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Team:Groningen/5 July 2010
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Hydrophobofilm
pushing coatings into a greener future
Week 27
Arend Jan
The pMASK-EH construct is cut with EcoRI and SpeI to get the fragments containing the ChpE and ChpH genes and ligate them in to the expression plasmid. A mix of both genes will be used for ligation and the clones will be checked afterwards for which gene they contain.
- 10ul plasmid pNZ8901-bbs - 1.5ul buffer Tango - 0.5ul SpeI - 3ul MQ - perform digestion - add 1.88ul buffer Tango - add 0.5ul EcoRI - 17.5ul plasmid pMASK-EH - 2ul buffer Tango - 0.5ul SpeI - perform digestion - add 2.5ul buffer Tango - add 0.5ul EcoRI
Ligation of ChpE and ChpH into pNZ8901-bbs:
- 2/5ul backbone - 14/11ul insert (ChpE+H) - 2ul T4 buffer - 2ul T4 ligase
Colonies were picked, grown, and prepped for restriction checks (next week).
David
Surfaces coating with biofilm
To see how easily bacillus sub. can coat surfaces, different materials were placed in liquid TY medium with 0.5% glucose. Taking 12 wells plates adding 2ml liquid TY medium with 0.5% glucose. Inoculate wells in duplo with 20 microlitre of overnight culture of bacillus strains (ROK deg degU and sp0o). Than adding sterilized materials to the wells. Plastic: since the wells plates are made of plastic nothing was added to these wells Wood: untreated 1 cm diameter beech wood approx 2 cm cylindrical pieces, one piece per well Stainless steel: 3 mm thick approx 1,5cm by 3 cm pieces of stainless steel Steel: 8mm steel nails Ceramics: Broken up uneven pieces of red ceramics with a diameter averaging 1,5 cm Glass: standard microscopy cover slip Results The 12-wells plates were grown for four days at 37 degrees. Plastic: Some biofilm formation but no higher than 2 mm above the liquid medium surface. Wood: There was relative strong growth on the wood, especially the DegU strain grows very well on wood , while not covering the liquid/air interface. Rok also grew quite well but covered the hole well no only the wood. Ceramics: Strong growth of Rok and SpoO Glass: Similar coating as in plastic Stainless steel: No growth wat so ever in any strain Steel: Some growth in al the wells but, oxidation of the metal over the four days resulted in dark brown coloured indistinguishable wells.
