Drug Cells:

Materials:

2xSPP medium

200x fungizome

1000x penicillin/streptomycin

1 mg/ml CdCl2 (stock solution is 1 mg/ml)

10 mg/ml Paromyicin (for neo3 cassette)

96 well tissue culture plates

100 mls of 2x Spp (+1x penicillin/strepomycin and fungizome +1 mg/ml CdCl2)

 

The next day, add 25 mls of 2x Spp (+2x penicillin/streptomycin and fungizome) plus 1 mg/ml CdCl2 to each flask containing cells in 10 mM Tris (final CdCl2 concentration is 0.5 ug/ml)

Incubate at 30 degrees Celsius 5 to 7 hours with slow shaking.

Add additional CdCl2 to 1 ug/ml (25 ul of 1 mg/ml stock)

Add 10 mg/ml paromomycin to 75 to 80 ug/ml (we usually use 80 ug/ml)

Pour cells into media tray

Plate into four 96 well plates (125 ul/well).

Incubate at 30 degrees Celsius at least 3 days before checking for transformants.

 

Optional: add 10mls of 1xSpp +1 ug/ml CdCl2+ 80 ug/ml paromomycin (+1x penicillin/strepomycin and fungizome) back to each 50 ml flask and incubate to recover any transformants remaining in medium not plated.

 

 

 

Cole Lab:

Make 20 ug/mL stock solution.

In TRIS or NEFF dilute 1:100 for final conc of

0.2 ug/mL.  Can be higher up to 0.5 ug/ mL

 

 

From Chalker:

Our SPP and Neff media contain sequestrine.  For inducing cells during conjugation, if i want to induce upon mixing (as for PDD1-CFP), I add CdCl2 to 0.05 ug/ml (this dose does not interfere with pairing), and 3 to 4 hours later, I will boost it to a final concentrations of 0.1ug/ml.  If I want to induce later in conjugation, I will usually induce between 0.08 and 0.1 ug/ml.  One can go a little higher, but then it can have toxic effects.

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