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February 28, 2006

March 09, 2006

  • Q04400 inverter library in I13534.pSB1A2 (SP1.0) under a range of inductions (...details?) (uncalibrated) (calibrated)

March 15, 2006

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:
  • 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)
  • 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)

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July 14 mutagenic PCR, lanes left to right: 188 ng, 75 ng, 12.5 ng target DNA, 1.1 kb standard (100ng)
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July 18 gel of restriction digest (XP) of Q04720 library
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July 20 MoFlo run of library under no induction

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

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

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July 24 gel of restriction digests (XP) left-right, top-bottom (2 lanes per reaction): P1010.SP1.0, Q04400 library, Q04720 library, Reshma's QPI (C2002) library, Reshma's QPI (C2003) library

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
Ligations into SP1.0
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)
Plating Results
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
Plating Results
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
Ligations
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
Plating results
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)
Plating Results: Q04720 (miniprep)
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


Plating Results: Q04400 (mutagenic PCR)
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
Plating Results
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
  • forgot to put in warm rm, incubated at rm temperature for 1 hr instead but it seemed to work ok
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    on the left is 0.6 ul (out of 30 ul elution) of O/N, gel extracted backbone from August 10; on the right is 1 ul (out of 50 ul digest reaction) of 1 hr digest from today, not PCR cleaned yet
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on the left is <0.6 ul (out of 30 ul elution) of O/N, gel extracted backbone from August 10; on the right is 1 ul (out of 30 ul elution) of 1 hr, PCR cleaned digest from today (meant to do 0.6 ul)

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
plating, etc.
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
OD's
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
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    1ul of PCR reaction compared next to 1ul of 1:40 dilution of original single-stranded library (lanes alternate)
  • 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
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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
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same gel with longer UV exposure to help see the insert better







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)

Plating Results
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
Plating Results
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