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Team:Cambridge/Gibson/Protocol
From 2010.igem.org
The formal paper in nature describing Gibson Assembly can be found [http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n5/full/nmeth.1318.html here].
Step 1: Design Primers
If you wish to ligate two pieces of DNA using Gibson they must be altered so as to have 40bp of overlap at the point of ligation.
The standard way to do this is with PCR with specialised primers. We have designed a tool to help you do this: [http://www.gibthon.org Gibthon]
Step 2: Order Primers
This step can take a while, so Gibson Assembly requires some planning ahead
Step 3: PCR
PCR is a bit of a dark art, but we have found that these general principles have served us well over the summer.
| Step | Temp | Time |
| 1:Initial Melting | 98°C | 30s |
| 2:Melting | 98°C | 10s |
| 3:Annealing | Tm°C | 15s |
| 4:Elongation | 72 | 45s per kb DNA |
| 5:GoTo step 2 | 30 times | |
| 6:Final Elongation | 72°C | 7m30 |
| 7:Final Hold | 4°C | ∞ |
| Assembly Method | Number of steps to ligate N pieces of DNA |
| Standard Assembly | 
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| Parallel Assembly |  (rounded up)
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| Gibson Assembly | 
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The Annealing Tm that should be used is the temperature of the main 20 or so bases of the primer (not including the flap), since the flap only begins to anneal after the first few cycles, by which point primer specificity is less of an issue.
The Polymerase mixture we used was [http://www.finnzymes.com/pcr/phusion_high_fidelity_pcr_mastermix.html 2x Phusion MasterMix].
Step 4: Gibson Assembly
1) Prepare Gibson Master Mix
2) Add DNA to be ligated and Master Mix in volumetric ratio 1:3
3) Incubate for 1 hour at 50°C
e.g. If you were ligating two fragments (A and B) you could put:
| 2.5µl | fragment A |
| 2.5µl | fragment B |
| 15µl | Gibson Master Mix |
Step 5: Transformation
The reaction mixture generated above should contain enough DNA to directly transform cells, although this is of course limited by the amount of DNA in the tube before the ligation.
