Team:TU Delft/Notebook

Notebook

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Work Space

Our lab and office. Our new home for the summer.

About our lab

The iGEM lab, inside the Applied Sciences building of the TU Delft, has been the place where our science took place. It has the certification for ML-1 experiments, which was enough for our experiments. Here we learned and improved our skills in cloning and manipulating biological materials. We also tried to apply our ideas from paper to the real world. All in all, we discovered the world of synthetic biology from the inside.

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About our office

Our office has been our meeting point and our dry-lab zone during the project. Here, amazing talks about biology, engineering and philosophy took place. And here we debated about science and lab topics. To sum up, the office that you can see in the picture in the left has been our home this summer: the place where we built the project, but also where we built our team spirit.

Safety

Lab and Project Safety

Safety in our Lab

Our lab is classified as Level 1 of biosafety. This is the lowest safety level, meaning that our experiments involve low or no risk. The biological materials used for our experiments are handled in an open bench All the members of the team have received safety training, including:

Introduction to sterile working

RNA handling

Laser safety

Microscopy training

ML-1 safety test completion

Chemical safety training

General safety information, regarding contact persons and locations

Computer infrastructure

The safety of our experiments was supervised by Susanne Hage (Safety Manager of the TNW faculty) and Marinka Almering (Safety officer of the TU Delft). The research has been conducted with respect to the regulations of biosafety for The Netherlands, that can be found here

Safety in our Project

Our harmless bacteria produces curli subunits in order to make an inducible biofilm. The curli is natively produced by several safe strains, like the TOP10 used for transformations. Our strain contains a CsgA deletion and can only produce the curli when transformed with the designed plasmid and induced. This part of the project is based on sufficient scientific publications and previous iGEM information and parts. Also, one assay is designed to test the efficiency of the biofilm created carrying a specific affinity tag. For the assay teeth pieces were used, taking care of all the existing regulations and safety recommendations.

The chassis organism used for our project is a modified strain of the lab organism Escherichia coli K-12. It is called E. coli K-12 MG1655 PRO ΔcsgA ompR234.

In addition to our chassis organism, Escherichia coli Top 10 cells were used for cloning procedures

A pig tooth is used for testing our affinity application to hydroxyapatite. This will be arranged following the lab regulations, and the tooth will be provided following all the existing regulations. We will handle the part in the ML1 lab, and using gloves while working with the part. Furthermore, the teeth are cleaned properly before the use. The use of that samples is regulated by the Ministry of Economic affairs, Agriculture and Innovation of the Government of The Netherlands. The waste of all animal byproduct is designated as Specific Animal Waste (following Euralcode 180102). Later on, it is transported to the ZAVIN in Dordrecht for its destruction. For further information, you could contact the Residual Management Department of TU Delft (ReststoffenBeheer@tudelft.nl)

One of the problems to be faced with this project is the production of csgA as biofilm-maker unit. It has been reported previously as a virulence factor from harmful strains of E.coli, because the amyloid make the attachment to surfaces easier. However, we implemented two safety points for minimizing the risk of plasmid transmission to pathogen strains. First of all, the gene which codifies for csgA is preceded by a Rhamnose promoter. That prevents curli (csgA+csgB polymer) to be produces when no inductor is applied to the system. Furthermore, as rhamnose is a metabolizable inductor the gene expression could be avoided just by stopping the rhamnose supply. On the other hand, we aim our project for product testing or industrial production. So, the good laboratory practices and good manufacturing practices in these two fields should avoid any safety issue.

If our project could be fully developed into a real product, it would aim the following fields:

Factories

Lab applications

Consumer products

Test products to be used in the human body

Test products on food

We would like to encourage every interested iGEM team or researcher in general to contact us for further details about the safety in our lab and project!

Day Notes

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Curli

15/06/2015

We started preparing the materials for the lab. All the devices are set up, and the disposables ready to sterilize. At the end of the day, both plastic ware and liquids were autoclaved (121ºC, 15-30 min). Here the materials prepared are summarized:

LB medium, 6 bottles of 200 ml*

LB-agar mixture, 6 bottles of 400 ml*

CaCl2 100mM, 1 bottle of 200 ml*

Ethanol 70%, 1 bottle of 400 ml*

CaCl2 100mM + 40% Glycerol, 1 bottle of 200 ml*

*All the materials were prepared using standard methods

16/06/2015

The first stock of competent cells was made, so the first cloning experiments were conducted. could. The Top10 strain was chosen due to its availability and reliability in the results. 100 tubes of working solution containing 50 µL of Top10 competent cells (1) were made, and stored at -80ºC afterwards.

(1) Protocol for Top10 competent cells

19/06/2015

The cloning experiments started today. The experiments for InterLab study were performed initially (see Interlab labjournal). First, LB-Agar plates were made so they were solid and available for growing the cells later:

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*The antibiotics were taken from a stock solution containing:

1:1000 ampicillin

1:1000 chloramphenicol

1:1000 kanamycin

23/06/2015

The following cell cultures were made in 9 mL LB ∆csgA strain, K1316015 and I13504 in and grown overnight at 30°C. I13522 (TETP-GFP) has been taken from the iGEM distribution kit (2015, plate 3, location I6).

Primers were dissolved in sterile Milli-Q water according to the amount specified in the shipping information (3) and shaken at 400 rpm for 20 minutes at room temperature to procedure stock solution for iGEM15 1 and iGEM15 2.

(3): Shipping information for primers.

24/06/2015

Plasmids were isolated for K1316015 using the Promega miniprep unit and the related protocol you can find online (4). Plasmids were stored at minus 20°C (30 µl);

AM35α has been made competent (1) and grown overnight. In order to see whether the density was good enough, the OD was measured.

To check the PCR reaction, an agarose gel (6) was made. The PCR product should be at the level of 2.7 KB.

The construct K1316015∆CsgB was isolated from the gel by using the Promega DNA purification protocol (7).

Finally, the ligation was performed with K1316015∆Csg (0.3 µl, based on a concentration of 153.94 ng/µl).

(4): Protocol related to Promega miniprep unit for plasmid isolation.

(5): Protocol for doing a PCR reaction.

(6): Protocol for running an agarose gel.

(7): Protocol for Promega DNA purification.

25/06/2015

Transformation (2) of ligation product K1316015∆CsgB (top10 cells, 46 ng). After transformation, the cells were plated on LB + CAM.

Plated the transformation products K1316015∆CsgB on LB - Cam plates;

Preparation of competent cells for ∆csgA AM35α. 1 mL of the overnight culture was inoculated in 100 mL of LB medium.

Isolation of genomic csgC & csgEFG with primers Primers selected: iGEM15 15;16;17;18. The primers were dissolved in Milli-Q water (sterile) according to the amount specified in the delivery note (8) and shaken for 20 minutes at 400 rpm at room temperature. Produced primer stock solutions from which the working solutions were prepared (100 µM). By a 1:10 dilution to give a working solution of 10 µM or 10 pmol/µl. Working solutions were produced for a volume of 100 µL.

The competent cells (AM35α) had an OD600 of 0.561 in a volume of 100 mL. Cells were harvested in 2 50mL tubes at 4°C for 5 minutes at 4000 rpm. 10 ml of ice cold 0.1 M CaCl2 was added to each tube to resuspend the cells and incubate them on ice for 20 minutes. They were centrifuged and resuspended in 5 mL ice cold CaCl2 each. Incubation for 1h on ice. The cells were pelleted and resuspended in 5 mL 50mM CaCl2 + 40% glycerol each. They were divided in portions of 50 µL and frozen in liquid N2.

(8): Delivery note of primers.

29/06/2015

Isolation of E.coli U12 DH5α genomic DNA. Cells were grown overnight in 6mL LB and stored in the fridge over the weekend. The genomic DNA was isolated using Promega Wizard genomic DNA purification kit following the producer’s protocol (9). The DNA pellet was rehydrated at 4°C overnight.

Cell cultures were created for the 100 µL plates from 25/06/2015 in 8mL LB+ 80µL 100x AMP (actually, 100 mg/mL). No growth was observed indicating problems with the transformation.

(9): Promega Wizard genomic DNA purification kit.

30/06/2015

Measurements of dsDNA indicates failure of isolation of genomic DNA. The concentration is within the machine’s fluctuation 1-2 ng/µl with fluctuations of 1 ng/µl in measurement.

01/07/2015

Transformation of GFP/∆csgB product – plated on LB-CAM; So, plates that should be prepared: 4 plates LB; 2 plates LB-CAM; 6 plates LB-AMP;

Restriction reaction was performed as followed, - ∆csgB was restricted with EcoRI/XbaI (16 µl) The reaction mixtures for restriction were as below and it was incubated at 37°C.

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Selected colonies from

∆csgB LB-CAM

I13522 LB-CAM

The selected colonies were incubated in 8 mL of LB containing CAM or AMP and they were grown at 37°C at 210 rpm.

An agarose gel was made, the running was performed at V is 100 mL and for 60 minutes.

02/07/2015

Plasmid isolation (Promega, protocol (4)) of ∆csgB, and I13522. Different in this protocol were the facts that we did not use elution buffer but Milli-Q at 50°C (even if we work with small plasmids). The plasmid concentration was determined with the nanodrop machine. A restriction of these four plasmids was performed at 37°C for 2 hours. To check the restriction products, an agarose gel was performed.

Transformation was performed with Top10 cells prepared by Ilja. The normal protocol of transformation was followed (2) for transforming and pUC19 (as a control). For the transformation 1 µl of DNA was added.

03/07/2015

A gel purification(Promega (7)) and a ligation of ∆csgB and I13522 (to obtain the csgA_GFP construct) were performed. Then, transformation of Ligation product csgA-GFP; Control TOP10 strain; was performed. Cells were plated in duplo and also one control.

06/07/2015

Results of the transformation (csgA-GFP)

1. Empty plasmid control (also growth, 100 colonies);

2. TOP10 + CsgA+GFP (growth, 43 colonies, big).

After the checking the plates, a small culture of 5 mL was made using a single colony from the obtained plates, the following cultures were made: TOP10 + csgA-GFP.

The antibiotics were added in a ratio of 1:1000 (thus in 5 mL, we have added 5µl). After cloning, we put the 50 mL tubes at 37°C at 200 rpm.

Besides that we made LB and LB-agar.

- 2 x 200 mL LB (4 g LB powder and 200 mL MQ-water);

- 1 x 400 mL LB (8 g LB powder and 400 mL MQ-water);

- 2 x 400 mL LB agar, 14.24 LB agar powder and 400 mL MQ-water);

- 1x 900 mL LB agar, 32.05 LB agar powder and 900 mL MQ-water);

Then the materials were autoclaved in the kitchen.

The backbone for our own construct is pSB4K5. For the transformation, we did use the protocol (2). Then we have grown the cells on the plates, I13504 and pUC19 on AMP, J23101, J23106 and J23117 at CAM and pSB4K5 at KAN.

07/07/2015

For IDT transformation we already decided which plates we should use

- 16 plates LB-KAN;

- 16 plates BL-CAM;

08/07/2015

We prepared our own antibiotic stock solutions (although we had to redo it anyway)

Amp: 100mg/ml = 0.1 g/ml (dissolved in water)

Kan: 50 mg/ml = 0.05 mg/ml (dissolved in water)

Cam: 35 mg/ml = 0.035 mg/ml. (dissolved in 100% ethanol).

After preparing the antibiotic stocks in only 1 mL, the supervisors (Essengül) told us to make larger stocks and also filter them in order to sterilize them (since we cannot autoclave them).

13/07/2015

Overnight three tubes with 5mL cultures were grown at 37°C shaken at 200 rpm. These were:

K1316015ΔCsgB

I13522

pSB4K5

14/07/2015

Plasmid isolation of pSB4K5 was done for IDT genes backbones. This was done by using 4,5mL overnight culture for isolation of plasmids, to increase the yield. The yield was determined by using the nanodrop, and the concentration was 62,7 ng/ µL.

Glycerol stock was made from the 0,5mL culture left according to protocol from

I13522, → B1 (F1, block 2, column 1, row 6, box 1)

K1316015ΔCsgB→ B2

15/07/2015

For the gBlocks® we performed the restriction. The standard mixture used was followed.The cutsafe and H2O were mixed in the ratio of 14µl cutsafe and 98µl H2O. The DNA was subscribed as followed (gBlocks®):

Mfp5_CsgA;

CsgA_Mfp3;

CsgA_His;

CsgA;

CsgA_HA;

CsgA_Spytag;

CsgC_low;

CsgC_medium;

CsgC_high;

CsgBC_low;

CsgBC_medium;

CsgBC_high;

CsgEFG;

The restriction was left overnight, the temperature schedule was as follows:

The first 3 hours at 37°C;

20 minutes at 65°C;

The rest of the night at 4°C.

16/07/2015

The restricted IDT genes of 15/07/2015 were ligated according a ratio 3:1 for insert:vector. The first 3h the samples were placed at 16°C and the other 20 minutes it was placed at 4°C. After the ligation, 2µl of each sample was transformed into 50µl TOP10 cells. After 1h at 37°C, 35µl of the sample was plated. For the concentrated sample, we centrifuged the samples for 3 minutes at 4000 rpm. Discarded the supernatant partly and resuspended pellet. Plate also 35µl of concentrated cells.

20/07/2015

Column purification was done on CsgAΔCsgB to remove the small restricted pieces. This was done following protocol of the Wizard column purification.

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Colonies from plate #2-13 were grown in triplicate in LB - CAM. In total 36 tubes were used, because triplicates were performed due to possibility of self ligation of the backbones pSB1C3 and pSB4K5. Plate #1 was placed in stove again to grow overnight, for larger colonies, at 37°C.

21/07/2015

CsgEFG was placed in a pSB4K5 plasmid which contains an Kanamycin (KAN) resistance gene. This plasmid was attempted to be grown in Chloramphenicol (CAM), but no growth was obtained. The transformation will be repeated in LB-KAN, with the same colonies used first.

Plasmid isolation was done for cultures #1.1-12.3 (36 total). Analytical restriction was performed to confirm insert size for all samples with EcoRI-HF & PstI-HF (See lab journal, page 38 for pipetted volumes). Only 24 out of 36 had the insert, which will be continued with. The correct plasmids are marked green in Table 1

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Analytical Restrictions of 7.2 – 12.3, the ladder is a Benchtop 1kb DNA ladder (Left)
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Table 1. The successful plasmids (green) will have to be restricted again to continue with ligation. Constructs 3 - 6 will be cut with EcoRI-HF & XbaI-HF. Constructs 7-12 will be cut with EcoRI-HF & SpeI-HF. One Glycerol stock was made per successful construct.

22/07/2015

Construct 13 has been grown again in LB-KAN. Plasmid isolation was done. These plasmids had to be analytically restricted to make sure that the plasmid contained an insert. To speed up the progress, the analytical restriction (EcoRI-HF & PstI-HF) was done at the same time as the “real” restriction (EcoRI-HF & SpeI-HF).

Restriction of constructs 3-6 were done with EcoRI-HF & XbaI-HF. This should cut out a DNA fragment of around ~10 basepairs, which will be removed using column purification. Restriction of constructs 7-13 were done with EcoRI-HF & SpeI-HF. The restriction products were added to electrophoresis, proceeded for 30 minutes at 120V.

Transformation of I13521 [RFP] into top10 cells. Of the I13521 plasmid, 2µl was added to 50µl of cells, incubated for 30 minutes on ice, heat stocked, punt on ice for 2 minutes and incubated at 37°C in 1 ml of pre-warmed LB for 1 hour. Plated on CAM plates in both low and high concentration. Empty cells were used as control to check the quality of the plates.

Another step we performed was the ligation of CsgA∆CsgB with I13522 (GFP). The concentrations of both plasmids after isolation was equal to CsgA∆CsgB: 3.2 ng/µl and I13522: 5.9 ng/µl. Construct:backbone ratio was equal to 1:3.7.

The reagents were mixed and incubated at room temperature for one hour. After that, the mixture was inactivated by heat shock for ten minutes at 65°C. Half of the ligation mixture (25µl) was used for the transformation. The concentration of the ligation mixture was determined to be 600 ng/µl but this result is rather unlikely and most likely due to the ligation buffer and ligase components.

The restriction described above gave the following results. The cloning of CsgEFG did not work for the 3 colonies chosen; 13.1 and 13.3 were self-ligated plasmids and 13.2 was an empty plasmid. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.2 and 9.3 were not digested by the restriction enzymes; the only band observed on the gel was the one corresponding to the plasmids.

The restrictions of 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2 and 12.1 were successful. Unfortunately, it was impossible to see the bands under the UV. Therefore, the experiment has to be repeated.

23/07/2015

Material preparation for LB agar. Four new bottles of 400 mL were prepared. 14.24 grams of LB agar mix + 400 mL Milli-Q water were mixed while heating to boiling point. After preparation, the bottles were autoclaved.

Another material preparation was performed, 3 bottles of 200 mL LB and 1 bottle of 400 mL LB were prepared. For the 200 mL bottles, 2 grams of LB powder was weighed and added to 200 mL Milli-Q water and for the other one 4 grams of LB powder was weighted and added to 400 mL Milli-Q water.

Chloramphenicol preparation: 35 mg chloramphenicol was dissolved in 1 mL EtOH 100% to give 1000x concentrated stock.

Besides material preparation, we performed plasmid isolation and after that restriction.

The restricted fragments were put on a 1% Agarose gel. The fragment size of 7 to 9 is equal to 441 bp. However, due to the gel used, these fragments run off the gel. The empty cut plasmid was observed at 2070 bp, but previously analysis showed the insert was there. Both 10 and 12 were observed at the correct fragment size.

Clones for 13 still showed only plasmid self-ligation at 6000 bp. Therefore, the ligation/transformation will be repeated for this one.

Transformation results for the I13521 & CsgA_GFP (I13522)

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The stock solutions for sequencing primers made by dissolving the DNA in 10µl Milli-Q H2O per 1ng to obtain a concentration of 100µM. 20µl of the stock solution was added to 180µl of Milli-Q to afford 10 µM working solution.

24/07/2015

Dissolving gel slices and extracting DNA for 10, 11 and 12. After extraction, the following weights for the three types of constructs were obtained.

10: 370 ng;

11: 550 ng;

12: 740 ng.

Membrane binding solution was added in 1:1 and the slice was dissolved at 55°C.

Thus, the samples were loaded on a 2% agarose gel to achieve higher concentrations. For the transformations CsgA_GFP and RFP (I135521) a colony PCR was done, to see if the plasmids contained an insert. We did this by using a sterile tip to pick off a piece of a colony into the PCR reaction mixture. The PCR reaction mixture contained:

We repeated the purification with gel of the restricted plasmid DNA. The gel slices weighted each: 7,2: 900 mg; 8: 600 mg; 9: 420 mg; 10: 500mg; 11: 500 mg; 12: 500 mg;

We dissolved the gel slices in 1ug:1uL membrane binding solution and followed the purification from gel protocol. The final concentrations were: 7.2: 1 ng/µL; 8: 2,5 ng/µL ; 9: 3,2 ng/µL; 10: 2,05 ng/µL; 11: 3,6 ng/µL; 12: 2,5 ng/µL;

The purified DNA fragments were stored in the -20°C.

27/07/2015

When looking on the gel 13 (CsgEFG) did not work. Therefore, the ligation and restriction should be repeated. This is done by restricting the plasmid pSB4K5 (14-07-2015) and CsgEFG (23-07-2015) with EcoRI-HF and PstI-HF, and ligating the products afterwards.

The pSB4K5 was then run on a gel at 110 V for 30 minutes, together with a DNA ladder (Benchtop 1kb DNA ladder) and uncut pSB4K5. In order to make the bands visible on the gel, Blue/orange loading dye was added to the uncut and cut pSB4K5 samples. We looked at the gel using a UV lamp, and cut out the band of the cut pSB4K5 at approximately 1700 kb. Gel purification was then done with a yield of 2.08 ng/µl.

The restricted CsgEFG was column purified using the Wizard SV, gel and PCR clean-up system following protocol with a yield of 1.32 ng/µl.

28/07/2015

Plasmid isolation for CsgA_GFP and I13521 (RFP) in triplicate with the goal to restrict RFP for ligation and confirm the insert for CsgA_GFP. 5 mL of the bacterial cultures were used.

The restrictions of I13521 and CsgA_GFP have been performed EcoRI-HF and SpeI-HF.The restriction has been incubated for 1 hour at 37°C in PCR with final heat shock.

The CsgA has been put on the gel on the left side, RFP on the right. A size of 2400 bp indicates failure of ligation of CsgA with GFP. RFP was confirmed and cut out of the gel.

The DNA constructs made on 22/07/2015 (3.1-6.3) were purified out of the gel. The next step is ligation in a ratio of 3:1 insert:vector. During the ligation, different samples are ligated. The CsgEFG_pSB4K5 and the constructs described in the table above.

Ligation has been incubated for 3 hours at 16°C and the final heat shock, the samples were hold for 6 minutes at 62°C. The improvement in the protocol is the fact that molar ratios are used instead of mass ratios!

Another step performed was the transformation into CaCl2 competent cells. Before the protocol could be followed, the cells were thawed for 20 minutes on ice. After the thawing, 8 µl of the ligation mixture was added to cells and incubated for 30 minutes. Running out of ‘sticks’, some of the results of the transformations were plated the next day.

30/07/2015

The restricted RFP was isolated from the gel, which resulted in concentrations of 17, 14 and 12 ng/µl in volumes of 50µl each. After that, ligation of I13521 (RFP) with CsgA & CsgA_His/HA/SpyTag. The ligation scheme is calculated in such a way that a vector DNA concentration of 50 ng is achieved.

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Another part of today was checking the plates made previously (24/07). No colonies were shown there. Consequently, the plates one tested with top 10 cells without plasmid in order to check the KAN antibiotic. So for the plating we used top 10 cells on LB + KAN plates.

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Moreover, we made overnight cultures in 5 mL LB + antibiotics (although mentioned otherwise).

31/07/2015

Today we started with plasmid isolation of the overnight cultures 1-20 inoculated at 30/07/2015. For the plasmid isolations, 4.5 mL (3 x 1.5 mL) was used from each overnight cultures, except for 7.1 & 7.3 (3 mL → 2x 1,5 mL) due to pipetting mistake. In the table below, the concentrations we found after the plasmid isolations are shown.

From the obtained plasmids, number 1 to 12 and the Interlab construct J23117_GFP were sent for sequencing. All in a total volume of 10 µl, a total amount of plasmid of 500 ng and a total amount of primer of 25 pmol. The primer working concentration would be 10 pmol/µl.

After plasmid isolation, we performed a restriction reaction. For this, the constructs Mfp5_csgA, CsgA_Mfp3, CsgA_his, CsgA_HA, CsgA and CsgA_Spy (1 to 6) were cutted with the restriction enzymes EcoRI-HF and XbaI-HF. pSB4K5 (14) and pSB1C3 were cut with EcoRI-HF and PstI-HF. Finally, the constructs CsgC_low #1, CsgC_low #2, CsgC_low #3 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3), I13522 #1, I13522 #2, I13522 #3, I13521 #1, I13521 #2, I13521 #3 were cut with EcoRI-HF and SpeI-HF.

The restricted samples were put on a gel to check whether the restriction worked.

- EcoRI/XbaI = small fragment → Column purification for #1-6 (Mfp5_csgA, CsgA_Mfp3, CsgA_his, CsgA_HA, CsgA and CsgA_Spy);

- EcoRI/SpeI = bad of ~700/400bp → Gel purification #9-17 (CsgC_low #1, CsgC_low #2, CsgC_low #3 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3), I13522 #1, I13522 #2, I13522 #3, I13521 #1, I13521 #2, I13521 #3);

- EcoRI/PstI = band of ~3000bp → Gel purification #7-8 (pSB4K5 (14) and pSB1C3).

Column purification was performed according to the protocol. Gel samples #7-17 were loaded with 5µl Blue loading buffer, with 25 µl sample loaded per slot.

The transformation of (30/07) CsgA_His/Spy/””/HA and RFP were grown overnight to confirm the insert, and make a cryostock.

Plasmid isolation was performed for the RFP + CsgA + tags. The samples were lost in the centrifuge so this must be repeated.

Ligation Csg_EFG with pSB1C3 & pSB4K5, CsgA&tags with GFP, Mfp5 & Mfp3 with GFP/RFP.

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Protocols

During our lab work we used the following protocols. You can also download them here. Protocols

  1. Plate Top10 cells and incubate at 37ºC overnight

  2. Pick one colony, inoculate in LB media and incubate overnight while shaking at 37ºC

  3. Dilute the culture in fresh medium, and continue the incubation until the OD600= 0.4-0.6

  4. Centrifugation 5 min. at 4000 rpm.

  5. Pellet cells and resuspend in 100mM of CaCl2 solution

  6. Incubate on ice for 20 min

  7. Centrifugation 5 min at 3000 rpm

  8. Pellet cells and suspend again in 100mM CaCl2 solution

  9. Incubate on ice for 60 min

  10. Centrifugation 5 min at 3000 rpm

  11. Add a solution of 100mM CaCl2 + 40% glycerol

  12. Store immediately at -80ºC

  1. Grow single Escherichia coli colony in LB overnight, at 37ºC and 200 rpm

  2. Dilute the overnight culture 1:100 in fresh LB medium and grow at 37ºC and 200 rpm, until OD600 is between 0.4 and 0.6

  3. Place the culture on ice for 15 minutes

  4. Harvest the cells by centrifugation (5 minutes at 4000 rpm at 4ºC) and resuspend in ice cold Mili-Q water, to the volume of the original culture

  5. Repeat the last washing step with Mili-Q water 2 times

  6. Resuspend cells in equal volume as cell pellet ice cold 10% glycerol

  7. Make aliquots of 40 µL and store at -80ºC

  1. Take the competent cells from the storage at -80ºC and leave them on ice for 10-15 min

  2. Add 1-2 µL of plasmid solution to the 50 µL cell tube

  3. Incubate on ice for 30 min

  4. Heat-shock the cells at 42ºC for 45s

  5. Incubate on ice for 2 min

  6. Add 500 µL of LB media and incubate 60 min at 37ºC

  7. Plate the cultures on agar plate

  1. Use 40 µL electrocompetent cells for electroporation

  2. Add 1-10 ng of plasmid DNA or 1 µL of ligation product to the cells

  3. Transfer cells + DNA to 2mm electroporation cuvette

  4. Electroporate at 2500 V, with a pulse of 5-6 ms

  1. Pick a single colony from a plate or cryostock

  2. Put the colony in a 50 mL sterile tube and add 5-10 mL of LB fresh medium

  3. Put the tube to incubate for at least 16 h, at 37ºC and 200 rpm

Gel making

  1. Prepare 200 mL of TAE buffer

  2. Mix the TAE solution with 2g of agarose (for 1%)

  3. Heat the solution to boiling, and then cool it to 50ºC aprox.

  4. Add 5 µL of Ethidium bromide to the solution

  5. Pour the solution in the electrophoresis vessel. Apply the combs.

  6. Let it polymerize, and then cover it with TAE

Gel running

  1. Add 1/6 of total volume of Loading buffer to every DNA sample.

  2. Remove the combs from the gel, and pipette DNA samples and DNA ladder

  3. Run at 100-130V for 30-60 min (depends on the fragments)

  1. Add 20-100 ng of vector DNA (can be calculated from the DNA concentration in the sample)

  2. Add X ng of insert DNA. X is calculated using the length of both vector and insert and the molar ratio desired.

  3. Add 2µL of ligation buffer

  4. Add MQ water to set the final volume to 15-20

  5. Add 1 µL of T4 ligase (always at the end to keep the enzyme in optimal conditions)

  6. Incubate for at least 3 hours at 16ºC

  1. Take 1.5 mL from a freshly grown culture and put it in a 1.5 mL tube

  2. Spin the tube for 10 min at 2000 rpm

  3. Decant the supernatant without disturbing the pellet

  4. Add 0.5 mL of LB media and 0.5 mL of glycerol 80% solution

  5. Mix by vortexing

  6. Save in the -80ºC freezer

  1. Add 1 µg of DNA (can be calculated from concentration in the sample)

  2. Add 5 µL of NEB buffer

  3. Add 1 µL of restriction enzyme 1

  4. Add 1 µL of restriction enzyme 2

  5. Add MQ water to set the final volume at 50 µL

  6. Mix the solution by flicking the tube

  7. Spin-down in a microcentrifuge for 15 s

  8. Incubate at 37ºC for 1-2 hours

  1. Add 1.5 mL of bacterial culture in LB medium to a 1.5 mL micro-centrifuge tube. Centrifuge that tube at max speed for 3 min

  2. Remove the supernatant, and add 600 µL of MQ water to the pellet

  3. Add 100 µL of Cell Lysis Buffer, and mix by inverting 6 times. The color change to blue indicates complete lysis

  4. Add 350 µL of cold (4-8ºC) Neutralization Buffer, and mix by inverting the tube. The color change to yellow indicates total neutralization

  5. Centrifugate at maximum speed for 3 minutes, and transfer the supernatant to a PureYield Minicolumn

  6. Place the minicolumn into a PureYield Collection Tube and centrifuge at maximum speed for 15 seconds

  7. Discard the flowthrough and place the minicolumn again into the same PureYield Collection tube

  8. Add 200 µL of Endotoxin Removal Wash to the minicolumn. Centrifuge at maximum speed for 15 seconds. Do not empty the Collection Tube now

  9. Add 400 µL of Column Wash Solution to the minicolumn, and centrifuge at maximum speed for 30 seconds

  10. Transfer the minicolumn to a clean 1.5 mL tube, and 30 µL of hot (50ºC, pre-warmed) MQ water directly to the minicolumn matrix. Let stand for 5 minutes at room temperature

  11. Centrifuge at maximum speed in a microcentrifuge for 15 seconds to elute plasmidic DNA. Cap the tube, and store the DNA solution at -20 ºC (or use it directly for cloning experiments)

  1. Weigh a 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube for each DNA fragment to be isolated, and record the weight

  2. Visualize the DNA in the agarose gel using a long-wavelength UV lamp and an intercalating dye (Ethidium bromide). Irradiate the gel the minimum possible time to reduce nicking

  3. Excise the DNA fragment of interest in a minimal volume of agarose using a clean scalpel or razor blade. Transfer the gel slice to a weighted 1.5 mL tube and record the weight, again. Subtract the previously measured tube weight to obtain the weight of the gel slice containing the DNA fragment

  4. Add Membrane Binding Solution at a ratio of 10 µL of solution per 10 mg of agarose gel slice

  5. Vortex the mixture and incubate at 50-65ºC for 10 minutes, or until the gel slice is completely dissolve in the liquid. You can vortex the tube every few minutes to increase the rate of agarose melting

  6. Centrifuge the tube briefly at room temperature to ensure the contents are at the bottom of the tube. Once the agarose gel is melted, the gel will not re-solidify at room temperature

  7. Place one SV Minicolumn in a Collection Tube for each dissolved gel slice

  8. Transfer the dissolved gel mixture to the SV minicolumn assembly and incubate for 1 minute at room temperature

  9. Centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly in a microcentrifuge at max speed for 1 minute. Remove the SV Minicolumn from the Spin Column assembly and discard the liquid in the Collection Tube. Return the SV Minicolumn to the Collection Tube afterwards

  10. Wash the column by adding 700 µL of Membrane Wash Solution, previously diluted with 95% ethanol to the SV Minicolumn. Centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly for 1 minute at maximum speed

  11. Empty the Collection Tube as before, and place the SV Minicolumn back in the Collection Tube. Repeat the wash with 500 µL of Membrane Wash Solution, and centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly for 5 minutes at maximum speed

  12. Remove the SV Minicolumn assembly from the centrifuge (not wetting the bottom of the column with the supernatant). Empty the Collection Tube and centrifuge the assembly for 1 minute with the microcentrifuge lid open (or off) to allow ethanol evaporation

  13. Carefully transfer the SV Minicolumn to a clean 1.5 mL tube. Apply 50 µL of Nuclease-Free Water (at 50ºC) directly to the center of the column, without touching the membrane with the pipette. Incubate at room temperature for 5 minutes

  14. Centrifuge for 1 minute at 14000 rpm. Discard the SV Minicolumn, and store the tube containing the eluted DNA at 4ºC or -20ºC

  1. Add an equal volume of Membrane Binding Solution to the restriction product tube

  2. Place one SV Minicolumn in a Collection Tube for each restriction product solution

  3. Transfer the mixture to the SV Minicolumn assembly and incubate for 1 minute at room temperature

  4. Centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly in a microcentrifuge at max speed for 1 minute. Remove the SV Minicolumn from the Spin Column assembly and discard the liquid in the Collection Tube. Return the SV Minicolumn to the Collection Tube afterwards

  5. Wash the column by adding 700 µL of Membrane Wash Solution, previously diluted with 95% ethanol to the SV Minicolumn. Centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly for 1 minute at maximum speed

  6. Empty the Collection Tube as before, and place the SV Minicolumn back in the Collection Tube. Repeat the wash with 500 µL of Membrane Wash Solution, and centrifuge the SV Minicolumn assembly for 5 minutes at maximum speed

  7. Remove the SV Minicolumn assembly from the centrifuge (not wetting the bottom of the column with the supernatant). Empty the Collection Tube and centrifuge the assembly for 1 minute with the microcentrifuge lid open (or off) to allow ethanol evaporation

  8. Carefully transfer the SV Minicolumn to a clean 1.5 mL tube. Apply 50 µL of Nuclease-Free Water (at 50ºC) directly to the center of the column, without touching the membrane with the pipette. Incubate at room temperature for 5 minutes

  9. Centrifuge for 1 minute at 14000 rpm. Discard the SV Minicolumn, and store the tube containing the eluted DNA at 4ºC or -20ºC

  1. Linearize 1 µg vector by restriction digest

  2. Remove the 5’ phosphates from the vector with alkaline phosphatase

  3. Purify the linearized vector using an agarose gel

  4. Resuspend the GBlocks gene fragments to a final concentration of 10 ng/µL of water or TE buffer. The amount of DNA in each tube can be checked in the delivery document

  5. Prepare ends of GBlocks fragments by restriction of 10 µL

  6. Heat inactivate the enzyme, or column purify the restriction product (depending on the restriction protocol) keeping the digested insert as concentrated as possible

  7. Ligate 50 ng of vector with a 3 times molar excess of GBlocks in fresh T4 DNA ligase buffer and 400 u of T4 DNA ligase, setting the final volume to 20 µL. Incubate the solution for 2 hours at 16º

  8. Transform the ligation protocol into competent cells using the Transformation protocol

  1. Make the MasterMix using the materials specified below

  2. Pick a colony and dip in this mixture and then in 50 µL LB, so the colonies that contain the correct insert can be grown

  3. Run the PCR using the program specified below

Materials

  1. Salt solution, containing 1.2 M NaCl and 0.06 M MgCl2

  2. Taq polymerase

  3. dATP solution

  4. 10x buffer, containing 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.3 (at 42°C), 500 mM KCl, 25 mM MgCl2 and 0.01% gelatin

  5. DNA for transform into the cells

  6. Competent CaCl2 cells

  7. SOC medium, containing 2% Tryptone, 0.5% Yeast Extract, 10 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 10 mM MgSO4, 20 mM glucose

  8. LB-Agar petri dishes

Methodology

  1. Get adenine nucleotide at 3’, by adding

  2. 6 uL of DNA; 1 uL of Taq Polymerase; 1 uL of dATP; 1 uL of 10x buffer

  3. Use 3 uL of this solution and put them in a different tube.

  4. Add 1 uL of Salt Solution, 2 uL of miliQ water

  5. Incubate for 10 minutes at room temperature

  6. 2 uL are added into thawed competent cells, and the mixture is incubated for 15 minutes at room temperature

  7. Heat shock the cells at 42ºC for 30 seconds

  8. Place the tubes on ice, and add 250 uL of SOC medium to the mixture

  9. Grow the cells at 37ºC for 1 hour

  10. Plate the cultures on agar plate, using the necessary antibiotic

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  1. LB medium

  2. Lb+rhamnose medium, at different concentrations for induction

  3. Autoclaved, flat bottomed, transparent 96-well microtiter plates with lids

  4. Crystal violet solution at 0.1% (w/v) in water

  5. 95% (v/v) ethanol

  6. Platform shaker

  7. Plate reader

Methodology

Make an overnight culture of the bacteria of interest in LB+antibiotic at 37°C

Dilute each overnight culture by 1:100 into 200 μL of LB-rhamnose in wells of a cell culture treated, flat bottom, transparent 96-well microtiter plates with lids. Cover the plate

Incubate the plate for ~3 days, leaving enough time for the induction to occur

Remove the planktonic bacteria from each well by pipetting or shaking out the liquid

Wash the wells with water to remove the remaining planktonic cells. Submerge the plate in a tray of water and shake out the liquid. One can also add in water and remove the liquid with a multichannel pipet. Repeat this step twice

Add 210 μL of crystal violet solution into each well and stain for 10 min at RT

Discard the crystal violet solution, washing the wells three times in a tray or by pipetting (for removing non-specific interactions of the dye)

Invert the microtiter plate and vigorously tap the plate on a paper tower to remove the remaining water in the well. Air-dry the plate

Add 200 μL of 95% ethanol into each stained well. Cover the plate and incubate it on a platform shaker at RT for 15 min

Transfer the 100 μL of liquid onto a non-sterile, flat bottom, transparent 96-well microtiter plate. Measure the OD at 600 nm on a plate reader

Zhou, Y., Smith, D. R., Hufnagel, D. A., & Chapman, M. R. (2013). Experimental manipulation of the microbial functional amyloid called curli. In Bacterial cell surfaces (pp. 53-75). Humana Press.

  1. Wash buffer NPI-20

  2. Elution Buffer NPI-500

  3. Lysis buffer NPI-10

Methodology

Inoculate 10 mL of LB medium containing the appropriate antibiotics with a fresh bacterial colony harboring the expression plasmid. Grow at 37ºC overnight

Dilute the non-induced overnight culture 1:60 with fresh LB medium containing the appropriate antibiotics. Grow at 37ºC while shaking until the OD600 reaches 0.6

Add Rhamnose (induction) to the desired final concentration for induction, and grow at 37ºC for the appropriate induction time

Harvest the cells by centrifugation at 4000 g for 15 min

Transfer the supernatant to another tube and discard the pellet. Keep a part of the supernatant for SDS-PAGE analysis, if needed

Equilibrate the Ni-NTA spin column with 600 µL Buffer NPI-10. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g)

Make the supernatant solution, by setting the final solution to contain 200mM NaCl, 1mM PMSF, and 20mM imidazole. The pH is adjusted to 7.8, using 1M K2HPO4 solution

Load up to 600 µL of the supernatant solution containing the 6xHis-tagged protein onto the pre-equilibrated Ni-NTA spin column. Centrifuge for 5 min at 1600 rpm (270 g) and collect the flow-through

Wash the Ni-NTA spin column twice with 600 µL Buffer NPI-20. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g)

Elute the protein twice with 300 µL of Buffer NPI-500. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g) and collect the eluate

  1. Wash buffer NPI-20

  2. Elution Buffer NPI-500

  3. Lysis buffer NPI-10

  4. Lysozyme stock solution 10 mg/mL in water

  5. Benzonase ® Endonuclease 25 U/µL

Methodology

Inoculate 10 mL of LB medium containing the appropriate antibiotics with a fresh bacterial colony harboring the expression plasmid. Grow at 37ºC overnight

Dilute the non-induced overnight culture 1:60 with fresh LB medium containing the appropriate antibiotics. Grow at 37ºC while shaking until the OD600 reaches 0.6

Add Rhamnose (induction) to the desired final concentration for induction, and grow at 37ºC for the appropriate induction time

Harvest the cells by centrifugation at 4000 g for 15 min

Discard the supernatant and keep the pellet. Then resuspend the pellet in 630 µL of Lysis buffer (NPI10). Add 70 µL of Lysozyme stock solution (10 mg/mL) and add 3 units/mL of Benzonase®

Incubate on ice for 15-30 min

Centrifuge the lysate at 12000 g for 15-30 min at 4ªC. Collect the supernatant

Equilibrate the Ni-NTA spin column with 600 µL Buffer NPI-10. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g)

Load up to 600 µL of the cleared lysate solution containing the 6xHis-tagged protein onto the pre-equilibrated Ni-NTA spin column. Centrifuge for 5 min at 1600 rpm (270 g) and collect the flow-through

Wash the Ni-NTA spin column twice with 600 µL Buffer NPI-20. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g)

Elute the protein twice with 300 µL of Buffer NPI-500. Centrifuge for 2 min at 2900 rpm (890 g) and collect the eluate

  1. LB agar plates

  2. LB liquid medium

  3. Congo Red (CR) stock: Dissolve 1 g of Congo Red in 100 mL of water and sterilize by filtering. Store at 4ºC

  4. Chloramphenicol stock solution (35 mg/mL)

  5. Rhamnose (0.1-1% w/v)

  6. IPTG (4mM)

Methodology

Streak out the cells from a -80ºC cryostock onto LB+agar plate. Pick grown colonies and grow them overnight in liquid LB + antibiotic

Transfer 1 mL of the overnight culture in 30 mL LB+antibiotic, and keep it growing while shaking

Once the OD600 of the culture is around 0.4, induce the cultures with the desired amount of inductor (Rhamnose or IPTG). Wait 2 days after the induction

Take 1 mL of every sample and measure the OD600, using LB+CAM as blank

Add Congo Red to a final concentration of 20 µg/mL, mix and incubate for 5 min at room temperature

Centrifuge at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes

Take the supernatant and measure it at 480 nm (or the peak in the spectrophotometric absorption curve), using LB+CAM+Congo Red as a reference

Zhou, Y., Smith, D. R., Hufnagel, D. A., & Chapman, M. R. (2013). Experimental manipulation of the microbial functional amyloid called curli. In Bacterial cell surfaces (pp. 53-75). Humana Press.

  1. Grow a ∆csgA - csgA and ∆csgA – csgA-I13521 strain at 37°C overnight in LB medium.

  2. Measure the OD600. As the OD600 will probably be high (>2.5), make a ~50x dilution and grow the liquid cultures at 37°C for ~2h.

  3. Measure the OD600 again. If the OD600 is between 0.4 and 0.6 (exponential phase), continue to step 4.

  4. Write down the OD600 that was obtained. Make a dilution to an OD600 of 0.05.

  5. Fill the wells with different amounts of rhamnose (from 50 g / L stock) and sterile water.

  6. Fill the wells with 180 ul LB + cells, or solely 180 ul LB.

  7. When all the wells are filled, measure the fluorescence and OD600 in a plate reader in time (at a temperature of 30°C).

Characterization of the surface of the samples

  1. A tooth sample is cleaned and disinfected by ethanol bath overnight

  2. The tooth is then carefully broken down into smaller parts

  3. Three of these pieces are then selected based on the size and shape, taking the three cubical pieces with more resemblance

  4. Keep the samples in ethanol, so they stay sterile before their use

Biofilm formation on the surface

  1. Cells csgA+Hydroxyapatite+RFP affinity tag positive after induction are taken from a cryostock/plate and cultured overnight in LB media. It is important to also grow two cultures that can be used as a control, making the total number of samples 3

  2. The cultures are then dropped in a sterile, empty 12-wells plate. After that, the dental samples are placed in the middle of one well

  3. Next to the dental sample, Rhamnose solution is added to the dish to a final concentration of 0.5%. After this step, the plate is left for induction for 20-40 hours

Hydroxyapatite-tag strength test

  1. The fluorescence of the samples is then measured Typhoon fluorescence reader, after two immersions in water

  2. The samples are then placed in a tube and rinsed with 1 ml of ethanol. The mixture is left 5 minutes so all the cells can detach from the tooth

  3. Then, the ethanol solutions are taken from the tube and placed in a 96-well plate, and the RFP intensity is measured using a fluorescence plate reader

Grow a ∆csgA - csgA and ∆csgA – csgA-His strain at 37°C overnight in LB medium.

Measure the OD600. Make a ~50x dilution and grow the liquid cultures at 37°C for 1.5h.

Measure the OD600 again. If the OD600 is between 0.35 and 0.6 (exponential phase) , the induction can be made.

Induce the cells with Rhamnose (from 50 g / L stock) and sterile water. You need to have a final concentration of 0.5 wt% Rhamnose. The induction has to be performed at 30°C.

After 5 hours of induction, measure the OD600 and disrupt the cells.

Run SDS-PAGE gel with protein marker and samples (use pre-stained protein marker)

Transfer protein from gel to membrane:

  1. Soak 2 x filter thick paper and the gel in transfer buffer.

  2. Soak 1 x PVDF membrane in 100% methanol, then water, then transfer buffer or use cellulose membranes soaked only in transfer buffer.

  3. Make sandwich: filter bottom paper, membrane, gel (upside down), filter top paper.

  4. Roll out bubbles with glass pipette.

  5. Attach top electrode plate.

  6. Transfer 40 min at 15V.

  7. Development blot with Supersignal West pico kit (Pierce):

    1. Block blot membrane in 5% milk or BSA in TBS-T, on orbital shaker 1 hour (RT) to overnight (cold room).

    2. Add anti-His-HRP antibody (dilution 1:5000) in blocking solution and incubate on orbital shaker for 1h at room temperature.

    3. Wash 4 x 10min with TBS-T on orbital shaker, RT.

    4. Detection (Supersignal West pico kit)

        Put blot membrane on Saran wrap

      1. Mix 1.5 ml detection reagent 1 and 1.5 ml detection reagent just before use

      2. Pipette 3 mL of mix detection reagent on blot (make sure there is even distribution on the membrane)

      3. Incubate 5 minutes at RT in dark

      4. detect chemiluminescence with CCD camera (Biorad Imager in Biobrick)

Materials

1 % w/v Sodium alginate

0.1M CaCl2

0.1M sodium citrate (monobasic)

5 % w/v L-Rhamnose

Preparation bio-ink

Grow cells overnight in ~ 5mL LB + CAM.

Spin down cells at 4000 rpm for 3 min

Discard supernatant

Resuspend pellet in 100 μL LB and transfer to 1.5 mL tube

Add 55.6 μL 5% w/v rhamnose to get a 0.5% rhamnose concentration

Add 400 μL alginate and vortex

Printing

Make line with pipet (~10-20 μL each) on plasma cleaned cover slip

Place cover slip onto a tissue

Add CaCl2 by dripping it on the alginate lines with pipet

Place the cover slip in vertical position on the tissue to remove most of the CaCl2

Retake above steps for the second line

Store

Put a tissue in a petri dish and make it wet

Put a piece of parafilm on top and place the sample on top of the parafilm

Store at room temperature

After induction with rhamnose wait at least 24h before dissolving the hydro gel

Dissolving gel

Place cover slip onto a tissue

Add sodium citrate by dripping it on the alginate lines with pipet

Place the cover slip in vertical position on the tissue to remove most of the sodium citrate

Store sample again in the petri dish

  1. Make an overnight culture of the cells containing the plasmid with csgA, using LB+CAM, at 37ºC and 220 RPM

  2. Dilute the cultures to a final OD600 of 0.05, by taking a small part of the overnight culture and adding LB+CAM

  3. Let the cultures grow at 37ºC and 220 RPM until the OD600 reaches a value between 0.4-0.6

  4. Induce the cultures with different concentrations of L-rhamnose, from 0% to 1%

  5. Add a small volume (1%) of the sample directly on the grid of the TEM

  6. Take pictures of the visualized bacteria

Gel making

  1. Grow BFP_SpyCatcher_His (TOP10) and empty TOP10 strain at 37°C overnight in LB medium.

  2. Measure the OD600. As the OD600 will probably be high (>2.5), make a ~50x dilution and grow the liquid cultures at 37°C for ~2h.

  3. Measure the OD600 again. If the OD600 is between 0.4 and 0.6 (exponential phase), continue to step 4.

  4. Fill the wells with different amounts of arabinose (from 100 g / L stock) and sterile water.

  5. Fill the wells with 180 ul LB + cells, or solely 180 ul LB.

  6. When all the wells are filled, measure the fluorescence and OD600 in a plate reader in time (at a temperature of 30°C).

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