Quick and dirty

Identificacion de plasmidos con inserto en clonaciones

Reagents:

2x Lysis Buffer:

20% w/v Sucrose
200mM NaOH
120mM KCl
10mM EDTA
0.5% SDS
a pinch of Bromophenol blue
store at -20 degC

Procedure:

There are two ways of performing this screen. If the chances of you having a clones depend on the number of colonies you screen i.e. your “luckiness” factor is abysmal, then obviously you would have a screen a large number of colonies. Then go ahead with the 96 well plate method. If you are the type who usually strikes on the clone in a screen of say 10 to 20 colonies then you could use Eppendorf tubes.

1. Dilute lysis buffer to 1x, at room temperature.
2. Pick the colonies from the transformant plate “patch” to a master plate and transfer remaining to 30 microL of lysis buffer (in Eppendorfs or a 96 well plate)
3. Incubate at 37 degC for 5 to 7 minutes
4. Chill on ice for 5min
5. Spin at maximum speed for 10 minutes ( you would need a compatible centrifuge to spin 96 well plates - which should be sealed with parafilm)
6. Load 10 to 15 microL on the gel (Caution: When trying to load from the lysate make sure you only pick up the supernatant. The gooey mass below (caused by genomic DNA) will stick to your piptte causing pipetting difficulties as well cause the sample to jump out of the agarose lanes. If this happens spin down again for a few minutes and load)
7. Difference in electrophoretic mobility will help you narrow down your clones for mini preps.

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http://bitesizebio.com/2008/04/02/quick-and-dirty-screening-for-cloned-inserts/