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Chlamydomonas Protocol

Cultivation

Media

To be able to work with C. reinhardtii, you will need medium. This medium can be in either liquid or solid form and is essential for any experiment regarding C. reinhardtii. The media we used for C. reinhardtii is TAP medium.

Media 0,5 L 1,8L
40 x TAP/TA/TAPi 12,5 ml 20 ml
40 x Beijerink Salts 12,5 ml 20 ml
Trace Elements (revised) 3,5 ml 5,6 ml
H2O 471,5 ml 754,4 ml
For Plates: + Agar (1,8 %) 7,2 g 14,4 g

Tap Medium should be adjusted to 7,0 - 7,2 pH and autoclaved.


Stocks

40 x TAP 1L autoclave, store at 4°C
Tris (121,14 g/mol) 96,8 g (0,8 M)
1 M (K) PO4 40 ml (40 mM)

adjust pH 7.0-7.2 with conc. AcOH (~44ml)


40 x TA 1L autoclave, store at 4°C
Tris (121,14 g/mol) 96,8 g (0,8 M)

adjust pH 7.0-7.2 with conc. AcOH (~44ml)


40 x TAPi 1L autoclave, store at 4°C
Tris (121.14 g/mol) 96,8 g (0,8 M)
1 M K2HPO3 120.08 g/mol 40ml (40mM)

adjust pH 7.0-7.2 with conc. AcOH (~44ml)


1 M (K)PO4 MW(g/mol) conc. 420 ml
K2HPO4 ∙3 H2O 228,22 1 M; 228 g/l ≈0,6 M; 136 g/l
K2HPO4 136,09 1 M; 136 g/l ≈ 0,4 M; 55,08 g/l

250 ml 1 M K2HPO4 + ca. 170 ml KH2PO4 , adjust to pH 7, autoclave, store at 4°C

1 M (K)PO3 MW(g/mol) conc. 1 l
K2HPO3 120.086 1 M; 120.086 g/l ≈1 M; 120.086 g/l

K2HPO3 was obtained by Haihang co. ltd. (13977-65-6) Autoclave, store at 4°C

40 x Beijerinck salts 1 L autoclave, store at 4°C
NH 4Cl 16 g
CaCl2 ∙2H 2O 2 g
MgSO 4 ∙7H 2O 4 g

Trace Elements (revised)

To make the trace elements following publication was used:
Kropat, J., Hong-Hermesdorf, A., Casero, D., Ent, P., Castruita, M., Pellegrini, M., …
Malasarn, D. (2011). A revised mineral nutrient supplement increases biomass and growth rate in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
The Plant Journal, 66(5), 770–780. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04537.x


Additives

Additive (optional) Working Concentration
Arginin 100 µg/ml
Paromomycin 10-12 µg/ml
Hygromycin 10 µg/ml
Ampicillin 100-500 µg/ml

Cultures

Generally, all C. reinhardtii strains we used are stored as stocks in agar-tubes at room temperature of and a light intensity of 150µE . To start a liquid culture, these were picked and resuspended in TAP medium, placed in a shaking incubator at 110 rpm and 150 µE. Cultures were subsequently split to remain at a cell density of 10^7 . Successfully transformed clones were plated on TAP-agar plates (with 10 µg/ml antibiotics) and incubated in a light incubator under continuous light conditions at room temperature.

Transformation (Electroporation)

For the nuclear transformation of our C. reinhardtii strains, we chose the electroporation method. Transforming of L1-constructs was performed as a co-transformation with a plasmid conferring antibiotic resistance to select for cells that were transformed successfully.

  1. Grow a C. reinhardtii culture in TAP medium, shaking at 110 rpm unter alternating temperature and light cycles (14 h 40-60 µmol photons m-2 s-1 at 25 °C and 10 h darkness at 18 °C). Grow cells for 10 days, diluting the culture every 48-72 h to keep them in the logarithmic growth phase. The cell density for transformation should be around 1-2 x 10^6 cells/ml
  2. Harvest cells and start transformation 1-2 h before switching from light to dark conditions. Centrifuge cells (2500 g for 10 min at RT) and resuspend pellet in ME-Suc buffer to a cell density of 1 x 10^8 cells/ml. Aliquot 500 µL of the cell suspension in 2 ml Eppendorf tubes.
  3. Heat shock cells, then incubate for 30 min at 40ºC in a thermomixer, while gently mixing at 350 rpm. Let cells recover for 30 min at RT.
  4. Prepare a 24-well plate with 600 µL TAP medium in each well.

  5. Electroporation conditions. List of optimal electroporation parameters for different C. reinhardtii strains for the use with the NEPA21 electroporator.
    Strain Cell wall Voltage pulse length interval No. of pulses decay rate polarity
    Strain
    CC-3403 no 200 V 8 ms 50 ms 2 40% +
    UVM-4 no 200 V 8 ms 50 ms 2 40% +
    SAG32-11b yes 300 V 12 ms 50 ms 1 40% +
    2. Transfer pulse (same for all strains)
    all strains 20 V 50 ms 50 ms 5 40% +/-

  6. Transformtation
    1. Choose electroporation conditions for the desired strain according to Table 1
    2. One electroporation requires: 38 µL of heat-shocked cells, 0.5 g of antibiotic-resistance marker plasmid and 0.5 µg of the plasmid to be transformed. Combine cells with plasmids for 5 electroporations (see Table 2 below).
    3. Electroporation mix.
      resistance marker plasmid (1 µg/µl) 5x 0.5 µg 2.5 µ
      L1-construct plasmid (1 µg/µl) 5x 0.5 µg 2.5 µ
      cells (1 x 10 <8 cells/ml) 5x 38 µl 190 µl
    4. Fill a 2 mm electroporation cuvette with 40 µL of cell-mixture. Carefully monitor the resistance of the solution and keep it around 400-500 Ω.
    5. To collect the transformed cells after electroporation, transfer 600 µL fresh TAP medium from the recovery plate into the cuvette, then place mix back in the well. Repeat this process with the remaining electroporation mix. Use the same cuvette for all 5 electroporations of the mixture.
    6. Seal recovery plate with parafilm and incubate overnight with gentle shaking (110 rpm) under continuous light (50 µmol m-2 s-1).
  7. The following day, place cells from one well (600 µL) gently onto one TAP-Agar plate with 10 µg/ml antibiotics. Incubate the sealed plates at room temperature under continuous light for 7-14 days until single colonies are visible to the naked eye.

Colony Screening PCR

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E. coli Protocols

Cultivation

Media & Plates

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Overnight Cultures

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Transformation

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DNA-Isolation

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Synthesis Protocols

Sequence & Primer Design

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PCR

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Digestion

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Ligation

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General

Gel Electrophoresis

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Protein Expression: SDS-page

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Workflow

Plasmid assembly

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