Team:UCLA/Notebook/Protocols

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Protocols


Equipment for the collection of recombinant silk
Equipment Protocol

List of Reagents
Reagent Protocol

PCR for MASP1 and MASP2
PCR Protocol

Silk Fibroin Extraction
Silk Fibroin Extraction Protocol

Silk Films
Silk Films Protocol

Electrospun Fibers
Electrospun Fiber Protocol

Silk Thread
Silk Thread Protocol
Outline
  1. Construction of the Synthetic Spider Silk Multimeric Gene
  2. Cloning of the spider silk multimer into the expression vector
  3. Gene Expression of pETsilk
  4. E.coli Cell Lysis
  5. Silk Protein Purification Using IMAC
  6. Dialysis
  7. Protein Analysis
  8. Amino Acid Analysis
  9. Overall: Timing of Procedure

Reference

Materials Fabrication
Rockwood, Danielle N., Rucsanda C. Preda, Tuna Yücel, Xiaoqin Wang, Michael L. Lovett, and David L. Kaplan. "Materials Fabrication from Bombyx Mori Silk Fibroin." Nature Protocols 6.10 (2011): 1612-631. Web.


Production of MASP1/2
Teulé, Florence, Alyssa R. Cooper, William A. Furin, Daniela Bittencourt, Elibio L. Rech, Amanda Brooks, and Randolph V. Lewis. "A Protocol for the Production of Recombinant Spider Silk-like Proteins for Artificial Fiber Spinning." Nature Protocols 4.3 (2009): 341-55. Web.