Team:Cornell/Week 10

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Revision as of 19:42, 8 August 2011

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August 7th - August 13th

Sunday, August 7

Morning lab work done by: Youjin Cho and Claire Paduano

Objective
Prepare VioE in Avi-Tagged pZE12 vector backbone for VioA and VioB gene inserts
Digestion Setup
23.65μL H2O
18.6μL VioE in Avi-Tagged pZE12 vector backbone (1μg)
5μL 10x NEBuffer 2
0.5μL 100x BSA
1.25μL KpnI
1μL HindIII
50μL Total
KpnI has only 75% efficiency in Buffer 2, so added 0.25uL more KpnI to digestion mixture
Incubate in 37°C water bath for 2 hours

Afternoon lab work done by: Jim Mathew, Charlie Chung

Objective
Ligate vioA and vioB genes onto their own pZE12 vector backbone, in place of the vioE that is now digested out
Ligation Reaction Setup
  • vioA + Avi-Tagged pZE12 vector backbone
11.4μL pZE12 backbone (cut with KpnI & HindIII; former vioE gene digested out)
3.3μL vioA gene insert (cut with KpnI & HindIII)
2.3μL H2O
2μL 10x T4 DNA ligase buffer
1μL T4 DNA ligase
20μL Total
  • vioB + Avi-Tagged pZE12 vector backbone
9μL vioB gene insert (cut with KpnI & HindIII)
8μL pZE12 backbone (cut with KpnI & HindIII; former vioE gene digested out)
2μL 10x T4 DNA ligase buffer
1μL T4 DNA ligase
20μL Total
  • Control Ligation for vioA and vioB Gene Inserts
11.4μL pZE12 backbone (cut with KpnI & HindIII; former vioE gene digested out)
5.6μL H2O (gene insert volumes go toward water volume)
2μL 10x T4 DNA ligase buffer
1μL T4 DNA ligase
20μL Total
Incubate all ligation reaction constructs overnight in 16°C waterbath.

Evening lab work done by: Charlie Chung

Objective
Because previous DH5α colonies transformed with (vioE + Avi-Tagged backbone) are very small, in addition to one failed 5mL culture and one discarded Miniprep sample, incubated plate for four more hours.
  • Picked three new colonies. Labeled as "vioE + Avi + BB #4, 5, 6"
  • 5mL LB cultures with 5μL ampicillin incubated overnight in 37°C shaker of Room 304.

Monday, August 8

Tuesday, August 9

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday