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'''Instructors:''' [http://web.mit.edu/be/people/engelward.htm Bevin Engelward], Shannon Hughes-Alford, [[Natalie Kuldell]], [[User:AgiStachowiak| Agi Stachowiak]] | '''Instructors:''' [http://web.mit.edu/be/people/engelward.htm Bevin Engelward], [[User:Shannon K. Alford |Shannon Hughes-Alford]], [[Natalie Kuldell]], [[User:AgiStachowiak| Agi Stachowiak]] | ||
'''TA:''' Jenny Kay (Engelward Lab) <br> | '''TA:''' Jenny Kay (Engelward Lab) <br> | ||
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[[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 4 DNA ligations and bacterial transformations| Day 4: DNA ligation and bacterial transformation]]<br> | [[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 4 DNA ligations and bacterial transformations| Day 4: DNA ligation and bacterial transformation]]<br> | ||
[[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 5 Examine candidate clones & tissue culture| Day 5: Examine candidate clones & introduction to tissue culture]]<br> | [[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 5 Examine candidate clones & tissue culture| Day 5: Examine candidate clones & introduction to tissue culture]]<br> | ||
[[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 6 Lipofection & lab practical| Day 6: Lipofection & lab | [[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 6 Lipofection & lab practical| Day 6: Lipofection & lab certification]]<br> | ||
[[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 7 FACS analysis| Day 7: FACS analysis]]<br> | [[20.109(F12): Mod 1 Day 7 FACS analysis| Day 7: FACS analysis]]<br> | ||
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Module 1
Instructors: Bevin Engelward, Shannon Hughes-Alford, Natalie Kuldell, Agi Stachowiak
TA: Jenny Kay (Engelward Lab)
In this experimental module you will modify the gene for EGFP (Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein) to truncate the protein it encodes. Cells expressing the full-length protein glow green when exposed to light of the appropriate wavelength. You will be designing and then creating an expression vector to delete the first 32 amino acids of EGFP. Cells transfected with your expression vector should not glow green, a prediction you will test. You will also test whether this N-terminally truncated EGFP can recombine with a C-terminally truncated version to regenerate full length EGFP in vivo. Finally, you will have the opportunity to suggest changes to the experimental protocol that will increase the frequency of green cells in which there has been an inter-plasmid recombination event. We will then choose a few variables to test on the final day of the experiment.
Lablinks: day by day
Day 1: DNA engineering using PCR
Day 2: Clean and cut DNA
Day 3: Agarose gel electrophoresis
Day 4: DNA ligation and bacterial transformation
Day 5: Examine candidate clones & introduction to tissue culture
Day 6: Lipofection & lab certification
Day 7: FACS analysis
Assignments
summary of Module 1 assignments
DNA engineering lab certifications
Online cloning lab and defense
FACS data analysis and defense
DNA engineering powerpoint summary and notes
blog assignment
References
- DNA double-strand break repair: From mechanistic understanding to cancer treatment
DNA Repair 2007
Thomas Helleday, Justin Lo, Dik C. van Gent, Bevin P. Engelward
URL
Sample Animation Animations were made by Justin Lo (BE class of '08), a former UROP student in Professor Engelward's laboratory! - Homologous recombination as a mechanism of carcinogenesis
Biochim Biophys Acta 21 March 2001
Bishop AJ and Schiestl RH
URL - Rad51-deficient vertebrate cells accumulate chromosomal breaks prior to cell death
EMBO J 15 January 1998
E Sonoda, M S Sasaki, J M Buerstedde, O Bezzubova, A Shinohara, H Ogawa, M Takata, Y Yamaguchi-Iwai, and S Takeda M
URL