2 - Molecular Biology

2 - Molecular Biology kdorfman Fri, 08/07/2020 - 15:43

Bacterial plasmids:

  • H2B-mCherry (Addgene 20972) (Kan resistant)
  • ecadherinGFP (Addgene 28009) (Kan resistant)

Restriction Enzymes

  • PvuI-HF (cut smart)
  • BamHI-HF (cut smart)
  • KpnI-HF (cut smart)

A "Typical" Restriction Digest

Reagent amount
Restriction Enzyme 10 units is sufficient, generally 1 µl
DNA 1 µg
10X NEBuffer 5 µl (1X)
Total Reaction Volume 50 µl
Incubation Time 1 hour
Incubation Temperature Enzyme dependent

Gel Loading

  • 1 % agarose in TAE
  • 1/10,000 SYBR Safe
  • 20 wells
  • wide gel
  • 10 uL/well

Lanes 1, 10, 20 have NEB 1Kb ladder mixed in this ratio

  • 1 uL ladder
  • 1 uL loading dye
  • 6 uL water
Tube 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Ingredient uncut control BamH1 KPN1 Pvu1 BamH1 + Kpn1 BamH1+Pvu1 Kpn1+Pvu1 BamH1+Kpn1+Pvu1
10X NEBuffer 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
plasmid 20972 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
BamH1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
KPN1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1
PVU1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
water 42 41 41 41 40 40 40 39
Tube 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Ingredient uncut control BamH1 KPN1 Pvu1 BamH1 + Kpn1 BamH1+Pvu1 Kpn1+Pvu1 BamH1+Kpn1+Pvu1
10X NEBuffer 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
plasmid 28009 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
BamH1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
KPN1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1
PVU1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
water 46 45 45 45 44 44 44 43

Restriction sites

Plasmid Bam1 Kpn1 Pvu1 plasmid length
20972 (H2B) 1724 2117 3567 6476
28009 (ecadherin GFP) 3703 3059 6007 8820

Digest fragments

Plasmid BamH1 + Kpn1 BamH1+Pvu1 Kpn1+Pvu1 BamH1+Kpn1+Pvu1
20972 (H2B) 393, 6083 1843, 4633 1450, 5026 393, 1450, 4633
28009 (ecad) 646, 8174 2304, 6516 2948, 5872 646, 2304, 5870

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