IGEM:University of Chicago/2009/Notebook/Paraoxon Biosensor/2009/06/30

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=June 30, 2009= 10mL of YPD media+.2μL overnight culture
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 * Inoculated YPD media with overnight culture, 1:50 dilution
 * Overnight culture OD=1.754 (wavelength 660nm)
 * DNA wasn't ready so didn't make competent cells today. Can leave O/N culture out until we're ready to use it (hopefully tomorrow)

PCR
Gel 1: 1 kb Ladder, -DNA, -Enz, 035, 139, 049, 186 Gel 2: 1 kb Ladder, -DNA, -Enz, 213, 236, 346
 * Ran 1.2% agarose gel of overnight PCR products



Magnesium gradient 0: 4.5μL ddH2O, 0μL 20mM MgCl 1: 3.5μL ddH2O, 1μL 20mM MgCl 2: 2.5μL ddH2O, 2μL 20mM MgCl 4: 3μL  ddH2O, 2μL 20mM MgCl Total: =4.5μL H20/MgCl solution/20μL reaction
 * We see a band at 2.5kb as expected, but we also have a funky band between 1kb and 850bp. Will gel purify 2.5kB band, rerun PCR with some of the purified product, transform with the rest.
 * Funky band seems to indicate mispriming, although we're not quite sure of what (probably a fragment of the 2.5kb Longtine part?)
 * Will try raising the temperature of PCR, using a MgCl gradient (0, 1, 2, 4) to see if different conditions will select for 2.5kb band.


 * Again if this doesn't make sense it's because we haven't yet realized our recipe is weird. Please see protocols and/or notebook entry for 7/1 for the correct PCR reaction recipe
 * Run PCR with elongation temperature raised to 62C
 * -DNA and -pol controls (only one set for entire PCR)

Gel Purification
035 = 11.9 μg/mL 139 = 8.72μg/mL 049 = 3.1 μg/mL 186 = 11.56μg/mL 213 = 8.12 μg/mL 236 = 25.8 μg/mL 346 = 10.22μg/mL
 * Gel purification (Damon) of suspected product band from PCR on 6/29 (See protocols for exact procedure)
 * Gel cast on two teeth of the comb taped together to create bigger wells, also under aluminum foil
 * Used 5mL SybrSafe in 100mL agarose (1.2%) because we ran out
 * Preheated water ath to 50°C.
 * Concentrations of gel-purified products (using Qubit fluorometer)
 * Definitely enough for PCR and/or transformations
 * Will do PCR on 7/1


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