BioBricks construction tutorial

Contacts

Barry Canton, Jason Kelly, Will Bosworth

Aim

Describe the steps of a standard BioBricks assembly for two parts and include images of expected results (e.g., gels, seq files, etc). This will provide a walkthrough for someone new to BioBricks construction to practice with parts that are known together well.

Steps

Assumed starting point is from glycerol stocks of insert and vector.

Streak plates of insert and vector from glycerol stocks

How to streak a plate

• Antibiotic Used:
• Incubation Time:
• Image of Plate after growth

Grow 5ml Cultures of each from a single colony

• Cellular chassis: ?
• Growth media: ?
• Antibiotic: ?
• Growth Temperature: ?C
• Spin speed: ?rpm
• Incubation Time: ?hrs
• Final OD₆₀₀:

Miniprep plasmid DNA from cultures

• Prep concentration vector: ?ng/μl (?μl elution volume)
• Prep concentration insert: ?ng/μl (?μl elution volume)

Restriction digest insert and vector with appropriate enzymes

• Vector restriction enzymes used:
• Insert restriction enzymes used:
• Incubation time:

Run vector and insert on a gel

• Voltage: ?V
• Current: ?A
• Electrophoresis Time: ?mins
• Image of successful gel. Any images of failed gels can be put on the common agarose gel problems page and linked to. Of course there won't be any failed gels.

Transform ligation product into competent cells

Can use electroporation or chemical transformation

Screen colonies for correct plasmid by colony PCR

<show picture of plate under FL light here, to show the sucessful transformants glowing.> Should probably point out that it's usually not this easy to screen. We can also tell them to pick a couple that glow and a couple that don't to confirm that the colony pcr does a good job at predicting a successful tranformation.

Make glycerol and sequence DNA

Expected lengths? Include links to the parts registry and description of how to find parts?