Team:Brown/Notebook/June28

From 2010.igem.org

Monday, June 28 2010

Competent cells:

Overnight culture (from Sunday night)

Diluted 1:250 in 250 mL LB media

Incubate (shaking) 37°C until ~0.4 OD at 600 nm (3 to 4 hours).

    • Started at 10:50 AM

12:55 PM – Transformation of pGEM ligation product into XL1Blues.

Preparation of Agar Plates

Agar recipe – cook on hot plate

  • 10g NaCl
  • 10g tryptone
  • 5g yeast extract
  • 20g agar
  • Deionized water to a final volume of 1L
  1. Autoclave
  2. Let cool down, add Ampicillin to 100 µl/ml; mix well. (Add 1 ml amp at 100 mg/ml stock to 1L to get final concentration of 100 µg/ml.)
  3. Pour

Received our L. lactis from Ireland. 50 µl pPTPi, MG1614, and pPTPi in MG1614 (can act as a control)

Grown in M17 broth with 0.5% glucose, 6 µg/mL tetracycline at 30°C.