Overview

Overview
Digestions
pGT4ΔB
Electrophoresis
DNA clean-up
Ligation
Fragment isolation
Competent cells
Transformation
Recombinants
pGTλ3758ΔH
Miniprepping
Blotting
Probe Labeling
Hybridisation
Probe Detection
PCR

In the Simple Cloning Lab, students are trying to make a bacteriophage Lambda DNA library, a collection of bacteriophage Lambda DNA fragments cloned into the bacterium Escherichia coli.
This should result in a set of E.coli clones, each harbouring a distinct recombinant plasmid.
To construct the library, plasmid pGT4 is used as a vector.
See the flowschemes below

Also attempts are made to construct (examples of) mutants:
a mutant vector plasmid (pGT4ΔB) and a mutant version of one of the library clones (pGTλ3758ΔH) are made.

 

See below for a flowscheme for the bacteriophage Lambda DNA library
(use your mouse to hover over the scheme):

Steps 1, 2, [3], 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 could be called library construction,
steps [3], 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 could be called library screening.

 

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