Nagahama
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BioBrick Parts to achieve each medal requirement
Bronze
Confirmation whether sod2 were inserted into pYES2 plasmid.
The front and the back part of the intron of sod2 were separately amplified by PCR. The forward primer of sod2 located back the intron contained the sequence of reverse Primer in the front of intron as an adapter.
Using these two PCR products, fusion PCR was performed.
The completed PCR product of the coding region of sod2 was integrated into pYES2 plasmid and transfered the resultant plasmid into E.coli. Plasmid extraction was performed from the transformed E. coli . Using the restriction enzyme used to ligate the PCR product of sod 2 with pYES2 Plasmid, the plasmid extracted from E. coli was cut and the length was confirmed by electrophoresis.
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Lane1:1kb DNA ladder
Lane2:100bp DNA ladder
Lane3:Nothing
Lane4:Plasmid extraction from colony1
Lane5:Plasmid extraction from colony2
Lane6:Plasmid extraction from colony3
Lane7:Plasmid extraction from colony4
Lane8:Plasmid extraction from colony5
Lane9:Plasmid extraction from colony6
Lane10:Plasmid extraction from colony7
Lane11:Plasmid extraction from colony8
These result showed that sod2 was introduced into pYES2 extracted colony 2, 3, 4 and 8. S. cerevisiae BY4742 was transformed with the plasmid.
Silver
Confirmation that S. cerevisiae expressing sod2 acquired salt tolerance
The growth of S. cerevisiae BY4742 cells expressing sod2 was tested on plates containing sodium.
This figure shows that S. cerevisiae (sod2) cells that overexpress the sod2 product is more survived on SD-ura medium supplemented with 4.0 % (w/v) NaCl than the counterpart control S. cerevisiae transformed with an empty vector.