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Alkane Sensing, Solvent Tolerance, Salt Tolerance, Emulsifier

by Pieter

We found it remarkable that the only positive samples we found so far were from the series without preamplifying the insert by PCR (e.g. the AlkS). This is why we decided to retry the insertion of bbc1, PhPFDalpha and PhPFDbeta in J61101, but this time without PCRing the insert.

Digestion

For the assembly of BBa_K398101, BBa_K398205, BBa_K398206, BBa_K398402 and BBa_K398403 a digestion was done:

#	Sample	Enzyme 1	Enzyme 2	Enzyme 3	Buffer	BSA	Needed fragment
1	1 μg bbc1	XbaI	PstI	ScaI	2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘X – bbc1 - P’
2	1 μg PhPFDalpha	XbaI	PstI	ScaI	2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘X – PhPFDalpha - P’
3	1 μg PhPFDbeta	XbaI	PstI	ScaI	2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘X – PhPFDbeta - P’
4	1 μg J61101	SpeI	PstI		2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘S – J61101 - P’
5	1 μg OprG-B0015	XbaI	PstI		2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘X – OprG-B0015 - P’
6	1 μg AlnA-B0015	XbaI	PstI		2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘X – AlnA-B0015 - P’
7	1 μg R0011-B0032 (sample 9)	SpeI	PstI		2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘S – R0011-B0032 - P’
8	1 μg R0011-B0032 (sample 10)	SpeI	PstI		2 (Biolabs)	✓	‘S – R0011-B0032 - P’

Alkane degradation

Today we started with a PCR of a number colonies from yesterday's transformants. These had all given colonies on the plates, so hopefully they also contain the BioBricks! Five colonies from each plate were taken for the colony PCR, and after the PCR the products were analyzed on two gels.

Lane description

#	Description	Primers	Expected length (bp)	✓	✗
L	SmartLadder	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
1-5	007A	G00100 + G00101	1538	1,2,4	3,5
6-10	011A	G00100 + G00101		none	6,7,8,9,10
11-15	012K	G00100 + G00101		3,5	1,2,4
L	SmartLadder	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a