Team:HK SSC/Notebook

17 July

Transformation of dcas9 plasmid 2019 kit plate 5 well 22N

to E. coli NEB5a using kanamycin resistance plate

 

19 July

Picked 6 colonies

grow overnight in LB

Plasmid purification (Takara)

colony 1 & 2 did not grow

run agarose gel for 100v 30 mins

eluted DNA using 30ul elution buffer

nanodrop the eluted DNA

 

22 July

Plasmid prep

Run gel for dCas9

Resuspend DNA

 

23 July

Assembling Fragment 1+2+3

restriction endonuclease cut + ligation

Using NheI and BssSI-v2

Dcas9 preparation clean

Run gel dCas9

Transformed produce to E.coli neb5a

Cloned GFP to dcas9

restriction endonuclease cut + ligation

Using EcorI NsiI

Transformed product to E.coli neb5a

Transformed puc19 from stock (for cloning sgrna later)

 

1 Aug

Cyanobacteria arrived, cultured in 15x4 ml medium

GFP-dcas9 plasmid ligation (all failed)

 

2 Aug

Colony PCR for L2, 3, 4

PCR Fragment 1, 2, 3

Plasmid purification

 

6 Aug

colony PCR

standard q5 PCR preperation for gibson

Gibson assembly

GFP+ dCas9 plasmid again as L3 Failed

 

 

 

 

7 Aug

gel purification after 75v 45min 0.7 gel

gibson assembly

run gel for overnight sgrna PCR product

restriction endonuclease cut (PstI, HindIII)(2hrs incubation)+ligation for sgRNA and PETblue

transformed 3in1, PETblue sgRNA and L3 into NEB5a

 

8 Aug

Colony PCR for l3

Run gel for 3in1 (1 smear),

Pick clone

 

9 August

Checked plates for sgRNA PETblue McyI(no colony)

sgRNA pet blue McyI(no colony)

sgRNA pet blue Mcyb (no colony)

3 in 1(no colony)

Gib 2.1(no colony)

Gib 2.2(no colony)

Conducted PCR purification of overnight (14h) restriction endonuclease cut of dCas9 GFP using EcoRI, NsiI

50 μL rxn mixture

Conducted ligation

1:3 & 1:5

Vector 250ng

20 μL rxn mixture

Placed in room temperature for 10 min

heat inactive at 65°c for 10 min

on ice 90min

then add ligase again

ligate over weekend.

Amplified Fragment1 + 2 + 3

sgrna McyI, sgRNA McyB, GFP

Fragment 1 2 3 GFP, 65c

sgRNA 55c

All 50 μL rxn

Weight powder, for soc (800ml no glucose) (no yellow)

LB agar (have yellow) 1800ul

Glucose 9g

Run gel for all 6 Fragments (all in)

75V 45 mins

Ladder use 1kb & 50bp

Loading dye 6x

Gel purification -elute using 30ul elution buffer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 August

Colony PCR for those without bands reaction

picked colonies from master plate

Performed gibson(gib3) & nebuilder

Scaled down to 10ml rxn

PCR for xgib 1 (Fragment1) gib1 (Fragment1)

xgib 2 (Fragment2) gib2 (Fragment2)

xgib 3 (Fragment3) gib3 (Fragment3)

 

Colony PCR no.24 correct band

(dCas9 GFP) L3

band size 700-800 bp

inoculated 24 Hours (picked from master plate)

 

Transformed gibson 1 gibson 2 gibson 3.2 nebuilder (1)

+ve control petblue nebuilder (2)

dcas9 gfp 1:3

dcas9 gfp 1:5

gibson 3.1

 

13 August

Run gel for previous PCR

Checked plates from 12/8

Colony: PETblue +ve

dCas9 GFP 1:3

dCas9 GFP 1:5

Plasmid purification L3

dCas9-GFP 24

 

Restriction endonuclease for Fragment1-3 ( for gibson assembly)

McyI, McyB

 

14 August

Run gel for xgib Fragment 1

no bands at all

Possibly due to pipetting errors.

Started 10ul reaction using gibson concentration according to following gel. (pic gib4)

Reaction: Fragment3: 50ng

Fragment2: 38.73ng

Fragment1: 29.26ng

nebuilder: 5ul

h2o

 

1)    Set up PCR reaction for xgib Fragment2

Xgib Fragment3

 

98°c

98°c

66°c

72°c

72°c

4°c

30sec

5sec

15sec

1.5min

2min

¥

 

 

 

2)    Transformed gib 4.1 gib 4.2

Overnight ligation sgrna McyI petblue

Sgrna Mcyb PETblue

gib -0.9ul dna

sgrna -2ul

 

3)    Checked plates for previous transformation: gib 3 in 1 -

gib2 - no colonierom last year -PETblue stock - there are colonies

 

4)    Picked 6 colonies from PETblue

PETblue 1-3 -3ml (with amp)

PETblue 4-5 -2ml

Master plate -no xgal iptg

 

5)    Run gel for PCR products

Fragment 2, Fragment 3 xgib

Gel purification

DNA concentration on 13/8

 

15 August

 

Restriction endonuclease cut for Fragment1 Fragment 2 and Fragment 3

Xgib ~6 hr (MluI, BssaI and NheI)

nanodrop before restriction endonuclease cut

Set up gibson reaction

Fragment 3 50ng 16ul

Fragment 2 38.73ng 2.1 ul

Fragment 1 29.26ng 0.4ul

Nebuilder 10ul

H2o 5.9ul

50°c for 2hr (optimized protocol)

 

Plasmid purification of PETblue

eluted using 30ul elution buffer

nanodrop

 

Gib 4.1 -PETblue McyB plasmid have 1 colony each

picked & inoculated

 

 

PCR purified restriction endonuclease cuts from (Fragment 1, 2, 3)

ligated h3 & 3 in 1

1+3 1:1

1+2+3 1:1:1

Sequencing

 

 

16 August

 

Plasmid purification of

Gib4.1 & pet blue McyB plasmid from 1518

Gib4.1 does not seem to grow during inoculation therefore, low yield.

Run gel for Fragment 1+3 & 3in1 (ligated)

Intended to amp 1+3 using 3f + 1r and 3r + 1f

Intended to check gib4 using 1+2, 2+3, 1+3 primers.

3 and 4 failed possibly due to PCR errors

use 3 mins extension 65°c other times and maximum

Intended to check sgRNA Mcyb PETblue using colony PCR

(failed due to 0.7% gel)

 

19 August

Colony PCR for Mcyb sgRNA PETblue

(only 1 white colony)

Results positive: band size ~300bp

Inoculated 2 3ml tubes of gib4

gib4.1 & 4.2

From master plate

Set up overnight PCR to amp mcyI, Fragment1, Fragment3 xgib,

Restriction endonuclease (PstI, HindIII, MluI, BssaI, NheI) cut McyI (247.8ng), PETblue (1000ng), Fragment1 (741ng)- Fragment3 (140ng) overnight [McyI only added 3ul]

Checked neb 3 in 1 using different primers

Checked Fragment 1+3

 

20 August

Run gel for mcyI, Fragment1-3 xgib

gel purification Takara

PCR clean McyI, PETblue 2 from overnight restriction endonuclease cut

Ligated McyI PETblue, Fragment1+3

vector 100ng -vector 100ng

1:3 1:1

Plasmid purification gib6.4

yield extremely low

Picked colonies: 2 from nebuilder 3in1.

2 from gib4 -master plate

2 from sgrRNA McyB PETblue-

 

21 August

Plasmid purifucation for 6 tubes - nebuilder x2, gib4 x2, Sgrna Mcyb PETblue

Collected overnight ligation

amplified Fragment 1+3

Primer Fragment1 f & primer Fragment3 (vice versa also)

Transformed sgRNA McyI PETblue and dCas9 GFP (L3)

Received sanger sequence results

99.4% identical

Mutation

\ wrong

 

Picked 25 colonies from previous l3 plate

colony PCR 25-49 -One Taq

50 - Sapphire

Single cut & double cut 3 in 1 plasmid

all undesired results

 

22 Aug

Gibson assembly, incubate 2h

run gel for colony PCR and Fragment 1+3 and the overnight cut of 3 in 1

For colonies with correct band after colony PCR, pick colony from master plate, inoculate

Fragment 1+3, Fragment 2 re cut,

Send McyB to sequencing

Transform gibson products

Ligate Fragment 2 to 1+3

 

23 Aug

Run gel for PCR dCas9 GFP,

Run gel for PCR 1+3 sgRNA MCYI PETblue

 

26 Aug

Run gel for previous 40 colony PCR

Inoculate l3 with correct band size

Preparation for electroporation

Transform ligation product and 3 in 1 for characterization

 

27 Aug

Pick clone for previous transformation

3 in 1 plasmid purification using ethanol perpetration

Restriction endonuclease cut gib 5 (MluI)

 

28 Aug

PCR screening McyI, McyB

 

29 Aug

Plasmid purification. Using Takara

Inoculate gib 5, prepare for measurement

 

3/9

Restriction endonuclease cut dCas9 GFP (EcoRI, PstI)

 

4/9

Run gel for restriction endonuclease cut dCas9 GFP

 

5/9

Transformation inoculate PETblue, Puc19, 3 in 1, PsB1c3 transformants

Plasmid purification 3 in 1 using Takara plasmid purification kit

 

6/9

Plasmid purification 3 in 1 using Takara plasmid purification kit

 

9/9

2 restriction endonuclease cuts (dCas9-GFP-sgRNA)

 

10/9

Run gel for the colony PCR products (1.5 gel, all in) 65v 45 min 700 or no band

Pick colony and colony PCR

Pour agar plate

take the 2 restriction endonuclease cuts from 37c n run gel (1.5 gel 65v 45 min) shd be ~5500bp and ~3500bp

 

11/9

PCR clean for 3 in 1 cut

Run gel for the dcas9 gfp sgrna no. 3 restriction endonuclease cut for dcas9 gfp sgrna (XbaI, XhoI), cut the 5500 band (65v 45 min) (big well) (all in)

Gel purification for the above cut gel (gm buffer 650ul)

Run gel for colony PCR yesterday (1.5 gel)

Set ligation mixture (restriction endonuclease cuts of 3 in 1 and mcy dcas9 gfp) 1:1

 

12/9

Heat inactivate ligation

2. Transform ligation (total dna 60ng)

3. Dilute overnight inoculation, 1 to 3

4. Set restriction endonuclease cut of 3 in 1 and sgrna dcas9 gfp

 

13/9

Measure od (growth curve) for modelling

16/9

Restriction endonuclease cuts for final product (XhoI, XbaI)

Pick colony for growth curve

 

17/9

Growth curve

Run gel for the restriction endonuclease cuts, PCR clean, start ligation

Transform ligation mixture

 

18/9

Transofrmation of final ligation products

Od measurements

 

19/9

pick colony (fat clone)

Transformation final product

 

20/9

Pick clone

PCR check band (Correct band at 12kbp)

Plasmid purification (Takara)

 

 

 

23/9

Pick colony of final product

 

24/9

Plasmid purification (Takara)

 

25/9

Nanodrop final product

 

26/9

Restriction endonuclease cut for final product (PstI)

 

27/9

Run gel for the restriction endonuclease cuts and final product 24 and 15.

All in for restriction endonuclease cuts,

5ul for final product 24 and 15

65v 50min

Nanodrop final product

 

30/9

Transformation

final product plasmid 15 17 24 29(BL21)

 

 

3/10

Observe green fluorescence by UV exposure

Inoculate

Observe green fluorescence again by UV exposure

All negative

 

4/10

Plasmid purification of final product

 

7/10

Transformation of final products into DH5a

 

8/10

Prepared 0.1mm nacl, 0.1mm hepes, 0.1mm vitb12, all not sterilized. Picked 10 colonies (final product) , inoculated in 20ml LB

 

9/10

Filtered Vitamin B12

Autoclave bold3n

Add to agar

 

10/10

Plasmid purification with ethanol percipitation

 

 

11/10

Measure Optical density (growth curve)

Transformation of Microcystis

Electroporation

Ligation by Peter

DNA purification

 

14/10

Transformation of previous ligation

 

15/10

Pick clones, inoculate i12

Standard solution

 

16/10

Pour plate with kanamycin resistance and chloramphenicol

Takara plasmid purification of insert 1 and insert 2

 

17/10

Peter ethanol precipitation of final product

Electroporation of Microcystis Aeruginosa UTEX 2388

Ligation mixture (cut with SpelI, xbaI)

Run gel for plasmid purification product of I2

Nanodrop I2

Anson adjust pH for BG11

Error: labelling error for plasmid purification

 

18/10

Pick insert 1 and 2 ,BL21 and NEB5a clones