Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Description PLATE Transformation Procedure COMPETENCY: Inoculate a single colony into 100 ml YPD (or selective media if necessary). Grow on shaker to O.D.(600) = 1.0 (O.D.(600) between 0.6 and 1.8 is fine) at 30o...
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Description Quick transformation Procedure Take 0.5 ml of culture and spin 10 sec in microfuge. Decant the tube by inverting it and shaking it once. Alternatively, one can pick a colony (2-3 mm in diameter) from...
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Description High efficiency LiAc transformation Procedure 1. Inoculate 2-5 mls of liquid YPED or 10 ml synthetic media and incubate with shaking overnight at 30o C. 2. Count o/n culture and inoculate 50 mls of wa...
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Description Colony Plasmid Rescue Procedure Start with a fresh plate of yeast, with large colonies grown for 3-4 days. Prepare eppendorfs with 20 l aqueous buffer (2% Triton X-100, 1% SDS, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris...
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Description High Efficency Yeast Plasmid Rescue Procedure Grow yeast overnight. Spin down 1.5 ml of culture in microfuge tubes. Decant Add 250 l of Qiagen buffer P1 to each tube Add about 250 l of glass beads Bea...
Monday, November 10, 2003 Description Making electrocompetent Agrobacterium Procedure 1. Start a 5ml culture (LB plus appropriate selection - for GV2260 this is Rif25, Strep50 and Carb50) from a freshly streaked plate. Incubate at 28C over...
Monday, November 10, 2003 Description Electroporation of A. tum faciens cells Procedure 1. Make a overnight culture of the A.tum. strain at 28 C. 2. Dilute cefis 10 times in the desired medium (8 ml for 1 etectroporation). 3. Grow cells at...
Monday, November 10, 2003 Description Introduction of plasmid into Agrobacterium Procedure Grow 10 ml ON culture at 28C in LB (+25mg/ml gentamycin for GV3101, + 34mg/ml rifampicin for LBA4404) 3. Dilute about 1:100 into 10mL of LB (with ap...
Monday, November 10, 2003 Description Agrobacterium plasmid DNA miniprep Procedure 1. Inoculate a single colony into 2 ml of LB or YMB containing appropriate antibiotics. *Set up 3 or 4 cultures and combine the cells. 2. Incubate shaking a...
Friday, November 07, 2003 Description Brief version for those who are familiar with the method Procedure 1.Grow healthy Arabidopsis plants until they are flowering. Grow under long days in pots in soil covered with bridal veil, window scre...