Contructions PSB1C3 with I20260, J23101-E1010 and K823012-E1010

The 4 needed parts are: BBa_J23101, BBa_K823012, BBa_E0240 and BBa_I20260. Corresponding wells were located on 2014 Distribution kit plates and resuspended with 10 µL steril water. That permits to obtain a DNA concentration around 0.2 ng/µl (according to the registry. Solutions were transferred into 1 ml eppendorf tubes and stored at -20°C.
To amplify fragments, a PCR was performed on the 4 constructions, with the mix described on table 1.

Table 1: PCR mix preparation

Distribution of 49 µl of mix per PCR tube. Application of program IGEM Q5 PCR.

Table 2: IGEM Q5 PCR program thermocycling conditions

Preparation of a 1% agarose gel: 0.56 g of Top Vision agarose (Thermo Scientific) + 50 ml of TAE 1X.Microwave 30s by 30s until agarose total dissolution. Gel was cooling down until to be lukewarm, one BET drop was added. Gel was loaded with 10µl per sample previously added with 2 µl of loading dye 6X, and 5 µl for ladders. Gel running 45 minutes at 100 mV in TAE 1X buffer.

Figure 1: 1% agarose gel of PCR products.

Lane 1: BBa_K823012 PCR product, Lane 2: pBHR1 PCR product, Lane 3 and 6: Purple 2-Log ladder NEB, Lane 4: BBa_E0240 PCR product, Lane 5: BBa_I20260 PCR product, Lane 7: 1 Kb plus Ladder Ogene Ruller and Lane 8: BBa_J23101 PCR product

We expected to obtain one band per PCR sample corresponding to the interesting amplified fragment. For Lane 2, 3 and 6 it was ok. We had the expected profile. By contrast 2 bands were visible, one at the expected size (around 1200 bp) and another around 600 bp. We decided to perform a purification on gel of each bands.