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== Notebook: Week 10 ==
== Notebook: Week 10 ==
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''Friday''
 
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- Planned/mapped out next 4 weeks
 
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- Took dialyzed bag with purified eGFP-RiAFP and divided it into 12 eppendorfs, containing 1 mL each.  Flash-froze tubes in liquid nitrogen, then quickly used a hot edge to poke holes into top of eppendorfs to allow sublimation.  Tubes then placed in lyophilizer for 3 nights.
 
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''Saturday''
 
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- Began cloning all pSB1AK8 constructs into pSB1C3 for parts submission (G3, H1, RiA, RiG, T2, Z2?):
 
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- Digested 6 constructs and linearized pSB1C3 with EcoRI, PstI
 
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- Also, PCR amplified eGFP segment from original eGFP-RiAFP plasmid to use as a control for survival assays
 
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- Digested PCR fragment with eGFP with XbaI, PstI, and digested BBa_I712074 (strong T7 promoter) with SpeI and PstI
 
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- Gel extracted all digested pSB1AK8 constructs using kit, gel visualized with SYBRSafe (digestion seemed successful)
 
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''Sunday''
 
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- Ligated gel-extracted pSB1AK8 fragments with pSB1C3; ligated eGFP PCR fragment with BBa_I712074
 
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- Transformed ligations into DH5alpha cells, plated them
 
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''Monday''
 
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- Ran colony PCR on transformed samples; seems to confirm successful ligation (see pics below):
 
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- Picked up lyophilized cells; resuspended first in 50 mL of 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5); A280 ~ .72, A488 ~ .13; however, looked cloudy (possible aggregation?), so centrifuged at 13K rpm for 10 minutes, and UV-vised the supernatant, A280 ~ .23, A488 ~ .04, suggesting around 75% was aggregated.  Tried again to resuspend in 100 mL Tris-HCl and adding 50 mM NaCl; still no good; tried adding acid and killed protein activity
 
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''Tuesday''
 
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- Miniprepped successful colony PCRs and submitted samples for sequencing
 
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- Prepared more buffers for protein purification
 
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- Transformed eGFP and eGFP-RiAFP and RiAFP cells
 
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''Wednesday''
 
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- Protein purification round 2!
 
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- Prepared a lysis buffer of 50 mM NaH2PO4, 300 mM NaCl (with 1 mM PMSF added before lysis), and 500 mM imidazole elution buffer (with same salts as lysis buffer)
 
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- Innoculated eGFP, eGFP-RiAFP, and RiAFP cells
 
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- Resuspended 1 L (500 mL) worth of eGFP-RiAFP (RiAFP) pellets in around 35 mL lysis buffer
 
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- Sonicated (using Spiegel lab sonicator) with 1 s on/4 s off for 25 total minutes of sonication for each resuspended pellet (unforunately, RiAFP sample by itself was foaming when we returned...)
 
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- Equilibrated 2 1 mL packed Ni-NTA columns (from Modis lab) with lysis buffer using peristaltic pump
 
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- Spin-concentrated samples using
 
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- Ran w FPLC/Fraction Collector Ni-NTA
 
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''Thursday''
 
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- Ran/checked gels with lots of protein
 
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- Grew up more cells
 
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- Size exclusion (small load) with eGFP-RiAFP and DTT'ed (after spin concentration)
 
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- Incubated with TEV
 
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''Friday''
 
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- Size exclusion of TEV-ed protein
 
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