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Introduction

Standards in engineering cell-cell communications.

When engineering prokaryotic cell networks, one of the most difficulties is isolating signals. For one, it's necessary to get various kinds of signals to allow specific communication. In the widely-used quorum-sensing system, the quorum-sensing signal is excreted out of the cells, which in space broadcasts an identical signal to every recipient cell. In spite of the concentration gradient, that means cells with same receptor will be triggered simultaneously. And when trying to engineering a more complex system, the freedom of design is severely limited by available kinds of quorum-sensing signal producers and receptors. But if a framework allows one signal being isolated from another, it will break the those limits and allow different cells being triggered specifically. For another, space isolation is equally important in engineering. Take the isolated wire cable as an example, although all the wires utilized identical electric current as the medium for signal transport, the isolation allows identical electric current in different wires to generate different combinations of signals. While the excreted broadcasting prokaryotic signals are unable to work in this way because they share the same medium or space. Therefore, those requirements bring the problem posed in the field of bioengineering into a general topic in engineering cell-cell communications. It's necessary to establish a system with standards in cell-cell communication with expected isolation and variance in the kinds of signals.

Cell-cell communication platform can serve as the framework of cellular circuits.

Just take the simple case. If a system allows one cell to deliver specific signal to a specific group of cells, any complicated cellular signal systems can be built up with combinations of a proper number of such systems. It will be also feasible to construct a logical network with such framework.

Conjugation can perform as cell-cell specific signal pathway.

It is reported that relaxases can transport fusion proteins to recipient cells during conjugation, such as Cre. Since relaxases are DNA binding proteins, we further postulated that other DNA binding proteins might also be transported into the recipient cells, which would be a potential useful phenomenon in engineering cell-cell communication. Therefore, both the relaxases and the DNA binding proteins are chosen as the transport for cell-cell signals during conjugation. Though extensively studied, the detailed mechanism of conjugation is still controversial. A popular theory postulates that a single strand DNA of host cell is carried to receptive cell by relaxase and then induce rolling replication. Some other works, however, do not support this model. Thus, we chose two kind of DNA binding proteins, including double strand DNA binding protein and single strand DNA binding protein. In both cases, several protein binding sites can be integrated in one conjugation plasmid to allow the transport of multiple copies of the signals to the recipient cells in order to amplify the effecting. The conjugation system has many advantages. First, the signals are transferred from one cell to another in a point-to-point manner, rather than the excreted broadcast way. Second, protein signals can be easily fused to the DNA-binding transport with pre-constructed system, allowing parallel engineering of many different pairs of signal producer and receptor. Third, the protein signal is produced in donor cells and degraded by the receptor cells. This allows reutilization of the same signals and indicates that the cellular network can be reset to the initial condition for reuse. At last, it is facile to find various kinds of protein signal producer/receptor pairs from two hybrid systems.

Prokaryotic two hybrid system is a large pool of specific signals.

During the last two decades, at least three prokaryotic two hybrid system has been established. If the two hybrid system is integrated with the cell-cell signal transport system, they can provide a large pool for specific signals in cell-cell communications.

Strains

Strain	Source
E. coli TOP10	Transgen biotech company, Beijing.
E. coli S17-1	Prof. Chen's lab collection
E. coli JM109	Prof. Chen's lab collection

Plasmids

Plasmid	Source
pEASY-Blunt	Transgen biotech company, Beijing.
pBBR1MCS	Prof. Chen's lab collection
pBluescript II SK(-)	Prof. Chen's lab collection
pMD18-T	Takara, Japan.
pLZZGPp	Prof. Chen's lab collection

Flowchart

The initial part of the project pursuits the verification of relaxase and C1

transport.

Experiment Records

Thread 1: Celcuit carrier plasmids.

Nubmer	Date	Inherit	Chart Index	Notes	Results	Plan	Expected Time	Operator
1	6-20	-	1-1	Anneal the phosphated C1 primers and ligate the annealed primers with T4 DNA ligase for 16 hours.	-	Check the ligation result.	6-21	Peng Dong
2	6-20	-	1-3	Extract the pLZZGPp plasmid. Use HindIII to cut the plasmid and add CIAP to dephosphate the digested plasmid.	-	Recover the digested & dephosphated plasmid.	6-21	Peng Dong
3	6-21	2	1-3	Use DNA extraction kit to purify the digested pLZZGPp plasmid.	Purified digested plasmid.	Ligation.	6-21
4	6-21	1	1-2	Check the ligation products.	6 bands were seen in the gel. The annealed C1 primers are ligated into multiple copies.	Ligation.	6-21	Peng Dong
5	6-21	3,4	1-3	Add the the purified digested pLZZGPp plasmid to the C1 ligation system to insert the C1 fragments into the pLZZGPp plasmid. The negative control ligation used only the digested pLZZGPp plasmids.	-	Transformation.	6-22	Peng Dong
6	6-22	5	1-3	Transformation. The ligation system is transformed into E. coli TOP10 competent cells.	-	Pick clones for verification.	6-23	Peng Dong
7	6-23	6	1-3	8 clones on the ligation plate were picked.	There are 50% more clones on the plate of ligation than on the negative control.	Store the cultures and send them for sequencing.	6-24	Peng Dong
8	6-24	7	1-3	The 8 clones are stored sent to sequencing.	-	Wait for the sequencing results.	6-30	Peng Dong
9	7-9		1-1	Solve the C1 primer and anneal the C1 primer for further ligation.	-	Ligate the C1	8-5	Yexing Liu
10	7-11		1-2	Extract the pLZZGPp plasmid and cut it with HindIII and then apply CIAP for dephosphoration. Ligate the dephosphorated plasmid with C1 fragment by annealing for positive and with dd H2O for negative control and transformation.	-			Keyu Li
11	7-11	9	1-5	PCR amplification to delete the Mob sequence from pBBR1MCS.	No PCR product detected.	Try other conditions.	7-12	Keyu Li
12	7-12	10	1-2	Check the clones on the positive and negative plates.	The numbers of clones on the positive and negative plates do not have significant difference. Especially, there are quite a lot of clones on the negative plates. One problem may attribute to the extremely high density of plasmid.	Try other conditions to reduce the number of negative clones.	7-14	Keyu Li
13	7-12	11	1-5	Use Takara LA Taq with GC buffer to perform gradiant PCR amplification to delete the Mob sequence of pBBR1MCS.	There is PCR product at specific annealing temperature.	Use the optimal PCR contidion to get enough PCR products.	7-14	Keyu Li
14	7-14	12	1-2	Apply both HindIII and CIAP from Fermentas at the same time with Buffer R for overnight.		Rescue the dephosphated pLZZGPp.	7-15	Keyu Li
15	7-14	13	1-5	Use Takara LA Taq with GC buffer to perform PCR to amplify the pBBR1MCS at optimized annealing temperature.	-	Extract the PCR product.	7-15	Keyu Li
16	7-15	14	1-2	Extract the dephosphated  product. Ligate the product with additional dd H2O as negative control assay and transform.	-	Check the plates.	7-16	Keyu Li
17	7-15	15	1-5	Extract the PCR product, and perform phophoration to the PCR product. Ligate the products and trasform.	-	Check the plates.	7-16	Keyu Li
18	7-16	16	1-2	Check the plates.	There are still about 80 clones on the plates.	Need to try further. Wait for Peng Dong's results.	8-2	Keyu Li
19	7-16	15	1-5	Pick the clones from the plate and culture them.	-	Extract plasmids and enzyme digest to check the products.	7-17	Keyu Li
20	7-17	19	1-5	Extract the plasmids and enzyme digest.	Those are correct clones. The mob carrier was successfully constructed. || 　 || 　 || Keyu Li
21	7-28	18	1-2	Get 3 possible clones with Lambda C1 binding sites from Peng Dong. Culture them and the strain with pLZZGPp empty plasmid.		Extract plasmids for enzyme digestion and sequencing.	7-29	Keyu Li
22	7-29	21	1-2	Extract the plasmid and perform enzyme digestion. Send the plasmids for sequencing by M13F general primer.	The enzyme digestion products from the 3 clones do not have significant differences from the pLZZGPp empty plasmid.	Wait for the sequencing results. Try other methods. From Peng Dong's results, we still see that there're a lot of negative clones. The pLZZGPp plasmid may need further modification to serve as a dephosphorated plasmid. Perhaps an additional HindIII site would give better result.	8-2 7-30	Keyu Li
23	7-30	22	1-2	Culture the strains with pGL-3 Basic plasmid and pLZZGPp.	-	Extract the plasmid and digest with KpnI and SalI.	7-31	Keyu Li
24	7-31	23	1-2	Extract the plasmid and digest with KpnI and SalI. Extract the 3.8K fragment from pLZZGPp digestion.	The pGL-3 Basic was not completely digested.	Check the pGL-3 Basic and extract the 2K fragment.	8-1	Keyu Li
25	8-1	24	1-2	Check the KpnI-SalI digestion of pGL-3 Basic plasmid. Extract the 2K fragment from the pGL-3 Basic. Ligate the 2K fragment from pGL-3 Basic and pLZZGPp. Transform.		Check the plates.	8-2	Keyu Li
26	8-2	21	1-3	The 8 sequencing results are analyzed and unfortunately none of them was found to be desired clones.	Failed in construction the clones by Peng Dong.		-	Zhenyu Shi
27	8-2	25	1-2	Culture 4 clones from the positive ligation.	The plate of positive ligation has many more clones than the negative control. || Extract the plasmid and perform enzyme digestion to verify. || 8-3 || Keyu Li
28	8-3	27	1-2	Extract the plasmid and digest with HindIII.	All of the clones are positive.	Extract more plasmid. Use HindIII and CIAP to digest and dephosphorate at the same time.	8-4	Keyu Li
29	8-4	28	1-2	Extract pLZZGPp-pGL plasmid. Use HindIII and CIAP to digest and dephosphorate. Ligate and transform.	The pLZZGPp-pGL was not digested completely.	Check the clones.	8-5	Keyu Li
30	8-5	29	1-2	Digest and dephosphorate again.	There are about more than 200 clones on the plate.	Extract the digested and dephosphorated products.	8-6	Keyu Li
31	8-6	30	1-2	Extract the products. Ligate and transform.	The digestion result was completely and clear.	Check the plates.	8-7	Keyu Li
32	8-7	31	1-2		Only less than 20 clones.	Wait for the phosphorated primer.	8-13	Keyu Li
33	8-14	32	1-1	Dilute the C1 primer to about 6ng/ul, 1.2ng/ul and 2.4ng/ul respectively. Anneal the primer.	-	Insert the primer to pLZZGPp.	8-14	Keyu Li
34	8-15	33	1-2	One group of the annealed primers are pre-ligated for 5 hours and then ligated with pLZZGPp. The other group is ligated with pLZZGPp directly. In addition, pLZZGPp self-ligation was performed as negative control. Transform.	-	Check the plates.	8-16	Keyu Li
35	8-16	34	1-2	Check the plates. Pick 40 clones for colony PCR verfication.	The 6ng/ul with pre-ligation group turn out has 1 times more clones than the negative plate. Two PCR products were found to be significantly longer than the negative contorl.	Send 4 clones for sequencing.	8-17	Keyu Li
36	8-17	35	1-2	Send the clones for sequencing.	-	Wait for sequencing result.	8-21	Keyu Li
37	8-21	36	1-2	2 clones were found to have 3 C1 binding sites.	-	Insert the C1 binding site to pBBR1MCS. Culture pBBR1MCS.	-	Keyu Li
38	8-23	37	1-3	Culturing the E. coli strain harboring the pBBR1MCS plasmid.	-	Extract plasmid and enzyme digestion.	8-24	Keyu Li
39	8-23	37	1-3	PCR clone fragment containing multiple C1 binding sites.	-	Extract the PCR products and enzyme digestion.	8-24	Keyu Li
40	8-24	38,39	1-3	Extract the plasmid and PCR production and Enzyme digestion with SacI and XhoI. Extract the digestion products , ligate and transform. And transform a control system without inserts.	-	Pick clones from the plates.	8-25	Keyu Li
41	8-25	40	1-3	6 clones were picked from the ligation plate for PCR verfication. And correct clones are cultured.	There only hundreds of colonies on the ligation plate but few on control plate. All the 4 clones are verified to be right.			Keyu Li
42	8-25	-	1-1	Use PCR to clone pBBR1MCS to delete the Mob gene with Takara LA Taq. The PCR product was extracted and phosphorated. The phosphorated products was ligated and transformed.		Check the colonies.	8-26	Keyu Li
43	8-26	42	1-2	The colonies on the plate were picked and cultured. Plasmids were extracted and verified by enzyme digestion.	2 clones were found to be right.			Keyu Li

Thread 2: Celcuit Initiator.

Nubmer	Date	Inherit	Chart Index	Notes	Results	Plan	Expected Time	Operator
1	4-28	-	2-3	PCR clone the FLP gene and insert the PCR product into pEASY-B cloning vector. Transform the ligation system.	-	Pick clones.	4-29	Xinyu Zhao
2	4-29	1	2-3	4 clones were picked and cultured.	-	Extract plasmid and perform double digestion verification.	4-30	Xinyu Zhao
3	4-30	2	2-3	Extract the plasmid and use double digest to screen.	Two clones are found to be right.	Wait the sequencing result.	5-4	Xinyu Zhao
4	5-5	3	2-3	The sequencing results were analyzed.	Both the two were found to be correct clones.	Wait for other Fragments and the expression plasmid.	-	Zhenyu Shi
5	5-5	-	2-1	Use PCR to clone the lambda C1 gene and insert the PCR product into pEASY-B cloning vector. Transform the ligation system.	-	Pick clones.		Zhenyu Shi
6	5-5	-	2-2	Use PCR to clone the Mob gene and insert the PCR product into pEASY-B cloning vector. Transform the ligation system.	-	Pick clones.		Zhenyu Shi
7	5-6	5,6	2-1,2-2	4 clones of both lambda C1 and Mob are picked and use PCR to screened.	All the clones are found to be posive in PCR screen.	Send the clones for sequencing.	5-7	Zhenyu Shi
8	5-8	7	2-1,2-2	The clones are sent for sequencing.	-	Wait the sequencing results.	5-12	Zhenyu Shi
9	5-15	8	2-1,2-2	A Mob clone and a C1 clone were found to be correct.	-	Wait for the expression vector.	-	Zhenyu Shi
10	8-4	9	2-4	Use PCR to clone part of the pBluscript II SK(-) vector to construct a vector without T7 promoter. The PCR products were phosphorated, ligated and transformed.	-	Check the transformation result.	8-5	Zhou Yu
11	8-5	10	2-4	Four white colonies were picked and cultured.	There are a lot of white colonies. With dozens of blue colonies.	Verify by enzyme digestion.	8-6	Zhou Yu
12	8-6	11	2-4	Extract the plasmid and verify the results by enzyme digestion. Culture the C1 and Mob cloning plasmid to construct the initiator plasmid. Culture more strains harboring pCCInt.	One of the four clones was found to be correct. The correct clone was named as pCCInt.	Extract the C1 and Mob plasmids.	8-7	Zhou Yu
13	8-7	12	2-4	Extract the C1 and Mob plasmids. The pCCInt was extracted and digested. The FLP gene was PCR cloned from pCP20. And the PCR products was extracted and digested.	The C1 plasmids show very light results.	Use PCR to amplify C1 gene from the cloning plasmid.	8-8	Zhou Yu
14	8-8	13	2-4	Use PCR to Amplify the C1 from the cloning plasmid. Both the C1 PCR products and the Mob plasmids were digested.		Extract the enzyme digestion products and perform ligation.	8-9	Zhou Yu
15	8-9	14	2-4	The FLP, pCCInt, C1 and Mob digestion products were extracted. FLP, pCCInt with either C1 or Mob were ligated and transformed with a control which does not contain C1 or Mob.		Check the two plates.	8-10	Zhou Yu
16	8-10	15	2-4	From either ligation plates, 10 clones were picked to culture for further verification.	There are much more clones on the plates of the positive ligation than the negative controls.	Enzyme digestion and sequencing.	8-11	Zhou Yu
17	8-11	16	2-4	Plasmids were extracted from all the 20 cultures were and digested.	6 of the FLP-C1 clones and 8 of the FLP-Mob clones were seemed to be correct.	Send for sequencing.	8-13	Zhou Yu
18	8-13	17	2-4	The correct clones were sent for sequencing.		Wait for the sequencing result.	8-17	Zhou Yu
19	8-17	18	2-4	The sequencing results were analyzed.	2 FLP-C1 clones and 4 FLP-Mob clones were found to be correct.			Zhou Yu, Zhenyu Shi

Thread 3: Celcuit Reporter.

Nubmer	Date	Inherit	Chart Index	Notes	Results	Plan	Expected Time	Operator
1	7-9	-	3-1	Culture the E. coli BW25141 harboring pKD13 plasmids.	-	Extract the plasmids. Store the strain.	7-10	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
2	7-9	-	3-1	PCR clone the lambda and rnnB terminators directly from the culture of BW25141.	The two terminators are successfully cloned.	Enlarge the PCR system and extract the PCR product for further overlap extention PCR.	7-9	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
3	7-9	2	3-1	PCR clone the lambda and rnnB terminators in large system.	Success.	Extract the products.	7-9	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
4	7-9	3	3-1	Extract the PCR product.	Success.	Perform Overlap extention PCR.	7-10	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
5	7-10	4	3-2,3-3	Anneal the two PCR products and use gradient overlap extension PCR to optimize the conditions.	Success.	Use the optimal condition to clone the Products.	7-10	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
6	7-10	5	3-3	Overlap extension PCR to clone in large system.	Success.	Extract the products.	7-10	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
7	7-10	6	3-3	Extract the PCR product.	Success.	Insert the product into pEASY-B cloning vector.	wait for FLP.	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
8	7-12	7	3-4	Insert PCR product to pEASY-B vector. Transformation	-	Pick clones from the plate amd perform PCR screening.	7-13	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
9	7-13	8	3-4	PCR screen the clones.	Success.	Culture the right clones for sequencing.	7-14	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
10	7-14	9	3-4	culture the right clones for enzyme digestion verification.	-	Send the cultures for sequencing.	7-15	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
11	7-15	10	3-4	Store the cultures of different clones.		Extract the plasmids for verification and send for sequencing.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
12	7-16	11	3-4	Enzyme digestion of the plamids with (XhoI & SalI) for the positive screening and with (SalI & SpeI) for the negative screening.	Failed. None of the digest turn out to show right DNA strips.	Send for sequencing. Use different enzyme sites.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
13	7-16	12	3-4	Enzyme digestino with Fermentas XhoI & SalI.	Failed. Maybe the cloning vector is wrong.	Send the cultures for sequencing.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
14	7-16	13	3-4	Send the cultures for sequencing.	-	Wait for sequencing results.	-	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
15	7-19	14	3-4	The sequencing results are analyzed and 2 clones were found to be right clones. But the restriction enzyme sites on the vector were not shown in sequencing results. It's even more possible that the cloning vector is wrong.	-	Culture the rights clones for verification.	7-17	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
16	7-20	15	3-4	Extract the plasmid and perform enzyme digestion for 8 hours.	None of the clones were correctly digested.	Digest longer lest the digestion is not completed.	7-21	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
17	7-21	16	3-4	Check the digestion products.	None of the plasmids from those clones were digested.	Reorder another box of pEASY-B cloning vector.	7-22	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
18	7-22	17	3-4	Order another box of the pEASY-B vector.	-			Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
19	7-25	18	3-4	The transgene company comfirmed that the previous pEASY-B vector was wrong.	-	Repeat the cloning of the lambda-rrnB terminators.		Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
20	7-26	19	3-1,3-2,3-3	PCR clone the lambda-rrnB terminators.	Success.	Insert the PCR product into pEASY-B vector.	7-26	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
21	7-26	20	3-4	Insert the PCR product into pEASY-B cloning vector. Transformation.	-	Pick clones for PCR screening.	7-27	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
22	7-27	21	3-4	PCR screen the clones.	2 clones were found to be correct.	Culture the clones for sequencing.	7-28	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
23	7-28	22	3-4	Culture the correct clones.	-	Send for sequencing.	7-29	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
24	7-29	23	3-4	Send the culture for sequencing.	-	wait for the sequencing results.	-	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
25	8-4	24	3-5	The sequencing results were analyzed. The pEASY-LRT plasmid was culture.	Both 2 clones were found to be correct, the clones were named as pEASY-LRT.	Culture the correct clones for further verifications.	8-5	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
26	8-5	25	3-6	The pEASY-LRT plasmid was extracted and digest by ScaI and Eam1105I(MBI), then blunted, ligated and transformed.		Check the plates the next day.	8-6	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
27	8-6	26	3-6	20 of the clones were picked and negatively screened for Ampicillin resistance.		Check the plates the next day.	8-7	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
28	8-7	27	3-6	Check the resistance. Culture the strain harboring the pEASY-LRT Amp(-), and extract the plasmids.	8 of the 20 clones do not have ampicillin resisntance, which were named as pEASY-LRT Amp(-).	Check the FLP's function. See thread 4.	8-8	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
29	8-8	28	3-7,3-8	PCR cloned part of the pBluescript II SK(-). PCR cloned part of the fragment containing Km resistance gene from lambda pKD13. The two PCR productes were phosphorated, ligated and transformed and sprayed on a  plate with both Km and Amp resistance gene.		Check the plate.	8-9	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
30	8-9	29	3-9	4 clones were picked from the plasmid to culture for verification by restriction analysis.		Extract the plasmids and digest the plasmids.	8-10	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
31	8-10	30	3-9	Extract the plasmids of the pBL-pKD plasmids and digest the plasmids with SphI and PstI.	2 of the 4 clones were found to be correct and ligated in the right direction, which are named as pBL-pKD	Blunting the digestion products.	8-11	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
32	8-11	31	3-9	The digestion products were blunted with T4 DNA polymerase, then ligated and transformed.		Check the plates.	8-12	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
33	8-12	32	3-9	8 clones were picked and cultured. The plasmids were extracted and enzyme digested to examine products. The strains harboring pBL-Linker was cultured.	3 of the 8 clones were found correct, which were named as pBL-Linker.		8-13	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi

Thread 4: Celcuit FLP verifier.

Nubmer	Date	Inherit	Chart Index	Notes	Results	Plan	Expected Time	Operator
1	7-12	-	4-1	Culture the plasmid pCP20 harboring FLP gene.	-	Extract the plasmid.	7-13	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
2	7-12	-	4-1	PCR clone the FLP gene directly from the culture.	Success.	Extract the PCR product.	7-12	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
3	7-12	2	4-1	Extract the PCR product.	Success.	Insert the product into pEASY-B cloning vector.	7-12	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
4	7-12	3	4-1	Insert the FLP PCR product into pEASY-B plasmid. Transformation.	-	Pick clones from the plate amd perform PCR screening.	7-13	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
5	7-13	4	4-1	PCR screen the clones.	Success.	Culture the right clones for sequencing.	7-14	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
6	7-14	5	4-1	culture the right clones for sequencing.	-	Send the cultures for sequencing.	7-15	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
7	7-15	6	4-1	Store the cultures of different clones.		Extract the plasmids for verification and send for sequencing.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
8	7-16	7	4-1	Enzyme digestion of the plamids with (SacI & XbaI) for the positive screening.	Failed. None of the digest turn out to show right DNA strips.	Send for sequencing. Use different enzyme sites.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
9	7-16	8	4-1	Enzyme digestino with Fermentas SacI & XbaI.	Failed. Maybe the cloning vector is wrong.	Send the cultures for sequencing.	7-16	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
10	7-16	9	4-1	Send the cultures for sequencing.	-	Wait for sequencing results.	-	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
11	7-19	10	4-1	The sequencing results are analyzed and 3 clones were found to be right clones. But the restriction enzyme sites on the vector were not shown in sequencing results. It's even more possible that the cloning vector is wrong.	-	Culture the rights clones for verification.	7-17	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
12	7-20	11	4-1	Extract the plasmid and perform enzyme digestion for 8 hours.	None of the clones were correctly digested.	Digest longer lest the digestion is not completed.	7-21	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
13	7-21	12	4-1	Check the digestion products.	None of the plasmids from those clones were digested.	Reorder another box of pEASY-B cloning vector.	7-22	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
14	7-22	13	4-1	Order another box of the pEASY-B vector.	-			Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
15	7-25	14	4-1	The transgene company comfirmed that the previous pEASY-B vector was wrong.	-	Repeat the cloning of the FLP gene.	7-26	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
16	7-26	15	4-1	PCR clone the LFP gene.	Success.	Insert the PCR product into pEASY-B vector.	7-26	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
17	7-26	16	4-1	Insert the PCR product into pEASY-B cloning vector. Transformation.	-	Pick clones for PCR screening.	7-27	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
18	7-27	17	4-1	PCR screen the clones.	2 clones were found to be correct.	Culture the clones for sequencing.	7-28	Yuan Zhao, Jing Ma, Zhenyu Shi
19	7-28	18	4-1	Culture the correct clones.	-	Send for sequencing.	7-29	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
20	7-29	19	4-1	Send the culture for sequencing.	-	wait for the sequencing results.	-	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
21	8-3	20	4-1	The sequencing results were analyzed. The clone was cultured for further verification. The strain harboring pBluescript II SK(-) was cultured.	1 clone was found to be correct		8-3	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
22	8-4	21	4-2	Extract the FLP cloning plasmid and pBluescript II SK(-) vector and digest them. The digested products were ligated and transformed.	-	Check the plates tomorrow.	8-4	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
23	8-5	22	4-2	4 white clones picked and cultured.	-		8-5	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
24	8-6	23	4-2	Culture the pBlueFLP and extract the plasmids.	All the 4 clones were found to be correct. The plasmid was named as pBlueFLP.	Wait for pEASY-LRT Amp(-) to check the FLP's function.	-	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
25	8-7	24	4-2,3-6	The pBlueFLP and pEASY-LRT Amp(-) were co-transformed. And IPTG was added when plating.		Check the plate.	8-8	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
26	8-8	25	4-2,3-6	1 clone was picked and cultured with IPTG induction for 8 hours, then diluted by 10^5 time and sprayed on a plates. The strain harboring pCP20 was cultured.	There is no blue colonies on the plates.	Check the plate.	8-9	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
27	8-9	26	4-2,3-6	pCP20 was extracted and co-transformed with pESAY-LRT Amp(-). The plate was cultured at 42 degrees for half an hour and then 30 degrees for overnight since the pCP20 is a temperature sensitive plasmid but can be induced by heat.	There is still no blue clones on the plate yesterday.	Check the plate.	8-10	Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi
28	8-10	27	4-2	Check the plate.	One blue was found on the plates. It seems that the pEASY-LRT Amp(-) does work.			Han Li, Yuting Wang, Zhenyu Shi