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Notebook

June

June 26th
Goal

Design plasmid for limonene synthase

Procedure

Used MG1665 strain, the RBS with the highest initial rate and the sequence of r-limonene synthase from genBank. Added polyhistidine tail to the construct. Submitted the construct to Jake.

Results

Designed plasmid for limonene synthase using the software geneious. Found a biobricks part containing this sequence. For the purpose of saving budget, we would first transform this standard part into cell and later modify it.

June 27th
Goal

Transform the bioBricks limonene synthase(BBa_I742111) part into e.coli.
We found that the bioBricks kit for 2014 contain the limonene synthase sequence in plate 4 position 3I.

Procedure

  1. Start thawing the competent cells(Used Christina's competent cells) on ice.
  2. Add 50 µL of thawed competent cells into pre-chilled 2ml tube, and another 50µL into a 2ml tube, labelled for your control.
  3. Add 2 µL of the resuspended DNA to the 2ml tube. Pipet up and down a few times, gently. Make sure to keep the competent cells on ice.
  4. Close tubes and incubate the cells on ice for 30 minutes.
  5. Heat shock the cells by immersion in a pre-heated water bath at 42ºC for 60 seconds.
  6. Incubate the cells on ice for 5 minutes.
  7. Incubate the cells at 37ºC for 2 hours while the tubes are rotating or shaking. Important: 2 hour recovery time helps in transformation efficiency, especially for plasmid backbones with antibiotic resistance other than ampicillin.
  8. Label two petri dishes with LB agar and the appropriate antibiotic(s) with the part number, plasmid backbone, and antibiotic resistance. Plate 20 µl and 200 µl of the transformation onto the dishes, and spread. This helps ensure that you will be able to pick out a single colony.
  9. For the control, label two petri dishes with LB agar (CM). Plate 20 µl and 200 µl of the transformation onto the dishes, and spread.
  10. You can pick a single colony, make a glycerol stock, grow up a cell culture and miniprep.

Results

Transformed the plasmid containing limonene synthase sequence from biobricks into E.Coli. Colonies seen on both plates. Glycerol Stock made: PB. 018 and PB. 019

June 28th
Goal

Made chemical competent cell following standard protocol with MG1665 strains.

Procedure

  1. The night before, inoculate a 5 ml culture and grow overnight with selection.
  2. The day of the experiment dilute cells ~ 1:200 into selective media. For this example add 250 ul to 50 ml of selective media. Note: The protocol is easily scaled to increase the number of cells.
  3. Grow the cells to an OD600 of 0.6 – 0.7. Use a large flask, 500ml, for good aeration. Use a baffled flask for fastest growth. This takes about 3 hours depending on the cells. Medium-heavy cloudiness by eye is fine.
  4. Spin down the cells at 4 ºC, 4000 rpm, 15 minutes. Note: Keep the cells at 4 ºC from now on.
  5. Resuspend cells in 15 ml, ice-cold 100 mM CaCl2. Leave on ice 4 hours to overnight.
  6. Spin down the cells at 4 ºC, 4000 rpm, 15 minutes.
  7. Resuspend cells in 4 ml, ice-cold 100 mM CaCl2 + 15% glycerol.
  8. Aliquot into pre-chilled Eppendorf tubes. Use immediately or store at -80ºC.

Note: Frozen cells are only good once.Do not refreeze cells once thawed.

Results

The transformed cell were grown for 20 hours and the transformation was successful. The plates were put into the 4 degree fridge for making stocks on Monday.


July

July 1st
Goal

To design the primers and gBlock to modify the BioBricks part BBa_I742111.

Procedure

  1. decide the major steps of modification
  2. to PCR the biobricks construct using primers that have Agel restriction site sequences.
  3. to digest the PCR product
  4. to PCR the gBlock with Promoter, RBS and restriction sites (Xbal and Agel)
  5. to digest the PCR product
  6. to ligate the two sequences together
  7. 2. Design the primers for PCR and the gBlock including promoter, RBS and restriction sites using the software Geneious.

Results

  • fwd primer for BioBricks part PCR: 0PB.015
  • rev primer for BioBricks: 0PB.016
  • gBlock with promoter, RBS and restriction sites: 0PB. 019
  • fwd primer for gBlock PCR: 0PB.30
  • rev primer for gBlock PCR: 0PB.31
  • (We ended up ordering the gBlock as synthetic gene sequence, because it is too long for oligos and too short for gBlocks. Oh well.)

July 7th
Goal

to extract plasmid of biobricks I742111 from the transformed cells.

Procedure

  1. Growth the cell for two days
  2. Centrifuge the tube for 15 minutes with 4000 rps
  3. Follow the standard protocol of Thermo Scientific miniprep kit
  4. Label the centrifuge tube and store it in the -20 freezer. (Syl miniprep)

Results

  1. We grew two tubes of glycerol stocks. However living cells were only seen in one of them, which was used for miniprep.
  • Plasmid stored in the box after the procedure. PCR would be done tomorrow.
  • July 8th
    Goal

    Amplify limonene synthase gene sequence for E.coli

    • Fw primer: oPB.015
    • Rv primer: oPB.016

    Procedure

    ReagentVolume
    1x
    Nuclease-free water71 ul
    5x Phusion HF Buffer20 ul
    10 mM dNTPs2 ul
    Forward Primer (10 uM)1 ul
    Reverse Primer (10 uM)1 ul
    Template Plasmid1 ul
    Phusion DNA Polymerase1 ul
    DMSO3 ul
    Total Volume100 ul
    TemperatureTimeFunction
    start98 C30 secmelt
    cycle 198 C10 secmelt
    cycle 251 C30 secanneal
    cycle 372 C30 secextend
    finish72 C5 minextend
    blind10 Cforeverblind

    Results

    PCR product at the expected length.

    July 9th
    Goal

    1. To run the Gel of the PCR product to confirm that the segment is at the right length.
    2. to digest the segment using AgeI and XbaI. Purify the digested product.

    Procedure

      • Take the PCR tubes out of the machine.
      • Mixing the dye with PCR products, from each tube.
      • Run the gel for an hour and half using 100bp plus DNA ruler
      • Observe under UV light
      • Digest in the 37 degree incubator for 10 minutes using AgeI and XbaI.
      • ReagentVolume
        Nuclease-free water27.5 ul
        10x FD Buffer5 ul
        DNA12.5 ul
        AgeI2.5 ul
        Xbal2.5 ul
        Total Volume50 ul
      • Purify following the protocol of digestion purification kit. Used warm NF water for diluting DNA at the last step.

    Results

    The PCR product is at expected length. Purified product has a very low concentration(2.5ng/ul), meaning the PCR product was a mixture of multiple segments and didn't give ideal result. Therefore proceed to PCR again.

    July 16th
    Goal

    Amplify limonene synthase gene sequence for E.coli

    • Fw primer: oPB.015
    • Rv primer: oPB.016

    Procedure

    ReagentVolume
    1x
    Nuclease-free water71 ul
    5x Phusion HF Buffer20 ul
    10 mM dNTPs2 ul
    Forward Primer (10 uM)1 ul
    Reverse Primer (10 uM)1 ul
    Template Plasmid1 ul
    Phusion DNA Polymerase1 ul
    DMSO3 ul
    Total Volume100 ul
    TemperatureTimeFunction
    start98 C30 secmelt
    cycle 198 C10 secmelt
    cycle 251 C30 secanneal
    cycle 372 C2.5 minextend
    finish72 C5 minextend
    blind10 Cforeverblind

    Results

    It worked!

    Goal

    : transform the PB19 synthase part into e.coli.

    Procedure

    1. Start thawing the competent cells(Used Christina's competent cells) on ice.
    2. Add 50 µL of thawed competent cells into pre-chilled 2ml tube, and another 50µL into a 2ml tube, labelled for your control.
    3. Add 2 µL of the resuspended DNA to the 2ml tube. Pipet up and down a few times, gently. Make sure to keep the competent cells on ice.
    4. Close tubes and incubate the cells on ice for 30 minutes.
    5. Heat shock the cells by immersion in a pre-heated water bath at 42ºC for 60 seconds.
    6. Incubate the cells on ice for 5 minutes.
    7. Incubate the cells at 37ºC for 2 hours while the tubes are rotating or shaking. Important: 2 hour recovery time helps in transformation efficiency, especially for plasmid backbones with antibiotic resistance other than ampicillin.
    8. Label two petri dishes with LB agar and the appropriate antibiotic(s) with the part number, plasmid backbone, and antibiotic resistance. Plate 20 µl and 200 µl of the transformation onto the dishes, and spread. This helps ensure that you will be able to pick out a single colony.
    9. For the control, label two petri dishes with LB agar (CM). Plate 20 µl and 200 µl of the transformation onto the dishes, and spread.
    10. You can pick a single colony, make a glycerol stock, grow up a cell culture and miniprep.

    Results

    Colonies seen on both plates.

    July 17th
    Goal

    to extract plasmid of PB19 from the transformed cells.

    Procedure

    1. Growth the cell overnight
    2. Centrifuge the tube for 15 minutes with 4000 rps
    3. Follow the standard protocol of Thermo Scientific miniprep kit
    4. Label the centrifuge tube and store it in the -20 freezer. (Syl mini prep)

    Results

    • Tube 1: 40 ng/ul
    • Tube 2: 30ng/ul

    Goal

    to digest the segment using AgeI and XbaI. Purify the digested product.

    Procedure

    Digest in the 37 degree incubator for 10 minutes using AgeI and XbaI.

    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water27.5 ul
    10x FD Buffer5 ul
    DNA12.5 ul
    AgeI2.5 ul
    Xbal2.5 ul
    Total Volume50 ul

    Purify following the protocol of digestion purification kit. Used warm NF water for diluting DNA at the last step

    Results

    Concentration after purification: 12.2 ng/ul

    July 23rd
    Goal

    : to achieve the great great goal of magnifying the RBS and promoter before digestion, purification and ligation.

    Procedure

    we did a nano drop of the mini prep plasmid, and it is 460ng/ul. The curve looks good. We diluted 1:500

    Results

    a fainted band was seen. However, the concentration after purification is below 5 ng/ul, too low to be used to ligation. Therefore, we decided to design the sequence as two oligos, with Xbal and Agel sticky ends.


    August

    August 4th
    Goal

    to dilute received oilgos, to Phosphorylate them, to Anneal them and to ligation is with Limonene vector

    Procedure

    1. Dilute the oilgo to 100 uM, the stock
    2. Take 10 ul out of the 100 uM stock and dilute to make 10 uM working stock
    3. Mix:
      • 2 uL 10 µM sense oligo
      • 2 uL 10 µM anti-sense oligo
      • 2 uL 10 x PNK (polynucleotide kinase) buffer A
      • 2 uL 10mM ATP
      • 1 uL T4 polynucleotide kinase (PNK)
      • 10 uL distilled water
      • to give 20 uL total volume
    4. Incubate at 37C for 30 mins
    5. Place in boiling water bath for 2 min, then remove water bath from the heat source and allow the reaction (still in the water bath) to cool to room temperature. (Labelled Annealing in the box)
    6. ligation
    7. Mix :
      • 8 ul of vector (12 ng/ul)
      • 1 ul of insert
      • 0.5 ul of ligase enzyme
      • 2 ul of ligase buffer
      • 8.5 ul of distilled water
      • total 20 ul
      • put under 22 degree for 30 minutes
      • put under 16 degree for 30 minutes
      • put in 4 degree overnight

    Results

    colonies were seen after transforming and plating.

    August 10th
    Goal

    to sequence the ligated plasmid for limonene construct

    Procedure

    • Dilute the mini prep product 1: 2 (Give us concentration 70ng/ul and 80ng/ul)
    • design primers that are about 200 bp away upstream and downstream from the inserted sequence
    • Send them to GATC

    Results

    It appears that the old plasmid recirculate itself.

    Further Steps

    regrow 6 more colonies, minipreped and did analytical PCR with NotI and AgeI Colony 1a appears to have the complete plasmid.

    August 20th
    Goal

    to PCR ilvBN gene from MG1655

    Procedure

    1. Picked 2 colonies from the plate MG1655 115+GFP
    2. Inoculate them each in 50 ul of NF H2O
    3. Boiled for 3 mins at 98 degree
    4. Use the solution as DNA template
    5. Follow standard PCR protocol from this step on
    ReagentVolume
    1x
    Nuclease-free water63 ul
    5x Phusion HF Buffer20 ul
    10 mM dNTPs2 ul
    Forward Primer (10 uM)5 ul
    Reverse Primer (10 uM)5 ul
    Template Plasmid1 ul
    Phusion DNA Polymerase1 ul
    DMSO3 ul
    Total Volume100 ul

    TemperatureTimeFunction
    start98 C30 secmelt
    cycle 198 C10 secmelt
    cycle 251 C30 secanneal
    cycle 372 C2 minextend
    finish72 C5 minextend
    blind10 Cforeverblind

    Results

    Band seen on both sample (from 2 colonies)

    August 21st
    Goal

    to Digest the PCR product (ilvBN) from yesterday and to digest pET-DUET1 as vector

    Procedure

    Vector (pET-DUET1)

    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water38 ul
    10x FD Buffer5 ul
    DNA 2 ul
    EcoRI2 ul
    NcoI2 ul
    FastAP1 ul
    Total Volume50 ul

    ilvBN

    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water39 ul
    10x FD Buffer5 ul
    DNA 2 ul
    EcoRI2 ul
    NcoI2 ul
    Total Volume50 ul

    Incubate at 37 degree for 2 hours. Purification using the PCR purification kit.

    Results

    24 ng/ul for C2 and 12 ng/ul for C1 (Will use C2 PCR purified product for digestion.)

    August 25th
    Goal

    to verify the insert of RBS and promoter is in the limonene biobrick part.

    Procedure

    digest

    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water19 ul
    10x FD Buffer3 ul
    DNA1 ul
    AgeI1 ul
    Xbal1 ul
    Total Volume25 ul

    (Miniprep concentration: 500 for N.1, 400 for N.2 and N.3) Expected length:
    3750 and 3740
    or 3840 and 3740

    Results

    (with 100bp plus DNA ladder)

    (the control sample didn’t get digested. Therefore, we can’t say for sure if the ligation worked. However, we decided to go ahead with sequencing and see the result.)

    August 26th
    Goal

    To ligate ilvBN gene with PETDUET 1

    Procedure
    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water 3 ul
    Ligase Buffer2 ul
    ligase 1 ul
    Insert(2132 bp, 10ng/ul)4 ul
    Vector(5381bp, 18ng.ul)10 ul
    Total Volume20 ul

    25 degree for 1 hour and then heat shock transformation.

    Results

    colonies seen. Picked 4 colonies for analytical digestion. Bands seen at expected length.

    August 27th
    Goal

    to ligate the aldB gblock with pSB1C3

    Procedure

    Digested and Purified PCR product, concentration: 40 ng/ul
    Digested and purified vector pSB1C3: 20 ng/ul

    ReagentVolume
    Nuclease-free water 10 ul
    Ligase Buffer2 ul
    ligase 1 ul
    Insert(2132 bp, 10ng/ul)4 ul
    Vector(5381bp, 18ng.ul)4.5 ul
    Total Volume20 ul

    20 degree for 5 hours, followed by heat shock transformation into NEB strain.

    Results

    Blurring band seen on gel after colony PCR, will process to mini prep and sequencing


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