Cloning strategy

Milestone

Our first milestone will be to express and secrete full-length kappa-casein in S. cerevisiae. We only get one discounted order of gBlocks from IDT so we will save that for later milestones and pay full price for the initial kappa-casein synthesis.

Once the first milestone has been accomplished, we will attempt express

Orders for first milestone

E. coli

• E. coli NEB-10: We have this strain available in our freezer.

S. cerevisiae

• The strain must be a URA3 knockout: We are requesting a donation from NEB

Shuttle vector

The shuttle vector is a vector that can be grown and selected in E. coli and S. cerevisiae, but which only correctly expresses the gene or genes of interest in S. cerevisiae.

We're ordering the pD1214-FAKS shuttle vector from DNA 2.0 which contains the following features:

• AmpR: Ampicillin resistance gene (for selection in E. coli)
• P-Amp: Constitutive promoter for AmpR
• pUCori: High copy number E. coli origin of replication
• 2um: High copy number S. cerevisiae origin of replication from 2-μm plasmid.
• URA3: Yeast selectable marker. Requires the use of an S. cerevisiae strain missing the URA3 gene.
• P_ura: Constitutive S. cerevisiae promoter for URA3
• T_ura: S. cerevisiae terminator for URA3
• P_TEF1_syn: Constitutive S. cerevisiae promoter for our gene of interest (we will swap this out for an inducible promoter later)
• Secretion signal: Full alpha-factor yeast secretion signal. Fused to our gene of interest to secrete the protein.
• CYC1terminator: S. cerevisiae terminator for our gene of interest.

The shuttle vector will arrive linearized with overlaps for DNA 2.0's own Electra cloning system.

Reagents

Since we are using the DNA2.0 Elektra System to clone full-length Kappa-Casein, our reagents list is significantly shorter! Here it is:

Cloning Elektra Vector (Craig Donated) Elektra System (Craig Donated)

E. coli Cloning Carbenicillin (50mg/mL, 25mL) donated by Teknova LB Broth (1L) donated by Teknova LB Carb 50Plates (20) donated by Teknova NEB 10-beta Competent E. coli (High Efficiency)

Genes SapI.KappaCasein.SapI (human) (Craig Donated)

Saccharomyces Expression Saccharomyces cerevisae (Ura3ko)? UV-sensitive, other muts LiOAC (250kg) PEG (500mL, 50%) YPD Plates + uridine (Ura3- growth) YPD Plates (Ura3+ selection; animal free) YPD Broth + Uridine (80ug/mL; 25 tubes/rack) YPD Broth (animal Free Soytone, 1000mL) donated by Teknova

PPE Sterile Nitrile gloves (50/box) Sterile Nitrile gloves (50/box) Biohazard Bags

Consumables 20uL Pipette Tips 200uL Pipette tips 1000uL Tips 1.5mL Eppendorf PCR tubes Plasmid miniPrep

Orders for second milestone

This is a work in progress. So far we're planning a large order of gBlocks from IDT including at least some of the following sequences:

Bovine:

• Full-length bovine κ Casein
  • B genetic variant AAQ87923.1
• Full-length bovine αs1 Casein
• Full-length bovine αs2 Casein
• Full-length bovine β Casein
  • A2 genetic variant for health benefit
  • B genetic variant for better coagulation

Human:

• Full-length human κ Casein P07498.3
• Full-length human αs1 Casein
• Full-length human αs2a Casein CSN1S2A
• Full-length human αs2b Casein CSN1S2B
• Full-length human β Casein
• human caseinomacropeptide
• FAM20C Kinase

Whale:

We don't have the sequences yet!

hKappa Casein Cloning

• The sequence has been delivered!

 5' - TACACGTACTTAGTCGCTGAAGCTCTTCTATGGAAGTCCAAAACCAAAAGCAACCAGCTTGTCATGAAAACGACGAAAGA
CCATTCTACCAAAAGACTGCCCCATACGTTCCAATGTACTACGTTCCAAACTCTTACCCATACTACGGTACTAACTTGTA
CCAAAGAAGACCTGCTATCGCCATTAACAACCCATACGTCCCAAGAACTTACTACGCTAATCCAGCTGTTGTTCGTCCAC
ACGCTCAAATTCCACAAAGACAATATTTGCCTAACTCTCACCCACCAACCGTTGTCAGAAGACCAAACTTGCATCCTTCT
TTCATCGCTATCCCACCAAAAAAGATCCAAGACAAGATTATCATCCCAACTATCAACACTATCGCCACCGTTGAACCAAC
CCCAGCTCCTGCCACCGAACCAACTGTCGATTCTGTTGTTACTCCAGAAGCTTTCTCCGAATCTATCATTACTTCTACTC
CAGAAACTACCACTGTCGCCGTCACCCCACCAACTGCTGGTAGAAGAGCCGTCAATCGAGTTCGTACCA - 3'

• This sequence has 5' and 3' SapI sequences which will be cleaved during Electra cloning into vector pD1214-FAKS. This vector was ordered from DNA2.0 and is linearized upon arrival. Our insert is treated with Electra enzyme mix which cuts and ligates our SapI.kCasein.SapI gene and inserts it into the pD1214 vector.

• SapI treated DNA has an ATG overhang at the 5' end and a GGT overhang at the 3' end. Our complete vector will have the alphafactorfull signal sequence, which leads into another Methionine (M), followed by the rest of the human kappa casein protein.

All you need to know about the Electra system.

June 22, 2014

• Successfully cloned SapI.hKcasein.SapI into the electra daughter vector (pD1214:FAKS).

Reaction: 
1uL pD1214:FAKS (20ng)
1uL (20ng) of SapI.hkCasein.SapI
2uL Electra Buffer
1uL of Electra enzyme mix
15uL of Water
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20uL, Room Temperature, 20min.

• Transformed 2uL in 20uL of NEB C3019 cells or 4uL into 40uL NEB C3019 cells (equivalent to E. cloni 10G - donated from NEB!)

in a 200uL thin-walled PCR tube, add
2 or 4uL of DNA ligation mix
20 or 40uL of Cells (on ICE!)
Allow DNA to incubate with Cells for 10min on ice
Heat shock cells at 42C for 45seconds using OpenPCR Machine (donated by open PCR)
Ice cells for 2 minutes
Add 100uL of LB (or SOC) and incubate cells for 60min at 37C on the Open PCR machine.
Plate 1/2 of each reaction onto two separate LB Carbenicillin (100ug/mL) plates and incubate overnight at 37C.

June 23, 2014

• Selected 10 colonies and grew them overnight in LB-Carb (100ug/mL) in the 37C water bath.
• Grew up 4, 2-ml Tubes of pUC19 (Lb, Carb)
• Grew up 5, 2-ml Tubes of pYEP24 (LB carb)

1 colony per tube.
2mL of LB+Carb (100ug/mL) in 5mL Falcon Tubes

June 24, 2014

• Plasmid Prep'd all of the plasmids using the VIOGENE Mini Plus plasmid preparation kit.