Team:Brown/Notebook/August13

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Gel extractions from yesterday's gel

Gel extracted the following using Qiagen kit:

  • CI - 17.3ng/ul
  • Mnt - 15ng/ul
  • AraC - 14.2ng/ul
  • RFC25_AraC (little tube) - 9.5ng/ul

Gel of AraC-RFC25 re-PCR

17ul DNA, 3ul loading buffer

Gel 81310 1.jpg

Gel product was extracted in 30ul EB. Final concentration: 14.4ng/ul

Ligations of CI PCR, Mnt PCR, AraC PCR into pGEM

1:3 vector to insert ratio. 15ul total volume:

  • 7.5ul ligase buffer (2x)
  • 1ul T4 DNA ligase
  • 0.5ul vector (pGEM-T-easy)
  • 5.5ul DNA
  • 0.5ul dH2O?? (was not clear from paper-based notebook)

Control ligation

15ul total volume:

  • 7.5ul ligase buffer (2x)
  • 1ul T4 DNA ligase
  • 0.5ul vector (pGEM-T-easy)
  • 1.5ul DNA
  • 4.5ul dH2O

Digest of Lovtwo miniprep w/ EcoRI and BglII

50ul total volume:

  • 5ul NEB buffer 2
  • 2ul DNA
  • 0.5ul 100x BSA
  • 1ul EcoRI OR BglII
  • 41.5ul dH2O

Gel of products

  • Ladder - 14ul
  • Lovtwo-EcoRI - 13ul
  • Lovtwo-BglII - 12ul
  • Lovtwo-miniprep - 9ul

Gel 81310 2.jpg

PCR of Lovtwo wt into Lovtap2 (Lovtap2 has Bgl sites?)

50ul total volume:

  • 2ul fwd primer
  • 2ul rev primer
  • 1ul template (lovTwo wt miniprep at 192.5ng/ul)
  • 20ul dH2O
  • 25ul master mix