Team:UCLA/Notebook/Honeybee Silk

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Honeybee Silk Notebook

April 26 - May 2
4/26 PCR off honey bee gene block
  • See Benchling for the g block sequence and primer reference code https://benchling.com/s/p7bClpzQ/edit
  • The goal of this is to clone 2 different constructs and prepare them as biobricks, one that is just the silk gene, and the other that as the promoter, rbs, etc.. required for protein expression.
  • Using primers p3, p7, and p8. (See Benchling link)
  • PCR Reaction 1 (q5 polymerase kit): primers honeybee p#7 and honeybee p#8 with gBlock, and honeybee p#3 and honeybee p#8 amplify just the honeybee coding region and the prom + coding region respectively
    Component Volume
    5X Q5 Reaction Buffer 5
    10 mM dNTPs 0.5
    10 uM Forward (primer 3/7) 1.25
    10 uM Reverse (primer 8) 1.25
    Template (diluted to 1ng/uL) 0.5
    Q5 High Fidelity DNA Polymerase 0.25
    Nuclease Free Water 16.25
  • Had a slice of pizza
May 3 - May 8
5/4 Transformation of Silk and Prom + Silk
  • Using Sri’s chemically competent cells
  • Using ligation product from 4/30 (not purifying the ligation product as per Eric’s recommendation)
  • Restriction digest
  • Had a slice of pizza
Day 2
  • PCR
  • Ran gel
  • Restriction digest
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Day 3
  • PCR
  • Ran gel
  • Restriction digest
  • Had a slice of pizza