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Revision as of 10:00, 2 September 2015

iGEM Toulouse 2015

Experiments & Protocols



Protocols for varroa tests

Sampling of varroa

Material

  • Bee hive
  • Beekeeper suit
  • Gloves
  • Smoker
  • Dry twigs
  • Tweezers
  • Big brush
  • Small brush
  • Petri dishes Ø x h = 35 x 15 mm

Methods

  • 1. Streak cells froms frozen stock onto YETM plate. Incubate overnight at 37°C
  • 2. Pick a single fresh colony to inoculate 5mL of YETM medium. Grow over night at 37°C.
  • Do not vortex cells at any time after this point in the procedure
  • 3. Dilute 1mL of culture into 50mL YETM medium prewarmed to 37°C

$$ P\cdot V = n\cdot R\cdot T, \textrm{ideal gaz law} $$ $$ P_A = C_A\cdot R\cdot T = 7,826\cdot10^{-3}\times8,314\times293=19,964 Pa $$

  • PA: partial pressure of A in Pa
  • CA: Concentration of A in air in mol.m-3
  • R: perfect gaz constant = 8,314 J.mol-1.K-1
  • T: temperature in °K

$$ P_A = H_A\cdot C_{A,eq}, \textrm{Henry's law} $$ $$ C_{A,eq} = \frac{19,964}{0,019} = 1,019mol.L^{-1}$$

  • CA,eq: equivalent concentration in liquid in mol.L-1
  • HA: Henry's constant = 0,019 Pa.m3mol-1

Transformation Protocol: RbCl method

Media and solution

YETM 500mL TFB1 200mL TFB2 200mL
  • 2.5g Yeast Extract
  • 10g Tryptone
  • 5g MgSO4.7H2O
  • Adjust pH to 7.5 with KOH
  • For Plates: add 7.5g of Agar
  • 0.59g KOAc
  • 2.42g RbCl
  • 0.29g CaCl2.2H2O
  • 1.98g MnCl2.4H2O
  • Adjust to pH 5.8 with 0.2 M acetic acid
  • Add dH2O to 200mL
  • Filter sterilize
  • Store refrigerated at 4°C
  • 0.42g MOPS
  • 2.21g CaCl2.2H20
  • 0.24g RbCl
  • 30g Glycerol
  • Adjust to pH 6.5 with KOH
  • Add dH2O to 200mL
  • Filter sterilize
  • Store refrigerated at 4°C

Preparation of Competent Cells

  • 1. Streak cells froms frozen stock onto YETM plate. Incubate overnight at 37°C
  • 2. Pick a single fresh colony to inoculate 5mL of YETM medium. Grow over night at 37°C.
  • Do not vortex cells at any time after this point in the procedure
  • 3. Dilute 1mL of culture into 50mL YETM medium prewarmed to 37°C
    • Grow at 37°C for 2hr with agitation
    • Volumes can be scaled up 5X and all of the 5mL overnight culture can be used
  • 4. Transfer culture to sterile 50 mL tube. Chill on ice/water 10-15 minutes
  • 5. Centrifuge for 10 minutes at 2000rpm at 4°C. Immediately aspirate off all of the supernatant
  • Do not allow cells to warm above 4°C at any time in this procedure
  • 6. Resuspend cells in 10mL of ice-cold TFB1 with gentle re-pipetting. Use chilled glass or plastic pipette
  • 7. Incubate cells on ice for 5min
  • 8. Repeat step 5
  • 9. Resuspend cells in 2mL of ice-cold TFB2 with gentle re-pipetting. Use micropipet tip (plastic)
  • 10. Incubate cells on ice for 15 minutes
  • Cells may be used for transformation or frozen
    • To freeze: aliquot cell in 200μL volumes into prechilled 0.5mL microfuge tube (on ice)
    • Freeze immediately in liquid nitrogen
    • Store cells frozen at -80°C

Transformation of Competent Cells

  • 1. If starting with frozen competent cells, warm tube/cells by gently twirling between your fingers until just thawed.
    Immedately place on ice for about 5 minutes
  • 2. Add to 1,5mL eppendorff on ice: 2-3μL iGEM plate or 1μL plasmid or 10μL ligation.
  • 3. Add 100μL of competent cells and mix by gentle re-pipetting
  • 4. Incubate cells on ice for 20-30 minutes
  • 5. Heat shock the cells exactly 90 seconds at 42°C
  • 6. Return cells on ice for 2 minutes
  • 7. Add 1mL of YETM medium. Incubate at 37°C for 45-60 minutes with slow gentle shaking
  • 8. Plate 0.1-0.2 mL of transformed cells on LB-plate containing the appropriate antibiotic. Incubate overnight at 37°C

Minipreps

  • 1. Resuspend 4 to 12 colonies from the plate and name each colony taken on the tubes and on the plate (A, B, C, …)
  • 2. Resuspend one colony per culture tube in 5 mL of LB medium with antibiotic
  • 3. Let the culture grow overnight at 37°C in a shaking incubator
  • 4. Use the QIAprep spin Miniprep Kit for each culture tube. The last step consisting in the elution of the DNA is made with elution buffer or water at 55°C
  • 5. Keep the tubes at -20°C


Cloning

First step: Digestion

Both parts have the same antibiotic resistance

Vector Insert

1 µg of

10 µL of miniprep plasmid

1 µL of each restriction enzymes

1 µL of each restriction enzymes

2 µL of Green Buffer

2 µL of Green Buffer

9 µL of Milli-Q water

4 µL of Milli-Q water

Incubate 15 minutes at 37°C

The two parts have a different antibiotic resistance

Both parts

5 µL of miniprep plasmid

1 µL of each restriction enzymes

2 µL of Green Buffer

9 µL of Milli-Q water

Incubate 15 minutes at 37°C

Migration and gel extraction

  • 1. Prepare a 1% or 2% electrophoresis agarose gel with 0.5x TAE buffer
  • 2. Put 20 µL of sample + 6 µL of marker (1 kb for 1% gel and 100 pb for 2%) into the well
  • 3. Migration for 30 min at 100 V or 1 hour at 50 V
  • 4. Bathe 10 minutes in BET
  • 5. Wash in water for 5 minutes
  • 6. The gel extraction is realized thanks to the QIAGEN Gel Extraction Kit

  • Two ways to inactivate the enzymes for the vector
    • Use of DNA Clean up kit for the DNA fragment above 200 pb
    • Heat inactivation at 95°C for 10 minutes

Second step: Ligation

Mix Control

10 µL of insert

no insert

4 µL of vector

4 µL of vector

2 µL of 10x T4 buffer

2 µL of 10x T4 buffer

0.5 µL of T4 ligase

0.5 µL of T4 ligase

3.5 µL of Milli-Q water

13.5 µL of Milli-Q water

 Incubate the ligation mix 15 minutes at room temperature (22°C)

 Keep the tubes in ice or at -20°C to prepare the transformation

Third step: Ligation

  • 1. Take 10µL of the ligation mix for 100 µL of competent cells and use the Toulouse iGEM Team 2015 transformation protocol
  • 2. Plate the solution on selective medium overnight at 37°C

References