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A stab culture is made by inoculating bacteria into a vial containing LB agar with the appropriate antibiotic. After overnight incubation, bacterial growth should be visible both in the puncture and on the surface of the agar. Addgene recommends the following protocol for recovering plasmids. This protocol includes how to isolate a single colony from your stab culture, how to recover plasmid DNA, and how to make glycerol stocks for long-term storage.
Isolating a Single Colony
  1. Obtain an LB agar plate with the appropriate antibiotic.
  2. Using a sterile pipette tip, touch the bacteria growing within the punctured area of the stab culture. (A sterilized wire loop or sterile toothpick can be used in place of a sterile pipette tip.)
  3. Run this tip lightly over a section of the plate, as shown in the figure, to create streak #1.
  4. Using another sterile pipette tip, pass through streak #1 and spread the bacteria over a second section of the plate, to create streak #2.
  5. Using a third sterile pipette tip, pass through streak #2 and spread the bacteria over the last section of the plate, to create streak #3.
  6. Grow overnight in a 37oC incubator (unless a different growth temperature is indicated on the plasmid datasheet).
  7. In the morning, single colonies should be visible. If the bacterial growth is too dense, re-streak onto a new agar plate to obtain single colonies.
Recovering plasmid DNA
  1. Prepare liquid LB with the appropriate antibiotic. For minipreps, many people use 3 mL of culture.
  2. Using a sterile pipette tip, touch a single colony of bacteria from your agar plate.
  3. Inoculate the liquid LB by swirling the tip in it.
  4. Grow bacterial culture for ~16 hours in a 37oC shaking incubator (unless a different growth temperature is indicated on the plasmid datasheet).
  5. In the morning, bacterial growth should be visible. Centrifuge the culture to pellet the bacterial cells, then proceed with DNA preparation. Many companies (such as Qiagen) sell kits for isolating plasmid DNA.
Making glycerol stock for long-term storage
  1. Follow steps 1-4 under "Recovering plasmid DNA".
  2. The optimal concentration of glycerol for long-term storage is unknown. Most labs store bacteria in 15-25% glycerol. As an example, a 25% glycerol stock can be made by adding 500 μL of an overnight culture to 500 μL of 50% glycerol in a 2 mL screw top tube.
  3. Freeze the glycerol stock tube at -80oC.
Recipes
Luria Broth (LB) (500 mL):
This recipe will make 500 mL of LB media.
  1. Weigh ingredients below and add to 500 mL of distilled water in a bottle:
      5 g Tryptone
      2.5 g Yeast extract
      5 g NaCl
      500 mL H2O
  2. Cap bottle, but do not tighten.
  3. Autoclave using liquid cycle.
  4. Tighten lid and store at room temperature.
Luria agar plates (50):
This recipe will make about 50 plates (100 mm diameter).
  1. Weigh ingredients below and add to 1L of distilled water in a 2L flask:
      10 g Tryptone
      5 g Yeast extract
      10 g NaCl
      15 g Agar
      1 L H2O
  2. Cover flask tightly with foil.
  3. Autoclave using liquid cycle, then cool to 55oC.
  4. Add appropriate volume of antibiotic. (For example, add 1 mL of a 100 mg/mL ampicillin stock to obtain a final concentration of 100 μg/mL).
  5. Pour a thin layer of LB agar into each petri dish (about 20 mL), and cover with lid immediately.
  6. Let plates cool for a few hours or overnight.
  7. Store plates in plastic bag at 4oC.
50% glycerol (500 mL):
  1. Add 250 mL 100% glycerol to 250 mL distilled water in a bottle.
  2. Cap bottle, but do not tighten.
  3. Autoclave using liquid cycle.
  4. Tighten lid and store at room temperature.


==Introduction to Biobricks and Basic Cloning==
==Introduction to Biobricks and Basic Cloning==

Revision as of 14:06, 20 August 2009

Schwekendiek Lab - University of Northern Iowa



The material on this page has been "stolen" from Prof. John C. Anderson at UC Berkeley. I could as well just have linked to it, but I decided to copy it because I want to replace the content with my own. Since I know me, this will take forever. Updated tutorials will be marked with this icon . Until this happens, I hope John will keep his valuable pages online and the links working. If the links become dead, please let me know and will hurry replacing the information. Pages marked with are a "must read"!

The Basics

Think the "Central Dogma" involves a kennel of chihuahuas? You need to start here with the basics. The material in this section needs to be understood by everyone before starting lab work. It is essential. But I assume this knowledge is present from other courses and I won't go over it (except upon request).

Bare bones biochemistry

Basic Molecular Biology

Practical DNA

What is PCR?

[Working with bacterial colonies

Introduction to Biobricks and Basic Cloning

This tutorial is best used in conjunction with the sequence editor ApE. Read the section about ApE for a description of how to install it.

Installing ApE - this program is not required for the UNI course!

Overview of Cloning

Introduction to Biobricks

Introduction to Refactoring

Technical Design

Basic Oligo Design

Special Case: Single Internal Restriction Sites

Construction of short parts

Design of composite parts

Keeping track of construction files

Sequencing Analysis

Advanced Technical Design

Working with Translational Fusions

Circularly Permuted Proteins

The "what did they make" game

Implementation

Basic Gene Recombination

Introduction to Pathway Engineering

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Things you should know

Common Pitfalls and Tips

Origins of replication

The Critical Path

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