Difference between revisions of "Team:TU-Eindhoven/Project/Protocols"
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<h1>General Protocols</h1> | <h1>General Protocols</h1> | ||
<h6>General Necessities | <h6>General Necessities | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Preparation of antibiotics, growth media, stock solutions and more.</i><br/> |
Glycerol Stock | Glycerol Stock | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Preparing the bacteria for long term storage in the -80 °C freezer.</i><br/> |
Streaking Glycerol Stock | Streaking Glycerol Stock | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>After storage in the -80 °C, the bacteria can be prepared for usage by streaking them on agar plates.</i><br/> |
Nanodrop | Nanodrop | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Nanodrop is used to determine the concentration of a DNA sample.</i><br/> |
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis | Agarose Gel Electrophoresis | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Agarose Gel Electrophoresis is used to determine the length of DNA samples.</i><br/> |
SDS-Page | SDS-Page | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>SDS-Page is used to determine the size of a protein.</i></h6><br/> |
<h1>Traditional Cloning & BioBricking</h1> | <h1>Traditional Cloning & BioBricking</h1> | ||
<h6>PCR Amplification | <h6>PCR Amplification | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>PCR Amplification is used to amplify a DNA sequence.</i><br/> |
PCR Purification | PCR Purification | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>PCR Purification is used to purify the product from a PCR reaction.</i><br/> |
Digestion | Digestion | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Digestion is used to cleave the plasmid and the insert in order to prepare them for ligation.</i><br/> |
Ligation | Ligation | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Ligation is used to ligate a desired insert into a plasmid.</i><br/> |
LIU PCR | LIU PCR | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>LIU PCR is used to insert additional amino acids in a DNA sequence.</i><br/> |
</h6><br/> | </h6><br/> | ||
<h1>Gibson Assembly</h1> | <h1>Gibson Assembly</h1> | ||
<h6>Vector Linearization | <h6>Vector Linearization | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Vector Linearization is used to linearize a vector, after which it can be used for Gibson Assembly.</i><br/> |
Gibson Assembly | Gibson Assembly | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>The NEBuilder HiFi Assembly protocol is used for Gibson Assembly to ligate gBlocks into a linearized |
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span>vector.</i><br/> |
</h6><br/> | </h6><br/> | ||
<h1>Transformation, Protein Expression & Purification</h1> | <h1>Transformation, Protein Expression & Purification</h1> | ||
<h6>Transformation into NovaBlue | <h6>Transformation into NovaBlue | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>NovaBlue cells can be used for plasmid amplifcation. </i><br/> |
Plating | Plating | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Plating is required to amplify bacteria, by letting them grown on a growth medium.</i><br/> |
Colony Picking and Colony PCR | Colony Picking and Colony PCR | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Colony Picking and Colony PCR is used to evaluate if the inserted fragments have the correct length.</i><br/> |
Sequencing | Sequencing | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Sequencing is used to determine the sequence of the amplified and transformed DNA.</i><br/> |
Miniprep | Miniprep | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Miniprep is used to obtain the plasmid DNA.</i><br/> |
Small culturing | Small culturing | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>Small culturing is used to amplify a specific bacteria colony.</i><br/> |
Protein expression | Protein expression | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>This protocol is used to induce protein expression in bacteria from the small culture.</i><br/> |
Protein Purification using a His-tag | Protein Purification using a His-tag | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>This protocol is used to purify proteins using a His-tag.</i><br/> |
Protein Purification using a Strep-tag | Protein Purification using a Strep-tag | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>This protocol is used to purify proteins using a Strep-tag. |
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</h6><br/> | </h6><br/> | ||
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<h1>Testing</h1> | <h1>Testing</h1> | ||
<h6>Flow chamber | <h6>Flow chamber | ||
| − | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: | + | <br/><span style="display:inline-block; width: 220px;"></span><i>This protocol is used to prepare samples for microscopy.</i><br/> |
Measuring Fluorescence | Measuring Fluorescence | ||
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</h6><br/> | </h6><br/> | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 1 November 2017
General Protocols
General Necessities
Preparation of antibiotics, growth media, stock solutions and more.
Glycerol Stock
Preparing the bacteria for long term storage in the -80 °C freezer.
Streaking Glycerol Stock
After storage in the -80 °C, the bacteria can be prepared for usage by streaking them on agar plates.
Nanodrop
Nanodrop is used to determine the concentration of a DNA sample.
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis is used to determine the length of DNA samples.
SDS-Page
SDS-Page is used to determine the size of a protein.
Traditional Cloning & BioBricking
PCR Amplification
PCR Amplification is used to amplify a DNA sequence.
PCR Purification
PCR Purification is used to purify the product from a PCR reaction.
Digestion
Digestion is used to cleave the plasmid and the insert in order to prepare them for ligation.
Ligation
Ligation is used to ligate a desired insert into a plasmid.
LIU PCR
LIU PCR is used to insert additional amino acids in a DNA sequence.
Gibson Assembly
Vector Linearization
Vector Linearization is used to linearize a vector, after which it can be used for Gibson Assembly.
Gibson Assembly
The NEBuilder HiFi Assembly protocol is used for Gibson Assembly to ligate gBlocks into a linearized
vector.
Transformation, Protein Expression & Purification
Transformation into NovaBlue
NovaBlue cells can be used for plasmid amplifcation.
Plating
Plating is required to amplify bacteria, by letting them grown on a growth medium.
Colony Picking and Colony PCR
Colony Picking and Colony PCR is used to evaluate if the inserted fragments have the correct length.
Sequencing
Sequencing is used to determine the sequence of the amplified and transformed DNA.
Miniprep
Miniprep is used to obtain the plasmid DNA.
Small culturing
Small culturing is used to amplify a specific bacteria colony.
Protein expression
This protocol is used to induce protein expression in bacteria from the small culture.
Protein Purification using a His-tag
This protocol is used to purify proteins using a His-tag.
Protein Purification using a Strep-tag
This protocol is used to purify proteins using a Strep-tag.
Testing
Flow chamber
This protocol is used to prepare samples for microscopy.
Measuring Fluorescence
