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February 28, 2006
- characterization of penI QPI in I13537.pSB1A3 with three replicates (replicate 1) (concatenated) (MATLAB analysis)
- rough measurement of original (unmutated) tetR inverter, Q04400 (one promoter SP1.0) (two promoter SP (I13537))
- empty screening plasmids at 0%, 1e-4%, and 3e-4% arabinose inductions
March 09, 2006
- Q04400 inverter library in I13534.pSB1A2 (SP1.0) under a range of inductions (...details?) (uncalibrated) (calibrated)
March 15, 2006
- first measurement of mutated tetR QPI Q04400.007 (obtained from inverter library) in SP1.0 (calibrated) (concatenated) (MATLAB analysis)
June 22, 2006
- tested everything in SP1.0 at 6 arabinose levels (0%-10-4%)
- Q04400.007 innoculated at OD 0.0005 and grew for ~10 hrs (picture) (MATLAB analysis)
- note: 10 hrs probably wasn't enough time for it to reach steady state esp. at high induction, assuming inverter was working better on July 11
- Q04740 exptl cultures grew too dense - performed an extra dilution and redid the innoculation - innoculated at OD 0.0005 and grew for ~14 hrs
- I14103 - grew very slowly - innoculated at OD 0.001 and grew for ~14 hrs (grew a little too dense)
June 29, 2006
- devices in SP1.0, six arabinose levels (0%-10-4%)
- Q04720 - innoculated at 0.0003 - grew ~15 hrs (too dense) (picture) (uncalibrated)
- Q04730 - innoculated at 0.0003 - grew ~16 hrs (too dense) (picture)
- during construction, a point mutation occurred in the ORF of the repressor protein (C0073) resulting in a change from Phe to Leu
- Q04740 - innoculated 0.0003 - grew ~16 hrs (too dense) - weirdness, where did GFP and RFP go?
- I14103 - innoculated at 0.0005 - grew ~15 hrs (too dense) (picture)
- I14104 - having trouble cloning this, have to wait on testing
July 6, 2006
- picture
- induced ~7 hrs at no and high induction
- the single red colony on a plate (probably got mixed with some white colony) from Q04740 in SP1.0 glycerol - got high RFP signal and GFP tracked induction - streaked this culture for July 11 testing
- one white colony from the same plate - GFP showed this time - background RFP
- empty SP1.0 - showed GFP and RFP
July 11, 2006

Colony PCR of Q04740 colonies, E0040F-E1010R. Two red and two white colonies. Region should be ~1.6 kb. Red colonies ~3 kb (transposable element jumped in). White colonies ~1.6 kb.
- grew to stationary, then diluted back 100x, grew for ~8 hrs (cultures were all very light except for the empty SP and Q04400.007), innoculated at ~11:30 p.m.
- devices in SP1.0, six arabinose levels (0%-10-4%)
- Reshma's constructs:
- B0030.C2002.B0015.p8 (A) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~14.5 hrs (picture) (uncalibrated)
- B0030.C2003.B0015.p8 (B) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~15 hrs (picture) (uncalibrated)
- clones from July 6's penI red no induction culture, streaked on plate:
- Q04740 red colony #1 (C) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~14.5 hrs (picture)
- Q04740 white (pink) colony #4 (D) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~14.5 hrs (picture)
- sequencing results: red colony had IS5 element jump in after the hairpin / before the prefix; white colony, when grown up/prepped/sequenced had a population with the insertion element in the same spot and a population without IS5
- i.e.: this isn't what we want
- empty SP1.0 (E) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~14.5 hrs (picture)
- Q04400.007 (F) - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew ~14.5 hrs (picture) (concatenated) (MATLAB analysis)
July 20, 2006
- everything except GFP only control (and negative control) in SP1.0
- grew overnight, diluted back 50x around 2 p.m., grew ~6 hrs
- at this point, the first 3 penI cultures (1,2,3) gave an OD of 0.00 (used 50 ul), the fourth (4) 0.05 (10 ul)
- Q04400 (40) OD = 0.01 (50 ul)
- Q01400 (14) OD = 0.16 (3.125 ul)
- put experimental cultures in at 9 p.m.
- Q04740 (from a plate from original glycerol) (no induction and 1e-4%) (picture)
- colony 1 - innoculated at ??? no OD reading - grew 16.5 hrs
- colony 2 - innoculated at ??? no OD reading - grew 16.5 hrs
- colony 3 - innoculated at ??? no OD reading - grew 16.5 hrs
- colony 4 - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew 16.5 hrs
- tetR inverters (started overnights from glycerols) (all 6 induction levels)
- Q04400 - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew 13.5 hrs (picture) (uncalibrated)
- Q01400 - innoculated at 0.0001 - grew 13.5 hrs (picture)
- GFP only control (I13522) - started overnight ~5 p.m. - harvest at 10:30 a.m. (picture)
- CW2553/pJat8 negative control - started overnight ~5 p.m. - harvest at 10:30 a.m.
July 14, 2006: trial library (mnt)
Day 1 (July 14): mutagenic PCR
- trying out mutagenic PCR on Q04720.pSB1AK3 (mnt) - the prep for this was taken from MC4100, so pJat8 isn't in there and I know how much DNA I'm adding
- Stratagene's GeneMorph® II Random Mutagenesis kit
- using VF2-VR (24 pmol each per 50 ul reaction)
- three 50 ul PCR reactions: (note, I goofed, meant to do 4x these amts so I could cover low-med-high mutation frequencies but forgot to take the vector into account)
- ~188 ng target DNA (medium range mutation freq)
- ~75 ng target DNA (medium range mutation freq)
- ~12.5 ng target DNA (high range mutation freq)
- PCR cleanup
Day 1.5 (July 17): restriction digest
- did overnight double digest (XP) on PCR reactions
Day 2 (July 18): ligation and transformation
- ran digest on a gel, did gel extraction - eluted into 30 ul EB total
- performed a 40-ul ligation reaction using all of the high range mut freq digest + 1 ul cut SP1.0
- dialyzed - after dialysis, total volume was 13 ul
- used 6 ul for a transformation that arced
- used 3 ul for a transformation that worked (~4 ul left over)
- dialyzed 40 ul of positive control (2 ng/ul?) - took 1 ul of the diaylzed plasmid and transformed it
- did a negative control electroporation with CW2553/pJat8
- grew in 1 mL SOB for 1.25 hrs
- plated 50 ul (1:20) of the experimental (AG), positive control (Amp, could have used AG in CW2553/pJat8), and negative control (AG) on antiobiotic plates
- plated 1:1e7 of expt'l and controls on LB only
- put the rest of the transformation 1 mL - 65 ul into 9 mL of supplemented M9 in baffled flasks around 7:30 or 8 p.m.
- put plates in the warm room around 9 p.m.
Day 3 (July 19): arabinose induction
- the 10 ml culture grew ~15-16 hours overnight: end OD = 0.27
- set up 25 ml experimental cultures at 0% and 1e-4% arabinose
- added 1 ml or 0.5 ml of overnight (4 flasks total)
- plate results:
- + control:
- 1:1e7 dilution on LB only = 11 colonies
- 1:20 dilution on LB+AG = lawn of cells --> replate with a 1:1e5 , 1:1e4
- - control:
- 1:1e7 on LB only = no colonies --> replate 1:1e5, 1:1e4
- 1:20 on LB+AG = no colonies
- Q04720 library:
- 1:1e7 on LB only = no colonies on LB only --> replate at 1:1e5, 1:1e4
- 1:20 on LB+AG = 1 colony
- + control:
Day 4 (July 20): MOFLO
- ran the no induction library culture on the MoFlo
- forgot about the high induction culture (ooops)
- replating results:
- + control: 1 colony on LB+AG at 1:1e4 dilution, none at 1:1e5 dilution
- - control: no colonies on LB only at 1e4 or 1e5
- Q04720 library: no colonies on LB only at 1e4 or 1e5
July 19, 2006: inverter libraries
Day 1 (July 19): mutagenic PCR
- started with 20 ng target DNA
- used VF2-VR
- inverters:
- Q04400
- Q04720 (also try BioBricks primers I ordered)
- Reshma QPI C2002
- Reshma QPI C2003
- BioBricks primers didn't work -- melting temp too high? ran at 45 C, ~20 C below Tm
Day 1.5 (July 20): restriction digest
- overnight restriction digest (XP) on all PCR reactions and on SP1.0 with P1010 insert
Day 2 (July 24): restriction digest cleanup
- separated inserts on a gel and extracted
- SP1.0 digest looked low, didn't use enough of the prep - didn't extract this
Day 2.5 (July 25): ligation and transformation
Ligations
- 20 ul ligations with 1 ul T4 DNA ligase and ~6:1 molar ratio insert:vector, assuming PCR insert ~17 ng/ul and vector ~25 ng/ul
library | insert | vector |
---|---|---|
Q04400 | 2 ul | 1.3 ul |
Q04720 | 1.5 ul | 1.7 ul |
Resh (C2002) | 1.5 ul | 1.7 ul |
Resh (C2003) | 1.5 ul | 1.7 ul |
mnt A | 4.6 ul | 5 ul |
mnt B | 1.5 ul | 1.7 ul |
mnt C | 0.46 ul | 0.5 ul |
- Q04400 library (6.7 ng DNA total)
- Q04720 library (6.7 ng DNA total)
- Reshma QPI C2002 (6.7 ng DNA total)
- Reshma QPI C2003 (6.7 ng DNA total)
- 20 ul ligations with old ~188 ng mnt library (July 14), probably ~4:1 molar ratio insert:vector since I used 1/4 of the PCR product for a gel
- 20 ng DNA total (max for efficiency range suggested by NEB)
- 6.7 ng DNA total
- 2 ng DNA total (min for efficiency range suggested by NEB)
Transformations
- Q04400: used 3 ul and it arced, used 1 ul that worked
- Q04720: used 1 ul worked
- Reshma QPI C2002: used 1 ul arced, 0.5 ul arced repeatedly, finally 0.25 ul worked
- Reshma QPI C2003: used 1 ul worked
- old mnt 20 ng (A): 1 ul arced, 0.5 ul worked
- old mnt 6.7 ng (B): 1 ul worked
- old mnt 2 ng (C): 1 ul worked
Plating
- plating on LB only:
- all 1:1e5
- plating on LB+AG:
- (+) 1:200
- (-) 1:20
- expt'l 1:20
Overnight cultures
- put the 1-mL SOC transformations into 25 mL supplemented M9 + AG at 9:40 p.m.
- initial OD for all cultures = 0.04, except Reshma's QPI C2002, which was 0.03
Day 3 (July 26): harvest cells
- at 9:25 a.m., OD ~0.19 (cultures all looked similar)
plate | (+) | (-) | Q04400 | Q04720 | Resh(C2002) | Resh(C2003) | mnt A | mnt B | mnt C |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LB+AG | 875 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
LB only | 1102 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 | ~1000 |
- since none of the libraries were very big, just took 1 mL of the overnight (grew ~15 hrs) and put on ice for the MOFLO
Day 4 (July 27): MOFLO
- ran all 7 libraries (no induction) and collected data (picture)
- sorted Q04400 (200 cells) and mnt A (150 cells) for high RFP into 1 mL M9
- put in 5 ml M9+AG, grew for >48 hrs (got very dense), and made 1 glycerol of each
Day 5 (August 6): second-round induction
- thawed glycerols, spun down, aspirated media, and added to 10 ml M9+AG
- grew for ~7 hrs, took OD's:
- Q04400 = 0.39 (made 1 glycerol, labeled L.Q04400.1)
- mnt A = 0.33 (made 1 glycerol, labeled L.Q04720C.1)
- innoculated 25 ml of M9+AG at 0% and 1e-4% arabinose with 20 ul of each culture (4 cultures total)
Day 6 (August 7): harvest
- Q04400: grew ~17 hrs, harvested 1 ml & put on ice
- 0% final OD = 0.06
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.07
- mnt A: grew ~12 hrs, harvested 1 ml & put on ice
- 0% final OD = 0.41
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.42
Day 7 (August 8): MoFlo
- looked at libraries under no induction again (see how well it sorted last time) and under 1e-4% arabinose, didn't sort (picture)
July 27, 2006: ligation controls
- (+) control:
- 1 ng straight electroporation (diluted in MilliQ H20)
- 20 ul "ligation" with 12 ng of pUC18 DNA and 1 unit (1:400 dilution) of T4 DNA ligase (2 hrs)
- (+) control single cut (PstI):
- 20 ul "ligation" with 12 ng of DNA and no ligase (2 hrs)
- 20 ul ligation with 12 ng of DNA and 10 units (1:40 dilution) of T4 DNA ligase (2 hrs)
- 20 ul ligation with 12 ng of DNA and 1 unit of T4 DNA ligase (30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hrs)
- mnt library:
- PCR insert from July 19 cut XP (~17 ng/ul? did QiaQuick gel extraction and nanodrop gave ~23 ng/ul)
- SP1.0 vector from an XP digest that was extracted using Qiaex II kit (nanodrop gave ~9.3 ng/ul)
- used 2.3 ul insert and 6.7 ul vector for every ligation, which is maybe ~6:1 ratio insert:vector, ~100 ng DNA total
- 20 ul ligation with ~100 ng DNA and 1 unit of T4 DNA ligase (30 mins, 1 hr, 2 hrs)
- used MilliQ H20 for ligation reactions
- dialyzed 30 mins
- electroporated with 0.75 ul of dialyzed ligation
- (+) uncut with 1 unit ligase I accidentally drowned - electroporated 2 ul of this
- mnt 30 min ligation arced, worked 2nd time
- (+) PstI with 10 units ligase arced, worked 2nd time
- plating
- LB only: 1:1e6
- LB+AG: 1:20, except 1:200 for uncut (+) control
plate | (+) | (+) | (+) PstI | (+) PstI | (+) PstI | (+) PstI | (+) PstI | mnt | mnt | mnt |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
amt ligase | N/A | 1 unit | 0 units | 10 units | 1 unit | 1 unit | 1 unit | 1 unit | 1 unit | 1 unit |
time | 120 min | 120 min | 120 min | 120 min | 30 min | 60 min | 120 min | 30 min | 60 min | 120 min |
LB+AG | 972 | 123 (drowned) | 64 | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | 0 | 2 | 0 |
LB only | 131 | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same | <--about same |
July 31, 2006: more ligation (mnt library)
- used the Q04720 library made on July 19
- 20-ul ligations with 10 units (1:40 dilution) of ligase per reaction
- forgot to use MilliQ H20
- also did a 10-ul ligation using 8.5 ng of cut (+) control (not gel extracted)
- note: the numbers for the insert:vector ratio and the max library size below are calculated based on assuming I'm adding cut insert at ~27 ng/ul and cut vector at ~9 ng/ul -- I have no idea how accurate these numbers are
insert | vector | ratio | max library size |
---|---|---|---|
0.2 ul | 1 ul | ~6 | ~1.6e9 |
2 ul | 1 ul | ~60 | ~1.6e9 |
16 ul | 1 ul | ~470 | ~1.6e9 |
1.25 ul | 4 ul | ~9 | ~6e9 |
- let ligation go for 30 min before heat inactivating
- dialyzed ligations for 30 min
- electroporated 1 ul of dialyzed ligation into CW2553/pJat8
- ran out of electrocompotent cells, only transformed using 0.2 ul, 2 ul, and 16 ul (insert amt) ligations
- plating
- LB only: 1:1e6
- LB+AG: 1:20
- put the rest of the 1 mL SOC transformation into 25 mL M9+AG and grew overnight
plate | 0.2 ul insert | 2 ul insert | 16 ul insert |
---|---|---|---|
LB only | 230 | <--about same | <--about same |
LB+AG | 1 | 2 | 2 |
August 01, 2006: electrocompetent cells
- made new electrocompetent CW2553/pJat8 (~45 tubes, 40-ul aliquots)
- final OD at 1:100 dilution = 0.56
- stock at ~3e10 cells/ml --> ~1.2e9 cells per 40 ul tube
- (+) control transformation:
- LB+AG (1:2000 dilution) = 155 colonies
- LB only (1:1e6 dilution) = 258 colonies
- survival rate = 21.5%
- transformation efficiency: 3.1x108 transformants / ug DNA
- transformation frequency: 9.13x10-4 transformants / molecule DNA
August 03, 2006: ligations again
- vector: SP1.0 (20-ul XP digest with 1.5 ug DNA, gel extracted and eluted with 30 ul EB)
- insert:
- (A) Q04720 (20-ul XP digest with 1.5 ug DNA, gel extracted and eluted with 30 ul EB)
- (B) Q04400 (~20 ng target DNA mutagenic PCR VF2-VR, cleanup with 30 ul EB, 50-ul XP digest, gel extracted and eluted with 30 ul EB)
- ligation with 400 units (no dilution) of ligase in 20-ul reaction for ~30 min
- ligations with the following vector+insert amts (18 total reactions, A1-A9 and B1-B9):
0.02 ul vector | 0.2 ul vector | 2.0 ul vector | |
---|---|---|---|
0.02 ul insert | 1 | 2 | 3 |
0.2 ul insert | 4 | 5 | 6 |
2.0 ul insert | 7 | 8 | 9 |
- 30 min dialysis
- electroporation with 1 ul dialyzed ligation
- plating:
- LB only = 1:1e6
- LB+AG = 1:20 (50 ul)
LB+AG | 0.02 ul vector | 0.2 ul vector | 2.0 ul vector | LB only | 0.02 ul vector | 0.2 ul vector | 2.0 ul vector | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.02 ul insert | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.02 ul insert | ||||
0.2 ul insert | 0 | 0 | 12 (drowned) | 0.2 ul insert | 363 | |||
2.0 ul insert | 2 | 0 | 158 | 2.0 ul insert | 229 |
LB+AG | 0.02 ul vector | 0.2 ul vector | 2.0 ul vector | LB only | 0.02 ul vector | 0.2 ul vector | 2.0 ul vector | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.02 ul insert | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.02 ul insert | ||||
0.2 ul insert | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0.2 ul insert | smeared | |||
2.0 ul insert | 1 | 0 | 23 | 2.0 ul insert | 323 |
- plan: use more DNA!
August 04, 2006: inverter libraries
Preparation of vector
- three 50-ul XP digests of SP1.0+P1010 with 5.5 ug of DNA in each
- two gel lanes per digest
- one spin column (max binding capacity is 10 ug) for every two lanes
- try to keep agarose under 400 mg
- elute all three columns with the same 30 ul of EB
- use 8.5 ul of eluted digest in ligation
Preparation of insert
- mutagenic PCR on Q04720.pSB1A2 / Q04400.pSB2K3 / B0030.C2002.B0015.p8.pSB1AC3 / B0030.C2003.B0015.p8.pSB1AC3
- initial amt target DNA = 20 ng
- PCR cleanup and elution with 30 ul EB; nanodrop:
- Q04720 PCR reaction #1 = 120.7 ng/ul
- Q04720 PCR reaction #2 = 110.6 ng/ul
- Q04400 PCR reaction = 62.5 ng/ul, looked bad, contamination?
- C2002 QPI PCR reaction = 120.5 ng/ul
- C2003 QPI PCR reaction = 124.3 ng/ul
- 50-ul digest with all 30 ul of PCR product
- Q04720#1: PCR cleanup, elute with 30 ul, use 8.5 ul in ligation
- Q04720#2: gel extraction, elute with 30 ul, use 8.5 ul in ligation
- Q04400: PCR cleanup, elute with 30 ul (haven't used)
- C2002 QPI: PCR cleanup, elute with 30 ul, use 8.5 ul in ligation
- C2003 QPI: PCR cleanup, elute with 30 ul, use 8.5 ul in ligation
Ligation
- 8/5/06: Q04720#1 and Q04720#2 ligations & transformations
- 2 ul 10X T4 DNA ligase buffer
- 8.5 ul vector digest
- 8.5 ul insert digest
- 1 ul (400 units) T4 DNA ligase
- 8/6/06: C2002 QPI and C2003 QPI ligations & transformations
- 2 ul 10X T4 DNA ligase buffer
- 4.4 ul vector digest (all I had left)
- 8.5 ul insert digest
- 1 ul (400 units) T4 DNA ligase
- H20 to 20 ul
- note: if the estimated efficiencies of previous steps are correct, this amt of DNA should be below 200 ng, the maximum recommended by NEB
- used 3 ul of dialyzed ligation product (recovered ~10-15 ul from dialysis) for transformations
Transformation
- put on ice after electroporation for a few minutes before moving to 37 C, as per Knight lab protocol
- after 1 hr incubation, added 25 ml M9+AG and grew ~17 hrs overnight (~12 hrs for Reshma's QPI's)
- plating:
- LB only = 1:1e6
- LB+AG = 1:20
Q04720#1 (PCR cleanup) | Q04720#2 (gel extraction) | C2002 QPI | C2003 QPI | |
---|---|---|---|---|
LB only | smeared, maybe ~600? | 164 | 304 | 269 |
LB+AG | lots | 171 | smeared | smeared |
- replate Q04720#1
- LB only = 1:1e7 --> none, maybe serial dilution went bad in 4 C overnight
- LB+AG = 3:1000 (plate 3 ul of original transformation) --> 47 colonies
- replate C2002 QPI and C2003 QPI, LB+AG = 1:200
- C2002 QPI --> ~83 colonies, cells were clumpy
- C2003 QPI --> ~247 colonies, cells were clumpy
Library size
- Q04720#1 = 1.5e4
- Q04720#2 = 3.4e3
- C2002 QPI = 1.6e4
- C2003 QPI = 4.9e4
Induction
- made 3 glycerols of both of Reshma's QPI libraries from the overnight cultures (labeled L.C2002.0 and L.C2003.0, note: not part names, names of the repressor protein)
- spun down overnight cultures, aspirate off SOC/M9 media, resuspend in 10 ml M9, took OD's:
- Q04720#1 = 0.41
- Q04720#2 = 0.43
- C2002 QPI = 0.42
- C2003 QPI = 0.38
- added 1 ml of resuspension to 10 ml M9+AG (should be more than enough cells to cover our library size at this OD)
- grew ~7-8 hrs, took OD's:
- Q04720#1 = 0.29 (made 3 glycerols of this labeled L.Q04720A.0)
- Q04720#2 = 0.40 (made 1 glycerol of this labeled L.Q04720B.0)
- C2002 QPI = 0.14
- C2003 QPI = 0.17
- innoculated 25 ml M9+AG at 0% and 1e-4% arabinose with 50 ul of each culture
- Q04720#1: grew ~12 hrs, harvested 1 ml
- 0% final OD = 0.44
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.46
- Q04720#2: grew ~12 hrs, harvested 1 ml
- 0% final OD = 0.58
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.57
- C2002 QPI: grew ~13 hrs
- 0% final OD = 0.50
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.54
- C2003 QPI: grew ~13 hrs
- 0% final OD = 0.60
- 1e-4% final OD = 0.60
MoFlo
- collected data for all 4 libraries (picture)
- sorted into 1 ml M9
- C2002 low in/high out (66 cells), high in/low out (230 cells)
- C2003 low in/high out (985 cells)
- Q04720 #1 low in/high out (983 cells), high in/low out (1100 cells)
- Q04720 #2 low in/high out (1118 cells)
Second round
- added the collected cells to 5 ml M9+AG, plus the same arabinose condition under which they were sorted
- grew overnight and throughout the day until cultures were dense (OD roughly 0.3)
- put 1 ml samples on ice (just looking at these samples to see how well they sorted)
- for C2002 QPI sorted low in/high out (~66 cells), added 10 ul to a new 5 ml culture at 1e-4% arabinose
MOFLO
- results
- the ~66 cell sublibrary of C2002 QPI looked all negative fluoresence at no and high induction --> gate too stringent?
- sorted Q04720#1 low in/high out (>1000 cells) and high in/low out (~750 cells) under the same conditions, trying to tighten up the sublibraries
August 09, 2006
Restriction Digests
- overnight digests of:
- P1010 in SP1.0, XP, 10 ug
- B0032.C2002.B0015 in SP1.0, SP, 10 ug
- B0030.C2003.B0015 in SP1.0, SP, 10 ug
- Q04740 library, XP, 3.5 ug (all of PCR product)
- Q04400 library, XP, 2.4 ug (all of PCR product)
- gel extraction of SP1.0 backbone
- PCR cleanup of the rest, into 30 ul EB
August 22, 2006
Day 1 (Aug 22)
Restriction Digests
- 1 hr, 50 ul digests with 1 ul each enzyme
- P1010 in SP1.0, XP, 10 ug (PCR clean only, to be compared to O/N digest & gel extracted backbone)
- x2 --> using a lot of the vector (8.5 ul per ligation)
- DNA concentration after PCR cleanup = 328 ng/ul
- P1010 in SP1.0, XP, 10 ug (PCR clean only, to be compared to O/N digest & gel extracted backbone)
- forgot to put in warm rm, incubated at rm temperature for 1 hr instead but it seemed to work ok
Ligations
- compare undiluted (400 units of ligase) and 1:10 dilution of T4 DNA ligase for Q04720
- for all others use the 1:10 dilution --> 40 units of ligase
- digests from August 8 (PCR cleaned only)
- C2002 QPI library (97.8 ng/ul)
- C2003 QPI library (96.7 ng/ul)
- Q04720 library #1 (93.2 ng/ul)
- digests from August 10 (PCR cleaned only)
- Q04400 library (71.1 ng/ul)
- Q04740 library (109.2 ng/ul)
- use 8.5 ul of digested insert + 8.5 ul vector
- 6 total reactions
- >30 min incubation at rm temp
- heat inactivation 65 C for 10 min
- dialysis for 30 min
Transformations
- electroporated 3 ul of dialyzed ligation reaction and incubated 1 hr
- plating:
- LB+AG = 50 ul (1:20 dilution)
- LB only = 1:1e6 dilution
Day 2 (Aug 23)
- spun down the library O/N cultures and resuspended in 10 ml of M9, took OD's
- undiluted ligase had ~3.5x more transformants --> proceed with this, throw out the other Q04720 library
library | LB only | LB+AG | OD | lib size | x lib size | innoc. vol |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Q04720 (undil.) | 167 | 438x4 | 0.34 | 3.5e4 | 60 | 13 ul* |
Q04740 | 128 | 777 | 0.33 | 1.6e4 | 60 | 6 ul |
Q04400 | 174 | 162 | 0.37 | 3.2e3 | 275 | 5 ul |
Q04720 (dil.) | 142 | 505 | N/A | 1.0e4 | N/A | N/A |
C2003 QPI | 100 | 231 | 0.23 | 4.6e3 | 200 | 9 ul |
C2002 QPI | 179 | 378 | 0.34 | 7.6e3 | 125 | 6 ul |
- innoculated into 50 ml expt'l cultures, low & high induction, except Q04720 library into 100 ml cultures
- grew overnight at 37 C
Day 3 (Aug. 24): MoFlo
- harvested 1 ml from libraries after 16.5 hrs
Q04400 | Q04720 | C2003 QPI | C2002 QPI | Q04740 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0% | 0.02 | 0.36 | 0.33 | 0.09 | 0.31 |
1e-4% | 0.03 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.11 | 0.30 |
- picture (calibrated)
- sorted Q04400 library under 0% arabinose (~6,000 cells)
- sorted Q04740 library under 0% arabinose (~10,000 cells)
- sorted Q04740 library under 1e-4% arabinose (~8,000 cells)
- sorted into 1 ml of M9+AG, put into warm room at noon
- also looked at 2 colonies of Q04740 in SP1.0 (obtained from stock plate) that had been grown directly from plate for ~24 hrs (growing very slowly, took this long to achieve a a good density) (picture)
- put what's left of the 5 ml cultures back into warm room to prep/sequence
Day 4 (Aug. 25)
- grew sorted cells ~22 hrs, added 5 ml M9+AG, put into warm rm at 10:30 a.m.
- took out at 5 p.m.
- OD's:
- Q04740 sorted low in/high out = 0.31
- Q04740 sorted high in/low out = 0.29
- Q04400 sorted low in/high out = 0.32
- made 2 glycerols of each, put rest in fridge
- (I think...)
- Q04740 low in/high out labeled L.Q04740.1.0
- Q04740 high in/low out labeled L.Q04740.1.1
- Q04400 low in/high out labeled L.Q04400.1.0
Day 5 (Aug. 28)
- innoculated experimental cultures with ~9e5 cells into 50 ml M9+AG (0% and 1e-4% arabinose) using libraries stored in the fridge over the weekend (6 ul of the library into each culture, OD's were about the same as on Aug. 25)
- 5 p.m.
- sequencing of Q04740 in SP1.0 colony#1 all came up OK (VF2, VR, E0040F, E0040R, E1010F, E1010R)
- a point mutation present in pSB1A2 backbone (pMB1 replication origin)--also showed up in sequencing for I14103 and all other times I sequenced Q04740 in SP1.0 with E1010F--probably came from a stock of SP1.0--don't know if this affects anything
Day 6 (Aug. 29): MoFlo
- grew sublibraries ~17 hrs
- OD's came up around 0.52
- moflo run
- sorted L.Q04400.1.0 for high in/low out --> L.Q04400.1.0.1
- 7268 cells
- grew in 1 ml M9+AG until next day
Day 7 (Aug. 30)
- added 5 ml to the sublibrary, grew ~7.5 hrs
- OD = 0.83
- made 1 glycerol: L.Q04400.1.0.1
- added 1.4e6 cells to 25ml experimental cultures (0%, 1e-4%)
August 28, 2006: Reshma's promoter libraries
- double-stranded library oligos (25 pmol each)
- L.RS.P8
- L.RS.P9
- L.RS.R2000
- saved 1 ul (out of 100 ul PCR reaction) for gel analysis
- PCR cleaned the rest into 30 ul EB
Restriction Digests (August 29)
- 20min, 37 C restriction digests on libraries (XP), heat inactivation
- PCR cleanup & elution into 30ul
- L.RS.P8 = 42.1ng/ul * 30ul
- L.RS.P9 = 41.5ng/ul * 30ul
- L.RS.R2000 = 39.6ng/ul * 30ul
- backbones from August 09: cut SP
- B0032.C2002.B0015 in SP1.0 = 319.9ng/ul * 30ul
- B0030.C2003.B0015 in SP1.0 = 300.5ng/ul * 30ul
- used 1ul of these samples for gel analysis
Ligation
- 6 ligation reactions with 8.5ul insert + 8.5ul vector
- undiluted ligase (1ul) in 20ul reaction volume
- messed up with L.RS.P8 into C2002 backbone reaction --> had to bump up the volume to 47ul, but there's still just 1ul ligase
- 30min rm temp incubation, heat inactivation
- save 1ul for gel analysis
- dialysis 30min

comparisons of restriction digests, ligations, and dialyzed ligations (1ul volumes of each); left to right: C2002 backbone (SP), C2003 backbone (SP), P8 libary (XP), P9 library (XP), R2000 library (XP), P8/C2002 ligation, P8/C2002 dialysis, P9/C2002 ligation, P9/C2002 dialysis, R2000/C2002 ligation, R2000/C2002 dialysis, P8/C2003 ligation, P8/C2003 dialysis, P9/C2003 ligation, P9/C2003 dialysis, R2000/C2003 ligation, R2000/C2003 dialysis
Transformation
- electroporated 3ul, except for the one I messed up, did 6.3ul for that one
- on ice, then incubate at 37 C for 1hr
- plated:
- LB+AG 1:40 dilution (25ul of transformation directly)
- LB only 1:1e6 dilution
- added 10ml M9+AG, grew overnight ~12.5 hrs
Library sizes (August 30)
library | LB+AG | LB only | library size |
---|---|---|---|
P8/C2002 | 1391x2 | 305 | 1.1e5 |
P9/C2002 | 353x8 | 185 | 1.1e5 |
R2000/C2002 | 411x8 | 177 | 1.3e5 |
P8/C2003 | 385x8 | 178 | 1.2e5 |
P9/C2003 | 515x8 | 194 | 1.6e5 |
R2000/C2003 | 512x8 | 156 | 1.6e5 |
Induction
- spun down, resuspended in M9+AG
library | OD |
---|---|
P8/C2002 | 0.53 |
P9/C2002 | 0.45 |
R2000/C2002 | 0.49 |
P8/C2003 | 0.43 |
P9/C2003 | 0.43 |
R2000/C2003 | 0.34 |
- made glycerols (labeled with L.RS.P8/P9/R2000 and B0032.C2002.B0015/B0030.C2003.B0015)
- added 1.6e6 cells to 25ml experimental cultures (0%, 1e-4%)
- this is about 10x the library sizes
MOFLO
- fire alarm at flow cytometry center, no data :(
- libraries didn't seem to have working clones