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TFKE39 Seminar : Project Course Application of Molecular Biology ”tools” for cloning of a foreign gene David Grossekathöfer Antoine Malabirade Elodie Person Estelle Picq Adrien Soula Hélène Trottin Bo Kyung Kim 10/13/2011 Schedule First PCR attempt : Too high dNTP concentration Why? we added: - the buffer that already contained dNTP - Extra dNTP Consequence: dNTP is absorbing Mg2+ which is important for Taq Polymerase activity Taq Polymerase inactive and PCR failed PCR to amplify our gene With the home-made polymerase With the commercial polymerase Purification Purification Ligation with Tvector Restriction + Purification In contrast to a few other groups we did not used alkaline phosphatase to dephosphorylise the 5’-Ends at our vector. If you use two diverse restriction enzymes this is not necessary. At the second PCR was not enough water added to the comercial sample Vector The vector was restricted two times and purified three times Restriction Purification Ligation with PET vector Transformation in E. coli Picking 4 colonies for PCR Transformation in E. coli END (no colonies) 2 PCR-Cycles Denaturation Annealing Elongation What we had to choose: the annealing temperature First PCR (did not work): Second PCR (a success!) Annealing T = 66˚C Taq DNA-Polymerase: Commercial Annealing T = 60˚C Taq DNA-Polymerase: Commercial + Home-made pET-28 (double restriction with NcoI and Hind III) T-tailed vector (without restriction) 3 Control transformation For our control we added the vector but not the insert. Unexpectedly there were colonies on our Agarplate (relative high concentration: 30 %, uniform look) Self-ligation because of differently working restriction enyzmes (Antibiotic resistance is located in the vector) 4 First PCR results No PCR product Vector 110919 5 Second PCR results Commercial Taq- Home made Taq-polymerase polymerase 110922 6 Final results Our 4 samples PCR product of a tranformated colony 110926 7