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Projects Six and Seven: Cloning (15 points) In this two-part project you will explore the basic principles of cloning including primer design and finding compatible restriction enzyme sites between a cloning vector and an insert. These are widely used techniques in molecular biology labs. Please view the following videos to answer the first five questions before class: Sticky endz DNA cloning and recombinant DNA Primer design I. Questions based on the introductory videos (5 pts) 1. What is the ideal length of a primer (give a range)? The ideal length of a primer is between 18 and 24 bp. 2. What is the maximum recommended difference in melting temperature between two primers? The maximum recommended difference in melting temperature between two primers is 5 degrees Celsius. 3. What is a "GC anchor"? A “GC anchor” is something used to stabilize base pairs in the presence of guanine or cytosine bases in the last 5 bases of a PCR primer and that enhances primer specificity to the complementary sequence. 4. How are bacteria prompted to take up a plasmid? Bacteria are prompted to take up a plasmid by putting them in the presence of the plasmid and giving it a heat shock. 5. What are "sticky ends" and why are they useful in cloning? The “sticky ends” are DNA fragment strands that want to rejoin. They have sections that overlap and bases that attach, which increases the likelihood for rejoining complementary base pairs, making them helpful in cloning. II. Cloning (5 pts) 6. When the plasmids are mixed with the bacteria, not all of the "bugs" will take up plasmids. How do you ensure that the bacterial colonies that you grow on an agar plate are from bugs that took up the plasmid? You can ensure that the bacteria you grow on the agar plate are from bugs that took up the plasmid by placing an antibiotic resistance gene. This will allow the colonies from bugs to only survive. Your patient has a mutation in the beta subunit of hemoglobin (gene name: HBB ). The patient's genomic sequence from this region is posted on Canvas ("pt_HBB"). 7. Learn more about the HBB gene by searching for it in the "Gene" database on the NCBI site. Based on the information in the entry, what disorders could result from a mutation in this gene? Sickle cell anemia
Cloning plasmids have been engineered to allow you to insert a gene sequence into the plasmid, then replication the plasmid in bacteria. Some of these plasmids can also be introduced into mammalian cells (in culture) where the gene you inserted can be expressed. Such plasmids are known as mammalian expression plasmids. You want to clone the wild-type HBB gene and the mutant gene from your patient separately into a mammalian expression plasmid to analyze expression in mammalian cells. For cloning you use a cDNA version of the processed mRNA sequence so that the sequence will fit into the cloning vector (introns take up a lot of space!) and because splicing occurs in the nucleus, but your plasmid will be introduced into the cytoplasm. Let's take a look at the wild-type mRNA sequence for human HBB . Scroll down the Gene page to the NCBI RefSeq section. Locate the "mRNA and Protein(s)" section and click on the link for GenBank accession number NM_000518.5 ("NM" indicates mRNA, and "NP" indicates protein). Note that the RefSeq mRNA sequence is already in cDNA format (notice the lack of uracil) so we can use this sequence as the template to which we'll design our special primers. 8. Copy and paste the full mRNA sequence here, in FASTA format (you can use the FASTA link on the top left of the page): >NM_000518.5 Homo sapiens hemoglobin subunit beta (HBB), mRNA ACATTTGCTTCTGACACAACTGTGTTCACTAGCAACCTCAAACAGACACCATGGTGCATCTGACTCCTGA GGAGAAGTCTGCCGTTACTGCCCTGTGGGGCAAGGTGAACGTGGATGAAGTTGGTGGTGAGGCCCTGGGC AGGCTGCTGGTGGTCTACCCTTGGACCCAGAGGTTCTTTGAGTCCTTTGGGGATCTGTCCACTCCTGATG CTGTTATGGGCAACCCTAAGGTGAAGGCTCATGGCAAGAAAGTGCTCGGTGCCTTTAGTGATGGCCTGGC TCACCTGGACAACCTCAAGGGCACCTTTGCCACACTGAGTGAGCTGCACTGTGACAAGCTGCACGTGGAT CCTGAGAACTTCAGGCTCCTGGGCAACGTGCTGGTCTGTGTGCTGGCCCATCACTTTGGCAAAGAATTCA CCCCACCAGTGCAGGCTGCCTATCAGAAAGTGGTGGCTGGTGTGGCTAATGCCCTGGCCCACAAGTATCA CTAAGCTCGCTTTCTTGCTGTCCAATTTCTATTAAAGGTTCCTTTGTTCCCTAAGTCCAACTACTAAACT GGGGGATATTATGAAGGGCCTTGAGCATCTGGATTCTGCCTAATAAAAAACATTTATTTTCATTGCAA The expression vector that you want to clone your gene into is called pFLAG-CMV-1 . Plasmid vectors have what are called multiple cloning sites (MCSs): short stretches that have been designed to have many different restriction enzyme (RE) recognition sites, like multiple adaptors that can fit a wide range of possible inserts. Look at the vector map (click on the pFLAG link above, and scroll down to the circular diagram). Mouse over the blue box representing the multiple cloning site . 9. What is the nucleotide position range of the MCS (mouse over it to see)? 991 … 1057 = 67 bp Now you'll want to see if the HBB mRNA sequence from NCBI happens to have any RE sites that match in the upstream/downstream region from the coding sequence. Copy and paste the mRNA sequence into the NEB cutter site . Leave settings at default parameters and hit submit. 10. List four enzymes that cut upstream or downstream of the ORF, which is represented by the grey arrow along the top of the linear map: Bfal, Msel, Bmrl, and Tfil
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