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Amplification of Pspac_oid promoter by PCR

Aim

The aim of this experiment is to amplify the Pspac_oid promoter fragment from plasmid pMutin4 for the construction of rocF BioBrick using Phusion PCR.

Materials and Protocol

Please refer to PCR for Phusion PCR protocol. The details for the 4 PCR reactions are mentioned below:

PCR

Tube Part to be amplified DNA fragment consisting the part Forward primer Reverse Primer Melting Temperature (Tm in °C) Size of the fragment (in bp) Extension time* (in seconds)
1 Pspacoid Promoter pMutin4 P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 58 106 approx. 15
2 Pspacoid Promoter pMutin4 P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 59 106 approx. 15

Table 1: Table represents 4 different Phusion PCR reactions for the amplification of Pspac_oid promoter, so that it can be ligated together with other fragments for the construction of rocF with the help of Gibson Cloning method.

  • The extension rate of the Phusion polymerase is 1Kb/ 30 seconds. Therefore the extension time of each PCR reaction is different.
  • To learn more about the rocF fragments, please refer to the Cloning strategy for rocF.

Discussion

For the gel electrophoresis results, please refer to the bottom section.


Amplification of Pspac_oid promoter by PCR

Aim

The aim of this experiment is to amplify the Pspac_oid promoter fragment from plasmid pMK-RQ containing Biobrick kinA and plasmid pMK-RQ containing stochastic switch developed by Team Newcastle 2009 for the construction of rocF BioBrick using Phusion PCR.

Materials and Protocol

Please refer to PCR for Phusion PCR protocol. The details for the 2 PCR reactions are mentioned below:

PCR

Tube Part to be amplified DNA fragment consisting the part Forward primer Reverse Primer Melting Temperature (Tm in °C) Size of the fragment (in bp) Extension time* (in seconds)
1 Pspacoid Promoter Plasmid containing kinA P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 58 106 approx. 15
2 Pspacoid Promoter Plasmid containing kinA P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 59 106 approx. 15
3 Pspacoid Promoter Plasmid containing stochastic switch P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 58 106 approx. 15
1 Pspacoid Promoter Plasmid containing stochastic switch P1P1 forward P2P1 reverse 59 106 approx. 15

Table 2: Table represents 2 different Phusion PCR reactions for the amplification of Pspac_oid promoter, so that it can be ligated together with other fragments for the construction of rocF with the help of Gibson Cloning method.

  • The extension rate of the Phusion polymerase is 1Kb/ 30 seconds. Therefore the extension time of each PCR reaction is different.
  • To learn more about the rocF fragments, please refer to the Cloning strategy for rocF.

Discussion

For the gel electrophoresis results, please refer to the bottom section.


Gel Electrophoresis for the amplified Pspac_oid promoter

Aim

The aim of the experiment is to perform gel electrophoresis for the two PCR reactions Pspac_oid promoter amplified from plasmid pMutin4 and from plasmid pMK-RQ containing Biobrick kinA and plasmid pMK-RQ containing stochastic switch developed by Team Newcastle 2009.

Materials and Protocol

Please refer to: Gel electrophoresis.

Result

Newcastle 090810 gel 2.png

Figure 1: Gel electrophoresis of the lacI and Pspac_oid promoter.

  • Lane 1: 100bp DNA ladder
  • Lane 2: Plamid pMutin4 containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 3: Plamid pMutin4 containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 4: Plamid pMK-RQ (kinA BioBrick) containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 5: Plamid pMK-RQ (kinA BioBrick) containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 6: Plamid pMK-RO (stchastic switch BioBrick) containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 7: Plamid pMK-RO (stchastic switch BioBrick) containing Pspac_oid promoter
  • Lane 8: 100bp DNA ladder
Pspac_oid pormoter
Size of the Fragment (in bp) 148 approx.

Table 3: Table represents the size of the Pspac_oid fragment represented as bands on the gel in all the lanes.

Discussion

We found two bands in the all lanes out of which one is of approximately of 150 bp is size and the other band is of 80 bp approximately in size.

Conclusion

This experiment shows that the PCR reaction was not perfectly successful for the Pspac_oid fragment. The problem is that there are 2 fragments on the gel instead of 1 and the second band which of 80bp in size might be corresponding to primer dimers. When we checked the primer sequence again, we found that there is a high complementarity within the primers itself and thus the amplification of the Pspac_oid fragment is not taking place at a desired rate. The first band present on the gel can be of the Pspac_oid fragment and thus tomorrow 10th August, 2010, we would be doing gel extraction for the fragment and will check whether these fragments are of Pspac_oid or not.

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