IGEM:IMPERIAL/2007/Projects/Hrp System/Systems/Hrp Device 1/TestingValidation/Preliminary
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Promoter Protocol
Preparing the Over night Cultures
- Inoculate 5ml of M9 minimal media containing 50 μg/mL Ampicillin with 10μl of stored culture containing pBad test construct.
- Incubate at 37°C for overnight in a shaker.
- Allows selected growth of E.coli with vector
Day 1
- Incubate M9 Amp Media 37o
- Remove the overnight culture from incubator and measure Optical Density at 600nm (O.D.600) of a 4ml sample. Click here for technique on spectrometer.
- Calculate the volume of culture needed to give a O.D.600 in a 10ml volume, use simple calculate:
volume culture = (0.1/O.D.600)*10ml
- With the calculated volume of culture add pre-warmed M9 media to make total volume of 10ml
- Return the 10ml culture to the incubator and incubate at 37oC for 2 hours.
- The purpose of inoculating a new media is because over night E.coli will go into the stationary phase, but by inoculating a new medium we are returned cells to the exponential phase
- Whilst the cultures are incubating prepare the standard dilutions of arabinose.(PROCESS)
2 hours Incubation
- Remove culture and measure O.D.600.
- Calculate the volume of culture needed to give a O.D.600 in a 15ml volume, use simple calculate:
volume culture = (0.1/O.D.600)*15ml
- With the calculated volume of culture add pre-warmed M9 media to make total volume of 15ml
- Spin the 15ml culture in a centrifuge for 10 mins at 300 to 2000g minutes(check). Cells will form a pellet in the bottom of the tube.
- Carefully remove the liquid in the tube (supernatant) to leave just the pellet.
- Re-suspend the cells in 15ml of prewarmed M9 Amp and gentle vortex.
- This is to supply fresh media, ensures the cultures remain in the exponential phase
Fluorometer Plate Reader
- Retrieve the Plate
- Remove 200μL of the culture from the 15ml into 10 wells.
- Pipette samples into a 96 well plate
- Add 2μL of pre-prepared AHL solutions to relevant well (Follow schematic)
- In addition want the following control wells:
- 200μl of growth medium.
- Cultures without vector.
- A 200μL culture with 2μL of 0.2mM AHL
- Place into the fluorometer and set time intervals to relevant settings to give 50 time points.
Results
- From this preliminary experiment we will be able to further adapted the test construct protocol to ensure that our data range will be sufficient.
- For example, if our graph has a sharp transition from low output to high output we will want to increase the data points in this transition.
- The parameters of the protocol we may wish to adjust will be concentration range and the time intervals of measurements.