACTGTTGTATTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGG-3'
    T7-R:5'-GATCGTGCTCCTGTCGTTGCCGGAATTCCAAAAAACCCCTCAAGAC-3'
    

    For truncated AspRS (without N-terminal anti-codon binding domain)

    TDRS-F: 5’-CATGCCATGGATGTTCTGCCGCTTGACTCT-3’
    

    For AspV gene(tRNAAsp)

    AspV-F: 5’-CCACCATACCCACGCCGAAACCTAAAAATAGCGACTTGGGC-3’ 
    AspV-R: 5’-TTGCCGTTACGCACCACCCTTGAACAGAGAAATGGTGGAA-3’
    

    For mutation of AspV gene (GTC→CCT)

    AspV-M-F: 5’- AGTCGGTTAGAATACCTGCCTCCTACGCAGGGGGTCGC -3’ 
    AspV-M-R: 5’- GCGACCCCCTGCGTAGGAGGCAGGTATTCTAACCGACT -3’
    


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    8/12/2011

    Phoenie: The colony PCR shows that we may get the plasmid with half of the luciferase gene on it. we culture the colony in liquid medium.

    However other method turned out unsuccessful.

    Zhangbo:8.12

    The result of the WRS by T7 promoter is not correct compared with the trpRS in my database. Instruction of the trpRS by Nco1 and Nde1

    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(trpRS)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(pRS1.1) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    

    Purified the PCR product by Tiangen PCR purification Kit

    Restriction enzyme
    Buf    2ul
    DNA   16ul(plasmid)
    Nde1   1ul
    Nco1   1ul
    Total    20ul
    
    figure1: The plasmid and the enzyme

    Deal with the PCR result above with the DpnI

    1ul enzyme(Fast Digest) into 50ul PCR result for 2 hours
    Transfer the plasmid into the DH5a
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Nachte:I went to the Kendo training,so it's midnight when I heard that Pony didn't gain GFP and RFP fragments with my primers.According to 8.13 is my birthday , burning midnight oil in the lab should be a awfully good idea of celebrating.

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    8/13/2011

    Phoenie: We extract the pET28a-halfluc and insert the front part of wt luc and 4AGG luc into the plasmid.

    Zhangbo: 8.13 PCR testing on the Plasmid(WtRNA)(purified by tiangen Kit)

    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul 
    
    figure1: result of the test of the WTM plasmid

    I choose both for sequencing.

    Bind the pET28a and PCR product

    PEG4000 1.5ul
    Buf       1.5ul
    Plasmid   3ul
    Pcr product 6ul
    Lingase    1ul
    ddH2O     2ul
    Total       15ul
    Program   22℃ 2 hours 72℃ 10min 
    Transfer the product into the Dh5a 
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    Bind the pET28a and PCR product
    

    Nachte:My spectulation is right~

    Only a little change of the PCR program brought our target to me= 3=

    Well,frankly,my dear,it's my fault to create such a pair of abnormal temperature requiring primers.

    Alfred:Amplify T7 promoter plus terminate containing MCS from pET-28a plasmid.

    Reaction mixture:
    10× PCR buffer for taq	 5μl
    2.5mM dNTP Mixture	 5μl
    25mM MgCl2	         3μl
    TaKaRa Taq		 0.5μl
    T7-F+T7-R	         2+2μl
    pET-28a plasmid	 2μl
    ddH2O	                 up to 50μl
    

    After extract the PCR product, I introduced the T7 promoter plus terminate containing MCS into pACYC-184 plasmid (overlapping PCR method).

    Reaction mixture:
    10× PCR buffer for KOD	 3μl
    2mM dNTP Mixture	 3μl
    25mM MgSO4	         1.8μl
    KOD - Plus	         0.3μl
    T7 segment	         5μl
    pACYC-184 plasmid	 5μl
    ddH2O	                 up to 30μl
    

    After overlapping PCR, digest the PCR product with DpnI enzyme for eliminate the template plasmid. Subsequently, transform it into DH5α competent cell.

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    8/14/2011

    Phoenie: the result of positive test PCR is quite pulsing. It seems that the front part of the luciferase gene has not been inserted into the plasmid pET28a-halfluc right. So several other colonies are picked and cultured for further test in hope of getting the right strains

    Nachte:God-Wang send me a pair of ultra homologous and he guaranteed that they work well.I hope so@(ω)@

    Do a new cycle of construction.

    Alfred:Choose eight colonies from yesterday’s plant and incubate them in LB liquid medium. 3 hours later, conduct a PCR test for validating whether the T7 promoter plus terminate containing MCS is introduced into pACYC-184 plasmid.

    Reaction mixture:
    10× PCR buffer for taq	 2μl
    2.5mM dNTP Mixture	 2μl
    25mM MgCl	         1.2μl
    TaKaRa Taq	         0.3μl
    T7-F+T7-R	         1+1μl
    colony	                 1μl
    ddH2O	                 up to 30μl
    

    I found that all the colony is correct, so I choose one colony to incubate amplifiedly and extract plasmid, named as pACYC-T7.

    Amplify AspV gene from E.coli genome.

    Reaction mixture:
    10× PCR buffer for taq	 5μl
    2.5mM dNTP Mixture	 5μl
    25mM MgCl2	         3μl
    TaKaRa Taq	         0.5μl
    AspV-F+ AspV-R	         2+2μl
    E.coli genome	         2μl
    ddH2O	                 up to 50μl
    
    wall1:AspV wall2:marker

    Introduce AspV gene into pACYC-T7 through overlapping PCR.

    After overlapping PCR, digest the PCR product with DpnI enzyme for eliminate the template plasmid. Subsequently, transform it into DH5α competent cell.

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    8/15/2011

    Phoenie: Send pET28a-halfluc and several other stains to the company for sequencing. extract the plasmid form the strain that may contain pReporter-wtluc pReporter-4AGG wtluc.

    The following figure shows the PCR test result.

    fig1: pReporter-wtluc pReporter-4AGG 's plasmids

    Zhangbo: 8.14 / 8.15

    PCR testing on the Plasmid(trpRS-lingase)(purified by tiangen Kit)
    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul
    
    figure2:The result of the test

    I choose the WRS-3,4 for sequencing.

    Nachte:YOOOOOO!The god's creator doesn't work as well!

    Alfred:There were several colonies on the yesterday’s palnt. I incubated them in LB liquid medium and extract plasmid named as pACYC-T7-AspV. Then I did the PCR to validate its correctness.

    wall1:marker wall2:colony 1 wall3:colony 2

    Amplify the truncated AspRS for E.coli genome with the primer TDRS-F+ TDRS-R.

    wall1:PCR product 1 wall2:PCR product 1 wall3:marker
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    8/16/2011

    Phoenie: Today we test the luciferase activity of E.coli strain ER2566 which contains pSwitch and pReporter to test the argW system and suppressor system.

    When the OD600 of the bacteria culture reaches 0.8, we expose the experiment groups under UV light in the sterilized petri dish for 20s.(the power of the UV lamp is 20W; distance between the lamp and petri dish is around 35cm). Then the exposed culture liquid is collected and cultured for another 2 hours. Then culture is centrifuged by 8000 r/min for 3min and resuspended with 2ml 0.85% sterilized pre-cooled NaCl solution. The OD600 of each suspension is measured

    The bacteria is ultrasonic disintegrated for 2 min, with 3s pulse for every 3s work. The sonicated bacterial cells is centrifuged by 10000 r/min for 1min to get rid of the cell debris. Then we measure the luciferase activity in each sample (mix 100 mul supernatant with 100 mul luciferin substrates).

    The result is somehow confusing

    group                     luciferase activity/OD066
    AGG6 experiment group     ~11,000,000/3
    AGG6 control group           ~11,000,000/3
    TAG2 experiment group             ~2,000/3
    TAG2 control group                    ~1,000/3
    

    Phoenie: the sequencing result shows that the AGG4 mutation has been constructed correctly.

    ZHangbo: 8.16 In the result of the WTM-1234, i find that the base is still missing and i check the sequence of the tRNA in my database which lead to a sad truth that the the missing is caused by myself so the construction of the tRNA successes.

    Nachte:Start to build pReporter~No one has experience with linker design,so we have to begin with a terrible high annealing temperature-72℃.

    The PCR result is horrorable,there are so many mispriming bands that Gel Extraction should be the best choice.

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    8/17/2011

    Phoenie: Today we test the luciferase activity of the DH5a stains which contains only pReporter-6AGG and pReporter-4AGG respectively. We culture the bacteria until the OD600 is around 0.8 and directly measure its luciferase activity, without UV exposure and additional 2-hour culture. The result shows that the relative enzyme activity of stains which contains only pReporter-6AGG or pReporter-4AGG is lower than those that contains both pSwitch and pReporter. The strain containing 4AGG has higher activity than that containing 6AGG.

    ZHangbo: 8.17 From the work result and the discussion of 8.17, the program of mine changed and find out several mistakes in my program into the instruction of the T7 promoter from the pET28a to the pACYC184 plasmid by the overlapping PCR. Redesign the primer WRS-2 for the mistake on the Nco1 restriction site which has a ATG within. Design the T7-1 primer.

    Nachte:Holly shit, the part of fusion protein can't be inserted into the vector too,regarding which our plan of overlapping PCR may be not a good way.

    Alfred:The mutation of pACYC-T7-AspV was failed. Try again with yesterday’s protocol.

    In the contrast, the linkage of TDRS segment and pET-28a was successful. Do the colony PCRs using T7-F and T7-R.

    wall1: marker wall2-17:Colony PCR

    Finally, extract the plasmid named pET-TDRS.

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    8/18/2011

    Phoenie: We test the co-transfered colonies by colony PCR. We use the strains without pSwitch-ArgW as negative control. All the five colony we pick give positive result. (The pSwitch-ArgW negative control shows a band that is much weaker than the tested samples.)

    Zhangbo: 8.18 Overlapping

    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(T7-1)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(pET28a) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 30s 31cycle
    68 7min
    
    DNA(above) 10ul
    Plasmid(WTM-9)  5ul
    PCR KOD buf  3ul
    dNTP        3ul
    Mg2+       1.8ul
    KOD         1ul
    ddH2O      6.2ul
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 4min30s 31 cycle
    68 7min
    

    Nachte:In this week's gruop meeting ,we made a difficut decision-change to digestion,every step!I spend the whole afternoon to create the new primers,as the sites of EcoRI and XholI would be added to the 5'end.At the midnight,thanX to my bored feeling,I made the last attempt to get pTEnd by overlapping PCR,with a new program:

    65 30s 68 5min*10cycles

    60 30s 68 5min*10cycles

    55 30s 68 5min*10cycles

    Finally,I got it~

    Alfred:There were so many colonies of pACYC-T7-AspV mutation on the plant, so that I suspected the DpnI did not work. So I conducted 16 colony PCRs, and finally extracted eight tubes of plasmid to sequence.

    The align result was followed.

    11SJTU 0818 Alfred.jpg

    So I confirmed the mutation of pACYC-T7-AspV was done, which named pACYC-T7-AspV(CCT).


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    8/19/2011

    We test different strains under the following conditions:

    co-transformed 4 AGG codon exposed by UV; 
    co-transformed 4 AGG codon non-UV;
    only 4 AGG codon pReporter exposed by UV;
    only 4 AGG codon pReporter non-UV;
    co-transformed 6 AGG codon exposed by UV;
    co-transformed 6 AGG codon non-UV;
    only 6 AGG codon pReporter exposed by UV; 
    only 6 AGG codon pReporter non-UV;
    

    We take samples after UV exposure every half an hour and measure the OD600 of the 5ml bacteria culture, OD600 of the 2ml suspension NaCl solution, DNA concentration of lysis solution, RLU after mix 100 mul solution and 100mul luciferin substrate.

    Zhangbo: 8.19 Transfer the product into the Dh5a

    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    Bind the pET28a and PCR product
    

    Nachte:We are always too simple to be a qualified reseacher! I t's easy to know what is digestion from the text book but setting a digestion primer is not a piece of cake.Nearly every new primer should be rewrited%> <%

    Alfred:Design primers:

    RFP - 1F: 5’- GGAATTCCATATGGCTTCCTCCGAAGACG-3’
    RFP - 1R: 5’- CCGCTCGAGTTAAGCACCGGTGGAGTGAC-3’
    RFP-2F:
     5’- GGAATTCCATATGAGGAGGAGGAGGAGGAGGGCTTCCTCCGAAGACG-3’
    

    Amplify the RFP gene and RFP mutation(AGG) from the plasmid on the 2011 Kit Plant (use RFP-1F+ RFP-1R and RFP-2F+ RFP-1R). Then do the PCR product purification.

    Digest the RFP segment and RFP mutation(AGG) with NdeI and XhoI at the 37℃ for 5 hours. So did the pACYC-T7-AspV(CCT), then linked the RFP segment and RFP mutation(AGG) and pET-28a with T4 ligase. Subsequently, transform it into DH5α competent cell.


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    8/20/2011

    We discuss the result of the experiment and prepare the medium and other equipments.

    Zhangbo:

    8.20 8.19 failed. The result of the WRS by T7 promoter is not correct compared with the trpRS in my database. Instruction of the trpRS by Nco1 and Nde1

    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(WRS-2)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(pRS1.1) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    

    Purified the PCR product by Tiangen PCR purification Kit Restriction enzyme

    Buf    2ul
    DNA   16ul(plasmid)
    Nde1   1ul
    Nco1   1ul
    Total    20ul
    

    Nachte:The sequencing result of pTEnd produced(using primers of our own),not untill then I recognized that I had left the RBS before the ArgW sequence.It's hard to say whether that bug will influence the tRNA-Arg(AGG) expression...BTW,all depend on the contransformation result of pTEnd and team-1's reporter.

    Alfred:Do the colony PCRs for what I transformed yesterday (RFP:6 colonies, RFP-mutation:6 colonies).

    wall1:marker wall2-7:Colony PCR: RFP wall8-13:Colony PCR: RFP-mutation

    Subsequently, I extracted the plasmids for the positive result. These two plasmid were titled pACYC-RFP-AspV(CCT) and pACYC-RFP(AGG)-AspV(CCT).

    All the plamids needed, including pET-TDRS, pACYC-RFP-AspV(CCT) and pACYC-RFP(AGG)-AspV(CCT), were sequenced by invotrogen.


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    8/21/2011

    We optimize the experiment protocal and test the background RLU by measure the strain with only 4AGG pReporter and co-transformed 4AGG UV system.

    Zhangbo 8.21 binding the product together Bind the pET28a and PCR product

    PEG4000 1.5ul
    Buf       1.5ul
    Plasmid   3ul
    Pcr product 6ul
    Lingase    1ul
    ddH2O     2ul
    Total       15ul
    Program   22℃ 2 hours 72℃ 10min 
    

    Transfer the product into the Dh5a

    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    Bind the pET28a and PCR product
    

    Alfred:Transform pACYC-RFP-AspV(CCT) into ER2566 competent cell.

    Transform pACYC-RFP(AGG)-AspV(CCT) into ER2566 competent cell.

    Co-transform pACYC-RFP(AGG)-AspV(CCT) and pET-TDRS into ER2566 competent cell.

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    8/22/2011

    Zhangbo:

    8.22 8.21Failed. WtRNA introduction to pACYC184-T7

    Overlapping

    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(WtRNA)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(WTM-9) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 30s 31cycle
    68 7min
    
    DNA(above)            10ul
    Plasmid(pACYC184-T7)  5ul
    PCR KOD buf  3ul
    dNTP        3ul
    Mg2+       1.8ul
    KOD         1ul
    ddH2O      6.2ul
    Program:
    94 5min 
    94 30s 55 30s 68 4min30s 31 cycle
    68 7min
    Deal with the PCR result above with the DpnI
    1ul enzyme(Fast Digest) into 50ul PCR result for 2 hours
    Transfer the plasmid into the DH5a
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Nachte:New program!Referencing to the team-1's findings,besides changing of pReporter(AGG)'s promoter,we made another linker include TAG,which must be very strict as an obstacle.

    Alfred:Choose three colonies for each to incubate in 5ml LB liquid medium and induce expression with IPTG (1mM). 24 hours later, centrifugate the bacterial suspension and get the deposition. Observe under nature light and UV.


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    8/23/2011

    Zhangbo: 8.23

    PCR testing on the Plasmid(WtRNA)(purified by tiangen Kit)
    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul 
    
    figure:The result of the test of the plasmid WtRNA mutation

    Sequencing

    Nachte:Ordering primers for TAG and AGG-digestion.

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    8/24/2011

    We test the the lac system (with 4 AGG codon and 6 AGG codon respectively)for the fist time by compare the differences between bacteria with only pReporter and both pSwitch and pReporter under stimulated condition. The result is that the OD600 of the culture stop rising very early when it is around o.6 for bacteria with pReporter and around 0.9 for co-tranformed bacteria

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    8/25/2011

    We test the UV system by testing:

    the co-transformed 4AGG UV system   UV+
    only 4AGG pReporter                 UV+
    the co-transformed 4AGG UV system   UV-
    

    Taking sample: immediately before UV exposure,0.5h 1h 1h20min 1h45min 2h15min 3h 4h 5h after UV exposure

    Nachte:The new primers for TAG have arrived,so we did a new cycle of linking GFP with RFP.From the process of gel extraction we found that linker-TAG works much better under a fixed temperature between the two Tm of primer-GFP-F and primer-RFP-R in which there is a big gap.

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    8/26/2011

    Zhangbo:

    8.26 I find out that the DH5a has been polluted by a plasmid which caused the poor result of the link. Try another Dh5a and try again.

    Instruction of the trpRS by Nco1 and Nde1
    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(WRS-2)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(pRS1.1) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    
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    Purified the PCR product by Tiangen PCR purification Kit
    Restriction enzyme
    Buf    2ul
    DNA   16ul(plasmid)
    Nde1   1ul
    Nco1   1ul
    Total    20ul
    

    Nachte:A big wave of primers arrived!As it's hard to insert such a long fragment into the vector,both overlapping extension and digestion would be taking in acount,and there are the primer couples:

    GFPoverR(3*AGG)+GFPoverF

    GFPdigR(TAG)+GFPoverF

    GFPoverR(3*AGG)+GFPdigF

    GFPdigR(TAG)+GFPdigF

    RFP(3*AGG)+RFPdigR

    RFP(TAG)+RFPdigR


    All these GFP and RFP parts for reporter must be ready tonight,after which we can do a new kind of connection:

    GFP part 3ul

    RFP part 3ul

    primers 3/3ul

    dNTPs 5ul

    10*buffer 5ul

    Mg 3ul

    Taq 1ul

    ddH2O 24ul


    Gel extraction

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    8/27/2011

    Phoenie: We test the co-transformed bacteria with UV system and lac system by comparing the different luciferase activity under the stimulated and non-stimulated condition. The result is confusing as usual.

    Zhangbo; 8.27

    Binding the product together
    Transfer the plasmid into the DH5a
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Nachte:Using the GFP and RFP made yesterday we got two different reporter parts which have digestion sites and homologous sequence,but it seem that primers didn't work well.False priming lead to a lot of bands in various length. To solve this problem,firstly we choose the overlapping parts who performed better as the template,and then use GFPdig-F and RFPdig-R to amplify part with digestion sites.

    fragment 1ul

    primers 1/1ul

    dNTPs 5ul

    10*buffer 5ul

    Mg 3ul

    Taq 1ul

    ddH2O 33ul

    Finally,we saw clear bands in electrophoresis.

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    8/28/2011

    Phoenie:We discuss the possibilities that caused the abnormal data and verify our surmise by a group of preliminary trials to exame the following facts: different batches of reagents, the use of re-suspension solution and freezing. the result shows that reagents that once store at 4 ℃ can greatly effect the read-out but other facts make little different. Besides that we accidentally find out that the DNA concentration read-out can not give efficient information about the lysis of bacteria because the re-suspension solution and lysis solution give similar read-out

    Zhangbo8.28 Testing

    PCR buf       2ul
    dNTP         2ul
    Mg2+        1.2ul
    F/R(WtRNA-1) 0.8/0.8ul
    Plasmid(result)   0.8ul
    KOD          0.4ul
    ddH2O        12ul 
    
    figure1:Result of the Plasmid test

    Sequencing

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    8/29/2011

    test the 4AGG codon UV system again, with new batch of reagent:

    co-transformed 4AGG codon UV  UV system, UV+;
    co-transformed 4AGG codon UV system, UV-;
    only 4AGG codon UV pReporter, UV+;
    only 4AGG codon UV pReporter, UV-;
    

    Zhangbo: 8.29

    Use the plasmid from Zhaobing to construct the pACYC184-T7-RFP/RFPM
    
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    8/30/2011

    Zhangbo: 8.30

    RFP PCR
    PCR KOD buf  5ul
    dNTP        5ul
    Mg2+        3ul
    F/R(RFP)    2/2ul
    Plasmid(13M RFP) 1ul
    KOD           1ul
    ddH2O       31ul 
    
    figure1:Test of the RFP PCR
    Wild left mutate right
    Purified 
    Buf    2ul
    DNA   16ul(plasmid)
    Nde1   1ul
    Xho1   1ul
    Total    20ul
    37℃ 5hours
    

    Nachte:EcoRI and XholI condigestion

    pET28a-Amp 16ul

    FD buffer 2ul

    EcoRI 1ul

    XholI 1ul

    programm:37℃*6h

    connection process

    T4 buffer 1.5ul

    PEG 1.5ul

    plasmid 2 ul

    'G-L-R'fragment 4ul

    T4 lingase 1ul

    ddH2O 5ul

    22℃*2h,70℃*5min

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    8/31/2011

    Zhangbo:

    Binding the product together
    Transfer the plasmid into the DH5a
    10ul into 100ul DH5a
    30min on the ice
    37℃ 2min and 5min on the ice
    220rpm 1 hour 
    Tet solid medium for 16 hours to 24 hours
    

    Nachte:Pony did transformation last night,and I pick colonies this morning.Using colony PCR to test whether the digestion is successful.

    Samples A-1 A-3 T-2 T-3 T-4 T-6 T-8 are positive.After 6h's shaking,we extracted plasmid.