IGEM:IMPERIAL/2008/New/Protocols/XL1-Blue preparation
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Preparation of XL1-Blue Electrocompetent cells
Aims
Preparation of E. coli cells for the cloning of Biobricks and construct construction
Equipment
Centrifuge(s)
Sterile Centrifugation bottles
50mL Tubes
Large Flasks
Eppendorf Tubes
P200 Pipette
Stripettes
Reagents
1 litre of LB medium
Tetracycline
1-2 litres of autoclaved and chilled ddH2O
10% glycerol in ddH2O, autoclaved and chilled
Dry ice bath
Protocol
Keep Everything Cold where possible
Set aside an afternoon for this, starting the culture in the morning
Check the culture while growing frequently
- Grow up a culture of E. coli XL1-blue cells overnight
- Add 20mL of overnight culture to 1 litre of LB medium (containing 20μg/ml Tetracycline)
- Grow cells while mixing at at least 225rpm until the culture reaches an OD600nm of 0.5-0.6 (1.6-1.9×108cells/ml)
- Test OD immediately after innoculating the litre flask.
- First doubling may take 1 hour but doublings after that should be very 20-30 mins, so check often!
- When OD is 0.5-0.6, transfer the culture to 2 sterile 500mL centrifugation bottles and cool on ice for a few minutes
- Pellet cells in a centrifuge at 4000×g for 15 mins
- Quickly but carefully pour off the supernatant then carefully resuspend the cells in 10mL of ice cold ddH2O
- Fill both tubes to about 350mL with ice cold ddH2O
- Make sure the pellet is fully resuspended!
- Repellet the cells (as before) and again discard the supernatant
- Resuspend cells again in 10mL of ddH2O, then fill both tubes up to about 150mL with ice cold ddH2O
- Repellet the cells (as before)
- While repelleting, fill the dry ice bath and set up Eppendorf tubes (approximately 50) in a rack in the dry ice bath
- Pour off the supernatant and resuspend the cells in 20mL of 10% glycerol (resuspend one pellet then transfer the solution to the other bottle and resuspend the second pellet)
- Transfer the cells and glycerol solution to a sterile 50mL centrifuge tube and pellet for 15 mins at 4000×g
- Pour off supernatant and resuspend pellet in 2mL of 10% glycerol
- Pipette 50μL aliquots into the Eppendorfs in the dry ice bath
- Freeze on dry ice
- Depending on pipetting accuracy, between 50 and 60 aliquots should be made
- using a repeating pipetter (we have these in the SBL lab!We have these in both labs!) makes this process much faster and reduces risk of contamination
- Store at -70°C
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