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Lab Journal

Thursday 23/6

Lab equipment was prepared: Pipette tips, 1.5 ml tubes, toothpicks, SOC, LA with 100 µg/ml ampicillin/ 100 µg/ml spectinomycin (from 1988). Recipies are given in recipies section.


Friday 24/6

Biobricks were taken out from kit by resuspending them in sterile water followed by transformation to E.coli DH5 alpha. The biobricks that were taken out are given below:

Abbreviation Name Part number Resistance
P1 rrnB P1 BBa_K112118 Spec
lambda pR lambda pR mod BBa_R0051 Amp
RFP TetR + p(TetR)+RFP BBa_K092600 Amp
Lux TetR + p(TetR)+RFP+luxI BBa_K092700 Amp



Saturday 25/6

Plates with transformants were moved to fridge.


Sunday 26/6

Transformants were inoculated in 3 ml LB + proper antibiotics to prepare for isolation of plasmid.


Monday 27/6

Plasmids that contained P1, lambda pR, RFP and Lux biobricks were isolated by using miniprep kit from Promega.

Consentrations of the biobricks were measured and were as follows:

Biobrick Consentration (ng/µl)
P1 98.4
lamda pR 43.8
RFP 141.8
Lux 62.8


Transformants from Lux/RFP constructs were not red as expected. It was suggested that the phenotype could be explained by presence of TetR in the system. Since tetracycline (Tc) is an inhibitor of TetR we tried to grow the transformants in sublethal consentrations of Tc. E. coli with RFP were grown in 3 ml LB with 0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0, 1.5 and 100 µg/ml Tc.


Tuesday 28/6

It's Jon's birthday! Happy day!

lambda pR was ligated to RFP backbone:

RFP and Luc construct were cut with EcoRI and XbaI.

lambda pR was cut with EcoRI og SpeI


Restriction digestion was done using iGEM's protocol[http://partsregistry.org/Help:Protocols/Restriction_Digest

iGEM's protocol]


Alternativ design av system som skal gjøre cellene røde ved tilsats av ppGpp: