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Contents
Introduction
Cell viability assay
The BacTiter-Glo Microbial Cell Viability Assay is a method for quantifying the number of viable cells based on measuring the amount of ATP present. ATP is a proxy for the presence of metabolically active (alive) cells. In this assay, the cells are lysed and ATP is released from the active cells. In a reaction catalyzed by a propriety luciferase enzyme, luciferin, ATP, and oxygen result in oxyluciferin, AMP, PPi, carbon dioxide, and light. The light product is then measured using a luminometer.
Protocols
Part 1: Perform metal tolerance experiment
- Obtain your Fet4_mutant culture from the front bench.
- Untransformed W303α and W303α transformed with Fet4 will be tested in parallel by the teaching faculty.
- Gently tritruate with a 1ml pipette to create a homogeneous suspension.
- Obtain cuvettes from the front bench to measure the OD600 of each culture prior to beginning the experiment.
- Add 1ml of each cell suspension to individual cuvettes and read on the spectrophotometer.
- Use 1ml SD-G for a blank.
- Record these numbers in your notebook.
- Using SD-G media as a diluent, dilute each of your cultures to OD600 ~ 1.0 and a final volume of 8ml. This does not have to be exact, but the cultures should have a similar OD600 before you begin the experiment.
- Add CdCl2 for a final concentration of 100μM in each culture.
- Incubate your labeled tubes shaking at 30°C for 2.5 hours to allow uptake.
- During this incubation time, complete Part 2 and 3 of the wiki.
- Following incubation, take an additional OD600 reading to account for any changes in culture density, and allow normalization of data across groups.
- Record this in your notebook.
- Add 100μL
In your laboratory notebook, complete the following:
- What
Part 2: Review collection of ICP-OES data
In your laboratory notebook, complete the following:
- What
Part 3: Analyze ICP-OES data
In your laboratory notebook, complete the following:
- What
Reagents list
- WST-8 solution (Abcam)
Next day: Complete data analysis and organize Research article figures