Team:Marburg/Protocols/Protocol3

Competent E. coli cells (RbCl)

  • inoculate 100 mL of LB-Media with E. coli and let the cells grown to OD600 = 0.5
  • incubate the culture on ice for 10 minutes
  • centrifuge the culture (2 x 50 mL, 10 min, 3000 rpm, 4 °C)
  • discard the supernatant
  • wash the pellet with 10 mL TFB1
  • centrifuge (10 min, 3000 rpm, 4 °C)
  • discard the supernatant
  • resuspend the pellet in 2 mL TFB2
  • pipette 200 µL aliquots
  • cool it in liquid nitrogen
  • stored @ -80 °C
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