User:Jorge Arturo Zepeda/Notebook/iGem LCG-UNAM team 2010/2010/05/04

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Tuesday 4th May 2010
I performed two transformations (with negative and positive controls) by heat shock with competent cells from Miguel’s lab.


 * TetR repressible promoter (BBa_R0040), witch is in the Kit plate 1, well 6I from the 2009 distribution. It is on plasmid pSB1A2 resistant to ampicillin.


 * Pops-> TetR[S0151], from Kit Plate 1, well 10I. It is on plasmid pSB1A2 resistant to ampicillin.


 * Positive control: Luciferase (Mariana) with resistant to kanamycin but not to ampicillin.


 * Negative control: No DNA just the competent cells.

When extracting the DNA from the 2009 distribution I was a little confused and I added 40 ul of water to well 10I and 20 for well 6I, that’s why when transforming I added 10 instead of 5 ul for the 10I tranformation.

Heat shock transformation:

 * Take 50ul of competent cells from Miguel’s lab frozen at -70ºC, out of a 100ul eppendorf into a new one (sterilized), then I add 5ul of the DNA and put into ice for 20 minutes.


 * After that give it a heat shock at 42 ºC for one minute, then put it in ice for another 5 minutes.


 * Now grow it in 1ml of liquid LB medium with no antibiotic and shaking for one hour.


 * Then centrifuge for 1 minute at 13 rpm and keep the pellet with 100ul, now plate those 100ul in a petri box with ampicillin using the triangle and put them in the incubator at 37ºC overnight.

Note: when extracting DNA from the iGem kit plates add 15ul of water, NO more!!!


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