Team:UCLA/Notebook/Honeybee Silk/5 August 2015
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- Analyzing dry film test.
- Weight of 100 ul SDS solution after drying = 3.3mg
- 5/26 Silk = 3.5 mg (subtracting the 3.3 mg of SDS = 0.2 mg
- 7/29 silk = 20.5 mg or 17.2 mg after controlling for SDS.
- This corresponds to 0.2 weight by volume percent for the 5/26 Silk and 4 mg total for the 250 ml culture.
- Corresponds to a 17.2 w/v% for the 7/29 silk and 129 mg total for the 100 ml culture
- Once again, keep in mind that this is not necessarily all honeybee silk, and could be cellular debris and other contaminating proteins.
Starting 300ml Culture of Honeybee Silk
- 300 ml LB and 300 ul KAN, with one colony.
- Inoculated at noon
- At 4PM the OD was 0.06
- At 5:40 PM the OD was 0.56
- At that point added 150 ul of 1M IPTG (0.5mM)
- Will incubate overnight.
- After overnight incubation, the OD was 2.42