Tuesday, February 24, 2015

BACE - DNA Extraction Pt II

Try and extract DNA from samples that I could not get enough DNA from on 2/17
   ***for samples with really poor yields from last time, extracted two sets

Need more Lysozyme - 10 mg/mL in 60 uL x 20 samples

   TEN Buffer: 

      40 mM Tris-HCl ph=7.5
      1 mM EDTA ph=8.0
      150 mM NaCl

      Stock Solutions:      
      400 mM Tris-HCl = 6.30 g in 100 mL dH2O
      100 mM EDTA = 2.92 g in 100 mL dH2O
      300 mM NaCl = 1.75 g in 100 mL dH2O

      --> 1500 uL TEN Buffer = 750 uL NaCl + 15 uL EDTA + 150 uL Tris-HCl + 585 uL ddH2O

   Add 1 mL TEN Buffer + 10 mg Lysozyme = 10 mg/mL

Followed Promega Wizard DNA Purification Kit Protocol for gram-positive bacteria
   EXCEPT:
      Added 2 mL of liquid grown culture
      Added 10 mg/mL of 60 uL + 60 uL ddH2O = 120 uL
      Added 60 uL of Rehydration Solution

Quantified with Qubit kit on BioTek at 485/530 nM

Sample ID     Concentration (ng/uL)
MCBA15 004.1      7.9
MCBA15 004.2     20.8
MCBA15 007        4.9
MMLR15 010        0.0 - probably lost pellet 
MCBA15 015       10.7
MCBA15 017.1      8.7
MCBA15 017.2      0.3
MMLR15 018.1      1.0 - grows slow, not much input
MMLR15 018.2      3.1 - grows slow, not much input
MCBA15 019.1      7.5
MCBA15 019.2     13.5
MMLR15 020       16.6

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