Team:Brown/Notebook/July16

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Friday, July 16 2010

Results of test for cell competence:

XL1B from 6/28: hopelessly contaminated on Amp+

XL1B from 6/24:

  • w/ RFP control: ~40 colonies---1.4 E6
  • w/ Empty pNoTat: ~342 colonies---3.4 E6

BL21 from 6/24:

  • w/ RFP control: ~46 colonies---0.46 E6
  • w/ Empty pNoTat: ~74 colonies---0.74 E6

CFU calculation:

(pg plasmid DNA / total rxn volume)*plated volume = (100pg/250µl)*250µl = 100 pg DNA plated

(Avg # colonies / pg DNA plated) * 106 = # transformed cells / µg = CFU


  • Control culture exhibited no growth as expected (LB+amp, overnight at 37°C).
  • Poured amp+ plates (100ng/mL stock) – 1 mL in 1L LB  produced 40 plates.
  • Made glycerol stock of part BBa_J06702 in both XL1B and BL21s. Also miniprepped BBa_J06702 from the same overnight culture using Qiagen Kit.
  • Made overnight culture of Bba_K191003 (aka LovTAP), which came in today
    • 5 mL LB
    • 3.57 µl Kan at 35 mg/µl
    • NO IPTG, so now it is a low-copy plasmid (pSB2K3)

Adrian made competent cell stock (XL1B) frozen for us. We Aliquoted into 2.5 boxes full of 150 µl tubes.

Test competency of cell stock:

10 µl RFP diluted (100 picograms DNA) + 150 µl competent cells

Followed Adrian-modified protocol for transformation; plated onto amp+ plate and a null plate as a control.

Test of tet resistance in L. lactis

  • 5 µl L. lactis with plasmid (pPTPi) transferred to 5 mL MRS
  • 5 µl L. lactis without plasmid (pPTPi) transferred to 5 mL MRS.

Both tubes had 5 µg/mL tetracycline.

Test of tet efficiency in BL21s:

  • 5 µl BL21 in 10 µg/mL tet LB
  • 5 µl BL21 in NO tet LB