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To knock out genes in S. cerevisiae, we used a Cas9-assisted homologous recombination approach:
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==Materials==
* Build an S. cerevisiae shuttle vector expressing Cas9 and a guide RNA targeting the gene of interest.
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*Cell 60 mm Culture Dish, containing 6 ml of agar
* Use PCR to make a linear URA3 cassette flanked by homologous sequences upstream and downstream of the Cas9 target site.
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*Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
* Transform BY4735 with the plasmid and PCR DNA.  Select on Ura dropout plates.
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*Glycerol stocks of yeast strains
* Use PCR to verify the URA3 insertion.
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*15ml centrifuge tubes
  
==Resources==
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==Equipment==
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*Incubator set to 30°C.
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*Bachur & Associates Sanata Clara, CA 95050 Model LS-100-3 UV Light Exposure System
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*P1000 and P10 Micro-pipettes
  
* Background strain: [https://www.atcc.org/en/Products/All/200897.aspx BY4735].  BY4735 is a [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9483801 MATalpha 6-way auxotroph based on S288C], bearing non-revertable deletions in [[ADE2]], [[HIS3]], [[LEU2]], [[MET15]], [[TRP1]] and [[URA3]].
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==Calibration Protocol==
* Plasmids: Knock-out plasmids were built using the [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/sb500366v Dueber lab's yeast toolkit.]  Additional assembly details are below.
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*Wear rubber gloves when handling yeast samples, avoid direct exposure to UV light and wear safety glasses if needed.
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#Fill a 15ml centrifuge tube with 9,990ul of PBS.
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#Vortex yeast stock to resuspend the yeast cells.
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#Pipette 10ul of wild yeast stock into the 9,990ul of PBS to create a dilution containing 2 yeast cells per microliter.
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#Vortex dilution and prepare 7 plates with 50ul of the wild yeast dilution for about 100 yeast cells per plate.
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#Label each plate individually 0, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 for the number of seconds each plate will be exposed to the UV light.
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#Set up the UV light exposure system:
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##400 watts
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##desired time increment
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#Run yeast plates (without plate top) under the UV light for their respective times in seconds.
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#Place plates upside down in dark incubator set to 30°C for 48 hours.
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#Count number of colonies on each plate using the 0 second plate as your control to compare to. Based on how many colonies there are on each plate, determine the time frame that killed roughly 50% of the yeast cells.
  
==Construction of Cas9/sgRNA plasmids==
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==Calibration Results==
# We used the Yeast Toolkit to build a L2 plasmid containing the following functional parts:
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[[Image:4A1B2FAF-1C83-4A7A-AE89-FFC5BFBE7D35.jpeg|center|thumb|400px|CalibrationResults1]]
#* Cas9 driven by the constitutive PGK1 promoter
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[[Image:C5D74C8D-33BF-426D-9E2F-C0E9385AE258.jpeg|center|thumb|400px|CalibrationResults2]]
#* an sgRNA cassette with a GFP dropout
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*For calibration trial 1 we ran 14 plates at varying times of 2, 5, 7, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400 and 500 seconds. After giving the yeast time to grow we counted the colonies in each plate.
#* a LEU2 yeast selection cassette
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*'''Results''':2sec=139 colonies, 5sec=150 colonies, 7sec=147 colonies, 10sec=296 colonies, 20sec=16 colonies, 30sec=82 colonies, 50sec=92 colonies, 100sec=125 colonies, 150sec=289 colonies, 200sec=203 colonies, 250sec=29 colonies, 300sec=214 colonies, 400sec=176 colonies, 500sec=200 colonies.
#* a CEN6/ARS4 yeast origin of replication
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*'''Interpretation''': Even at 500 seconds there were still a lot of yeast colonies meaning 500 seconds likely wasn't long enough to stress the yeast cells as desired. There were a couple outliers that had very few colonies despite not being under the UV light for very long. This was likely because the plates didn't have the desired number of cells since it is impossible to tell exactly how many cells are on the plate until they've had time to grow.
#* an kanamycin E. coli selection casette
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[[Image:5517307E-5966-453B-98F0-1EBB618F5ABB.jpeg|center|thumb|400px|CalibrationResults3]]
#* a ColE1 E. coli origin of replication
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[[Image:FA26DC6B-6AFA-4ADD-80D9-67441E11BE3D.jpeg|center|thumb|400px|CalibrationResults4]]
# For each gene we targeted, we used [https://benchling.com/ Benchling] to select 20-bp targeting sequences adjacent to PAMs. We attempted to find targeting sequences in the first 1/4 of the gene to ensure gene disruption.
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*For calibration trial 2 we ran 6 more plates at varying times of 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000. We counted the colonies after giving the yeast time to grow.
# We designed and synthesized oligonucleotides as per the YTK instructions, annealed them, then used a GoldenGate reaction with Esp3I to clone them into the expression plasmid.  We verified the plasmid using a traditional restriction map.
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*'''Results''':500sec=123 colonies, 600sec=29 colonies, 700sec=11 colonies, 800sec=6 colonies, 900=1 colony, 1000sec=1 colony.
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*'''Interpretation''': We noticed that like before 500 seconds still had a lot of yeast colonies however 600 and 700 seconds had closer to the desired amount of yeast colonies. 800, 900 and 1000 seconds had too few yeast cells after exposure meaning these were too long to be used. With this information we decided to use 600 seconds of UV exposure for our knock-out experiments.
  
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==Knock-out Protocol==
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*Wear rubber gloves when handling yeast samples, avoid direct exposure to UV light and wear safety glasses if needed.
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#Fill 7 15ml centrifuge tube with 9,990ul of PBS.
 +
#Vortex each yeast stock to resuspend the yeast cells. (wild and 6 knock-out strains)
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#Pipette 10ul of each respective yeast stock into one of the centrifuge tubes containing 9,990ul of PBS to create a dilution containing 2 yeast cells per microliter for each strain. Make sure to label each tube so the strains don't get mixed up.
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#Vortex each dilution and prepare 14 plates total, two for each strain of yeast with 50ul of the yeast dilution for about 100 yeast cells per plate.
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#Label 7 plates with 0 and the other 7 plates with 600 for the number of seconds each plate will be exposed to the UV light. Also label what strain of yeast in in each plate, there should be a 0 plate and 600 plate for each strain.
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#Set up the UV light exposure system:
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##400 watts
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##desired time increment
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#Run yeast plates (without plate top) under the UV light for their respective times in seconds.
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#Place plates upside down in dark incubator set to 30°C for 48 hours.
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#Count number of colonies on each plate using the 0 second plate as your control to compare to. Based on how many colonies there are on each plate, determine if the knocked-out gene of the yeast had any affect on the survival of the yeast cells (improved/reduced survival).
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#Repeat the procedure above as needed to acquire the data needed.
  
==Construction of a URA3 knockout cassette==
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==Knock-out Results==
# We used [https://benchling.com/ Benchling] to identify 40 bp upstream and downstream of the Cas9 target site.
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*Knock-out strain 1:[[YOR387C]]
# We designed primers against the URA3 selection cassette on plasmid YTK74 (from the Dueber lab's yeast toolkit) to append those 40 bp to cassette upstream and downstream.
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*Knock-out strain 2:[[YKL121W]]
# We synthesized those oligonucleotides, performed the PCR, verified the PCR product using gel electrophoresis and purified it using a silica spin column.
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*Knock-out strain 3:[[YBR225W]]
 
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*Knock-out strain 4:[[YNL018C]]
==Transformation of S. cerevisiae==
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*Knock-out strain 5:[[YLR426W]]
# We used [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17401330 Gietz' PEG/SS DNA/LiAc protocol] to co-transform the Cas9/sgRNA plasmid and the URA3 cassette.
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*Knock-out strain 6:[[YGL138C]]
# We plated on leucine dropout plates to measure transformation efficiency, and uracil dropout plates to isolate clones in which the genes had been disrupted.
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====Wild type====
 
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[[Image:FD478531-2B52-4E05-9D2B-9D9DCBC79219.jpeg|center|thumb|400px|Wild strain]]
==Verification of gene disruption==
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'''Results''':
# We used a [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548894 lithium acetate / SDS method] to extract genomic DNA from putative knockout strains
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*Experiment 1:0sec=24 colonies, 600sec=58 colonies.
# We used [https://benchling.com/ Benchling] to design PCR primers upstream and downstream of the knockout site.
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*Experiment 2:0sec=95 colonies, 600sec=92 colonies.
# We used PCR followed by gel electrophoresis to determine if the URA3 cassette had inserted at the desired site.
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'''Interpretation''': The two 0sec plates are on top and the 600sec plates are on the bottom. I believe something went wrong with the wild strain run. The 0sec plat had fewer than the plate exposed to the UV light for 600sec and the second run didn't seem to be affected much by the UV light. My guess is that the number of cells each plate had in the beginning was significantly different making it hard for this data to be used reliably.

Revision as of 12:26, 21 April 2022

Materials

  • Cell 60 mm Culture Dish, containing 6 ml of agar
  • Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
  • Glycerol stocks of yeast strains
  • 15ml centrifuge tubes

Equipment

  • Incubator set to 30°C.
  • Bachur & Associates Sanata Clara, CA 95050 Model LS-100-3 UV Light Exposure System
  • P1000 and P10 Micro-pipettes

Calibration Protocol

  • Wear rubber gloves when handling yeast samples, avoid direct exposure to UV light and wear safety glasses if needed.
  1. Fill a 15ml centrifuge tube with 9,990ul of PBS.
  2. Vortex yeast stock to resuspend the yeast cells.
  3. Pipette 10ul of wild yeast stock into the 9,990ul of PBS to create a dilution containing 2 yeast cells per microliter.
  4. Vortex dilution and prepare 7 plates with 50ul of the wild yeast dilution for about 100 yeast cells per plate.
  5. Label each plate individually 0, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000 for the number of seconds each plate will be exposed to the UV light.
  6. Set up the UV light exposure system:
    1. 400 watts
    2. desired time increment
  7. Run yeast plates (without plate top) under the UV light for their respective times in seconds.
  8. Place plates upside down in dark incubator set to 30°C for 48 hours.
  9. Count number of colonies on each plate using the 0 second plate as your control to compare to. Based on how many colonies there are on each plate, determine the time frame that killed roughly 50% of the yeast cells.

Calibration Results

CalibrationResults1
CalibrationResults2
  • For calibration trial 1 we ran 14 plates at varying times of 2, 5, 7, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400 and 500 seconds. After giving the yeast time to grow we counted the colonies in each plate.
  • Results:2sec=139 colonies, 5sec=150 colonies, 7sec=147 colonies, 10sec=296 colonies, 20sec=16 colonies, 30sec=82 colonies, 50sec=92 colonies, 100sec=125 colonies, 150sec=289 colonies, 200sec=203 colonies, 250sec=29 colonies, 300sec=214 colonies, 400sec=176 colonies, 500sec=200 colonies.
  • Interpretation: Even at 500 seconds there were still a lot of yeast colonies meaning 500 seconds likely wasn't long enough to stress the yeast cells as desired. There were a couple outliers that had very few colonies despite not being under the UV light for very long. This was likely because the plates didn't have the desired number of cells since it is impossible to tell exactly how many cells are on the plate until they've had time to grow.
CalibrationResults3
CalibrationResults4
  • For calibration trial 2 we ran 6 more plates at varying times of 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 and 1000. We counted the colonies after giving the yeast time to grow.
  • Results:500sec=123 colonies, 600sec=29 colonies, 700sec=11 colonies, 800sec=6 colonies, 900=1 colony, 1000sec=1 colony.
  • Interpretation: We noticed that like before 500 seconds still had a lot of yeast colonies however 600 and 700 seconds had closer to the desired amount of yeast colonies. 800, 900 and 1000 seconds had too few yeast cells after exposure meaning these were too long to be used. With this information we decided to use 600 seconds of UV exposure for our knock-out experiments.

Knock-out Protocol

  • Wear rubber gloves when handling yeast samples, avoid direct exposure to UV light and wear safety glasses if needed.
  1. Fill 7 15ml centrifuge tube with 9,990ul of PBS.
  2. Vortex each yeast stock to resuspend the yeast cells. (wild and 6 knock-out strains)
  3. Pipette 10ul of each respective yeast stock into one of the centrifuge tubes containing 9,990ul of PBS to create a dilution containing 2 yeast cells per microliter for each strain. Make sure to label each tube so the strains don't get mixed up.
  4. Vortex each dilution and prepare 14 plates total, two for each strain of yeast with 50ul of the yeast dilution for about 100 yeast cells per plate.
  5. Label 7 plates with 0 and the other 7 plates with 600 for the number of seconds each plate will be exposed to the UV light. Also label what strain of yeast in in each plate, there should be a 0 plate and 600 plate for each strain.
  6. Set up the UV light exposure system:
    1. 400 watts
    2. desired time increment
  7. Run yeast plates (without plate top) under the UV light for their respective times in seconds.
  8. Place plates upside down in dark incubator set to 30°C for 48 hours.
  9. Count number of colonies on each plate using the 0 second plate as your control to compare to. Based on how many colonies there are on each plate, determine if the knocked-out gene of the yeast had any affect on the survival of the yeast cells (improved/reduced survival).
  10. Repeat the procedure above as needed to acquire the data needed.

Knock-out Results

Wild type

Wild strain

Results:

  • Experiment 1:0sec=24 colonies, 600sec=58 colonies.
  • Experiment 2:0sec=95 colonies, 600sec=92 colonies.

Interpretation: The two 0sec plates are on top and the 600sec plates are on the bottom. I believe something went wrong with the wild strain run. The 0sec plat had fewer than the plate exposed to the UV light for 600sec and the second run didn't seem to be affected much by the UV light. My guess is that the number of cells each plate had in the beginning was significantly different making it hard for this data to be used reliably.