Team:Paris Bettencourt/Notebook/VitaminB2
13/07
Almost no difference between the PCR and their corresponding negative control.
It could be the fallout of the limited number of cycles. (We only used 12 cycles, as advised by IDT)
NEB Tm calculator gave really different Tm for the PCR primers than Geneious and IDT.
We decided to launch two PCR, both with 35 cycles, but with two different annealing
temperature: 52 and 64°C.
14/07
Launched the two different PCR with different Tm.
PCR with high annealing temperature, 35 cycles:
PCR with low annealing temperature, 35 cycles:
After PCR, we ran the PCR products on a TAE - 1% agarose gel (100V, 20min) to check
if the amplification product correspond to the expected size of the gBlocks.
The bands are not really specific and seems to be smeared over the gel.
However, we can see that the extremity of each band correspond approximatively
to the expected size of our parts, except RibD amplified at 64°C for which no band has been detected. We purified our PCR product according to the previously used protocol,
and then measure the DNA concentration using a Nanodrop.
16/07
Annealing of o15.011 (TCGACCATGCTTGTCTTCGAAGACTTGGGGGAT) and o15.012 (CTAGATCCCCCAAGTCTTCGAAGACAAGCATGG) using the following protocol:
Inoculate LB + erythromycin (150ng/μL) with g15.21 containing pKV6.
Inoculate M17 + erythromycin (10ng/μL) with g15.13 containing pSIP411.
17/07
Miniprep of g15.13 and g15.21 as describe below:
As g15.13 is a gram positive bacteria, we added 1mL of 10mg/mL Lysozyme at the same time that the cell lysis solution.
Measurement of DNA concentration
20/07
-Annealing of o15.072 (TCGACCATGCTTGTCTTCGAAGACTTGGGGGAG) and o15.073 (AATTCTCCCCCAAGTCTTCGAAGACAAGCATGG) thanks to the protocol used previously. -PCR of pSIP411 ORI and resistance cassette (erythromycin) using o15.070 and o15.071. We will call it pSIPnew to write clearer explanations. The size of this fragment is 3.1kb, so the elongation phase was extended to 2min. a negative PCR control was made at the same time (without matrix DNA). PCR purification after the PCR and concentration measurement:
21/07
Digestion of amplified band of pSIP411 and pKV6 with respectively XbaI/SalI and EcoRI and SalI using the following protocol.
For pSIP411: SalI and XbaI, 30μL of DNA (99ng/μL), 66μL of water.
For pKV6: SalI and EcoRI, 10μL of DNA(270ng/μL), 86μL of water.
PCR purification of both digested pKV6 and pSIPnew
- Received gBlocks RibA, RibD, RibE, RibT25 and RibT48 and amplification oligos from IDT. Dilution in water and PCR amplification, using the following protocol:
- 1 μL gBlock (0.1 to 1ng)
- 1 μL forward primer (10 μM)
- 1 μL reverse primer (10 μM)
- 22 μL DNAse/RNAse free water
- 25 μL LifeTech MasterMix (2X)
- Add 5 volumes of resuspension buffer to 1 volume of PCR product in an 1.5mL microcentrifuge tube, mix by pipetting up and down
- Transfer in a centrifugation column
- Centrifuge 1 min at 14000 rpm
- Throw the filtration product
- Add 700μL of washing solution
- Centrifuge 1 min at 14000 rpm
- Throw the filtration product
- Add 500μL of washing solution
- Centrifuge 1 min at 14000 rpm
- Throw the filtration product
- Centrifuge 1 min at 14000 rpm
- Throw the filtration product
- Put the column in a sterile 1.5mL microcentrifuge tube
- Add 45μL of DNAse/RNAse free water on the membrane
- Wait 2 minutes
- Centrifuge 2min at 10000rpm
- Discard the column, DNA is saved in water
12 cycles amplification, using the following parameters:
time (min) | temperature (°C) | function |
3:00 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 52 | annealing |
1:00 | 72 | extension |
10:00 | 72 | extension |
forever | 12 | storage |
|
[PCR product with gBlock] (ng/μL) | [PCR product without gBlock] (ng/μL) | |
RibA | 3.5 | 3.4 |
RibD | 6.4 | 3.3 |
RibE | 5.0 | 3.7 |
RibT25 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
RibT48 | 8.7 | 3.3 |
It could be the fallout of the limited number of cycles. (We only used 12 cycles, as advised by IDT)
NEB Tm calculator gave really different Tm for the PCR primers than Geneious and IDT.
We decided to launch two PCR, both with 35 cycles, but with two different annealing
temperature: 52 and 64°C.
14/07
Launched the two different PCR with different Tm.
PCR with high annealing temperature, 35 cycles:
time (min) | temperature (°C) | function |
3:00 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 64 | annealing |
1:00 | 72 | extension |
10:00 | 72 | extension |
forever | 12 | storage |
PCR with low annealing temperature, 35 cycles:
time (min) | temperature (°C) | function |
3:00 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 98 | melting |
0:30 | 64 | annealing |
1:00 | 72 | extension |
10:00 | 72 | extension |
forever | 12 | storage |
After PCR, we ran the PCR products on a TAE - 1% agarose gel (100V, 20min) to check
if the amplification product correspond to the expected size of the gBlocks.
From left to right: 1kb Ladder, RibA, D, E, T25 and T48 amplified at 52°C and Rib A, D, E, T25 and T48 amplified at 64°C |
The bands are not really specific and seems to be smeared over the gel.
However, we can see that the extremity of each band correspond approximatively
to the expected size of our parts, except RibD amplified at 64°C for which no band has been detected. We purified our PCR product according to the previously used protocol,
and then measure the DNA concentration using a Nanodrop.
Part Name | PCR product amplified at 52°C concentration (ng/μL) | PCR product amplified at 64°C concentration (ng/μL) |
RibA | 54.3 | 132.7 |
RibD | 50.5 | 140.2 |
RibE | 67.1 | 78.2 |
RibT25 | 63.6 | 136.0 |
RibT48 | 61.2 | 143.1 |
16/07
Annealing of o15.011 (TCGACCATGCTTGTCTTCGAAGACTTGGGGGAT) and o15.012 (CTAGATCCCCCAAGTCTTCGAAGACAAGCATGG) using the following protocol:
Annealing Protocol
|
Inoculate LB + erythromycin (150ng/μL) with g15.21 containing pKV6.
Inoculate M17 + erythromycin (10ng/μL) with g15.13 containing pSIP411.
17/07
Miniprep of g15.13 and g15.21 as describe below:
Miniprep protocol using a QIAGEN kit
|
As g15.13 is a gram positive bacteria, we added 1mL of 10mg/mL Lysozyme at the same time that the cell lysis solution.
Measurement of DNA concentration
20/07
-Annealing of o15.072 (TCGACCATGCTTGTCTTCGAAGACTTGGGGGAG) and o15.073 (AATTCTCCCCCAAGTCTTCGAAGACAAGCATGG) thanks to the protocol used previously. -PCR of pSIP411 ORI and resistance cassette (erythromycin) using o15.070 and o15.071. We will call it pSIPnew to write clearer explanations. The size of this fragment is 3.1kb, so the elongation phase was extended to 2min. a negative PCR control was made at the same time (without matrix DNA). PCR purification after the PCR and concentration measurement:
Concentration (ng/μL) | |
pSIPnew | 99.0 |
negative control | 0.0 |
21/07
Digestion of amplified band of pSIP411 and pKV6 with respectively XbaI/SalI and EcoRI and SalI using the following protocol.
Digestion Protocol
|
For pSIP411: SalI and XbaI, 30μL of DNA (99ng/μL), 66μL of water.
For pKV6: SalI and EcoRI, 10μL of DNA(270ng/μL), 86μL of water.
PCR purification of both digested pKV6 and pSIPnew