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===Hypothesis 2: Gene L is necessary for phage propagation.=== | |||
* Unfortunately, I hosed the 1.25 μM sample (from Monday). | |||
* Gel electrophoresis showed the following over the rest of the primer 4 mix range: | |||
** 2.5 μM: a weak band at ~≥ 5 kb (amplified ΦX174 genome), and two stonger bands at ~100 bp and >100 bp | |||
** 5 μM: two strong bands at ~100 bp and >100 bp | |||
** 10 μM: two stong bands at ~100 bp and >100 bp | |||
* Given these results, here's what I think is happening. At too high primer concentration, the ssDNA primers, being complementary strands of WP-PCR, do not unbind, inhibiting PCR. | |||
* I will do one more test over a primer 4 mix of 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 8 μM. | |||
* Aliquot 6 × 4.5 μL ΦX174 WP-PCR mix (1X reaction buffer, .25 mM dNTPs mix, PfuUltra I DNAP, ~0.1 nM ΦX174 template) | |||
*# 0.5 μL 5 water | |||
*# 0.5 μL 5 μM primer 4 mix | |||
*# 0.5 μL 10 μM primer 4 mix | |||
*# 0.5 μL 20 μM primer 4 mix | |||
*# 0.5 μL 40 μM primer 4 mix | |||
*# 0.5 μL 80 μM primer 4 mix | |||
* WP-PCR Cycling parameters: | |||
*# 95 °C 2 m | |||
*# 95 °C 30 s | |||
*# 58° C 30 s | |||
*# 72 °C 15 m | |||
*# Repeat 2-4 an additional 29 times for 30 total cycles | |||
*# 72 °C 30 m | |||
===Characterization B-C: Expression of PHIX174 promoters/UTRs fused to PX-UTR1-deGFP and PX-UTRX-deGFP.=== | |||
* Quantifluore of pBEST-Pr-MG-apt-UTR1-deGFP-T500 = 45.7 nM (10.7%). | |||
* Do cell-free expression in batch-mode to characterize pBEST-Pr-MG-apt-UTR1-deGFP-T500. Idea is to start at lowish gain (say 50), and then increase gain at ~3-4 hr when expression is peaking until an 80% of max reading (80,000 counts of 100,000 max for the PMT) is achieved. This will then be the fixed gain for MGapt experiments. | |||
* Cell-free expression 80%: | |||
** 30 μL extract (12May11) | |||
** 1.17 μL water | |||
** 0.9 μL 100 mM Mg-glutamate (1 mM final) | |||
** 2 μL 3 M K-glutamate (66.7 mM final) | |||
** 22.5 μL 6 mM amino acids mix (1.5 mM final) | |||
** 6.43 μL 14X 3-PGC buffer (1X final) | |||
** 4.5 μL PEG8000 40% (2% final) | |||
** 4.5 μL 200 μM malachite green (10 μM final) | |||
* Aliquot 6 × 8 μL into 394-well plate and then add plasmid (pBEST-Pr-MGapt-UTR1-deGFP-T500) range: | |||
*# 2 μL water = 0 nM | |||
*# 2 μL 50 nM / 3^4 * 20% = .123 nM | |||
*# 2 μL 50 nM / 3^3 * 20% = .370 nM | |||
*# 2 μL 50 nM / 3^2 * 20% = 1.11 nM | |||
*# 2 μL 50 nM / 3^1 * 20% = 3.33 nM | |||
*# 2 μL 45.7 nM / 3^0 * 20% = 9.14 nM | |||
* Plate reader: | |||
*# 29 °C | |||
*# Shake: fast double orbital 30s | |||
*# Read: 625/655 nM @ gain = 175 w/ settings | |||
*# Read: 625/655 nM @ gain = 200 w/ settings | |||
*# Read: 625/655 nM @ gain = 225 w/ settings | |||
*# Loop: 2-5 every 3 m for 12 h | |||
** settings = high lamp energy, endpoint, bottom reading, other settings default | |||
* Transcription maximized around 1 hr after the experiment began. I fine-tuned the measurements, zeroing in on the range of gain = 210-212 as the maximum possible gain where counts < 80,000. I found that the 10 nM plasmid sample broke that threshold at gain = 212, but didn't at gain = 211. | |||
* Therefore, gain = 211 is the maximum possible gain, achieving the best possible fluorescence sensitivity, without breaking the 80,000 count threshold at 10 nM plasmid. | |||
* I then redid the experiment, with the following changes to the plate reader program: | |||
*# 29 °C | |||
*# Shake: fast double orbital 30s | |||
*# Read MGapt: 625/655 nM @ gain = 211 w/ settings | |||
*# Read deGFP: 485/528 nM @ gain = 61 w/ settings | |||
*# Shake: fast double orbital 30s | |||
*# Loop: 2-4 every 3 m for 12 h | |||
** settings = high lamp energy, endpoint, bottom reading, other settings default | |||
* The goal was to measure transcript levels of MGapt and translated deGFP simultaneously. |
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Hypothesis 2: Gene L is necessary for phage propagation.
Characterization B-C: Expression of PHIX174 promoters/UTRs fused to PX-UTR1-deGFP and PX-UTRX-deGFP.
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