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CaCl2
Competent cells
1. Start
overnight with 2-3ml of LB
2. Add
1-2ml of overnight into 100ml LB
3. Incubate
and shake at 200 rpm
4. Grow
to an OD550
of about 1
5. Aliquot
culture into two separate (sterile) 50ml tubes
6. Let
stand on ice for 20 minutes
7. Make
0.1 M CaCl2 and put on ice
8. Centrifuge
in swing bucket at 3500 rpm, 10 min,
4oC
9. Pour
off supernatant
10. Resuspend pellet
in 16ml of 0.1 M CaCl2 per
50 ml culture
11. Ice for 30-60
min
12. Centrifuge at
3500 rpm, 10 min, 4oC
13. Pour off supernatant
14. Resuspend pellet
in 2-4 ml ice cold CaCl2
per tube.
15. Repeat step
12-14 two or three times On the final repeat only add 1-2ml
of CaCl2
16. (Optional) let
age 24hrs
17. If making glycerol
freeze add 1ml 80% glycerol for every
4ml CaCl2 suspended cells.
Pre-chill tubes
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