Template:Team:Groningen/CONTENT/EXPERIMENTS/Competent E. coli 2
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A colony was picked from a plate (± 14 days old, stored in fridge) and grown overnight in liquid media (5 mL LB in 50 mL tube) in shaker incubator at 37 °C, 200 rpm
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Transferred overnight culture in fresh LB (pre-warmed). 250 µL culture in 25 mL LB (1/100 dilution) and grown in shaker incubator at 37 °C, 200 rpm for 2 hours.
Used culture for making competent cells (protocol Clement).
Tested competence of competent E. coli with Transformation efficiency kit (BBa_J04450, 50 pg/µL). Protocol: Heat Shock transformation (protocolbook).
1 µL of 50 pg/µL BBa_J04450
Plate on LB agar + CM:
100% (100µL)
Grown overnight in incubator at 37 °C.