cDNA 2010

Submitted by kdorfman on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 16:45

*Making cDNA +Fe & -Fe roots and shoots**

20 MS plates, heavily sown with At Col0 seeds.

At 7 days, transplant all seedlings, half to MS plates, half to –Fe plates.

After 3 more days, harvest roots, shoots. 12 samples in all.

(In future, plant 4 full plates per root sample)

Use razor blade to amputate roots

Grind in ceramic mortar and pestle (bake 1st overnight!)

Extract RNA, following lab manual protocol.

From 5/7/10:

Sample ng RNA/uL uL to get 200 ng uL to get 44.5 ng H2O to 5 uL
R+1 23.84 8.39 1.87 3.13
R+2 95 2.11 0.47 4.53
R+3 24.5 8.16 1.82 3.18
S+1 67.35 2.97 0.66 4.34
S+2 32 6.25 1.39 3.61
S+3 73.6 2.72 0.60 4.40
R-1 9.5 21.05 4.68 0.32
R-2 8.9 22.47 5.00 0.00
R-3 18 11.11 2.47 2.53
S-1 98.75 2.03 0.45 4.55
S-2 76.45 2.62 0.58 4.42
S-3 79.05 2.53 0.56 4.44

max ng in most dilute sample= 44.50

Can’t get 200 ng RNA in less than 5 µL in several samples.

Calculate the amount of RNA in 5 µL of the most dilute sample (-R2), calculate the µL of each sample required to get that amount. Add water to 5 µL.

Run on gel. R-3 was calculated wrong (or it degraded).

Initial spec reading was 6.3; reblanked and got 18. Maybe the 6.3 was right?

Gel:

Lane 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
HMW std R+1 R+2 R+3 S+1 S+2 S+3 R-1 R-2 R-3 S-1 S-2 S-3

Freeze the RNA.

Two choices for cDNA:
* omit R-3 (calculate amount of RNA from next most dilute, -R 2), * or recalculate R-3 from the initial 6.3 reading

From –R2: 11 µL contains 97.9 ng of RNA, almost 10% of the recommended amount.

Can run 11 RTPCR reactions, and only have 40 µL of R- samples, but 60 µL of all of the others.

From –R3 at 6.3ng/µL: 11 µL contains 69.3 ng, which is only 7% of the recommended amount.

Combine the 3 of each type into a single tube. Measure volume:

ingredient R- R+ S- S+
uL RNA 102 111 111 111
+ 1/10 vol 3M NaOAc 1 10.2 11.1 11.1 11.1
+ 2 vol EtOH 204 222 222 222

Freeze 20 min

Spin 10 min

Remove supernate

Add 70% EtOH

Spin again (R pellets hard to see)

Remove all liquid. Add:

ingredient R- R+ S- S+
1/4 vol RNAse-free H2O 25.5 27.75 27.75 27.75
spec ng/uL: 118.2 116.5 282.4 203

11 µL of least conc has 1281.5 ng

ingredient R- R+ S- S+
uL RNA 10.84 11 4.53 6.31
water 0.16 0 6.49 4.69

Proceed with RT, following lab manual protocol.

Run gel (1st one failed – pic is second run)

LMW 1/50 1/100 R+ S+ R- S- std gDNA gDNA

Complete waste of time and resources!

Test the cDNA with PCR

Test cDNA with oMZG_RT_L and oMZG_RT_R

(The primer names in the Wiki are oMZG_T_R and oMZG_T_L; in the freezer, there is oMZG_RT_L and oMZG_RT_R)

gDNA product is 482bp, cDNA is 362 (with some alternative splicing products in between).

Master Mix for 7 rxns (1/50 gDNA, 1/100 gDNA, R+, S+, R-, S-) + 1

ingredient per rxn per 7 rxns

water 36 252

10X buffer 5 35

2.5mM dNTP 4 28

oMZG_RT_L 1 7

oMZG_RT_R 1 7 T aq 1 7

Each rxn: 48 µL master mix + 2 µL template

Make 1/50 gDNA: 1 µL gDNA + 49 µL water

Make 1/100 gDNA: 10 µL 1/50 DNA + 10 µL water

Tube # 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sample 1/50 gDNA 1/100 gDNA R+ S+ R- S-


  1. make fresh, pH 7.0, filter sterilize ↩︎