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I have created an axis using Datum points with a specific vector in Abaqus, intending to rotate a cylinder around this axis. However, in the Assembly module under Rotate Instance, after selecting the instance I want to rotate, I can only choose start and end points, and the axis option is not selectable. How can I resolve this issue?
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Soohwan Jeong anwer to your querry is in this demonstration, please have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwYZN0rDrDI
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we think of a point as a spot in an Euclidean plane
indicating a position.Intuitively we assign arbitrary
framework.The confusion (for me) is when
we consider a line segment.It is made of
infinite points aligned in a certain direction.
So a segment results when all these “ directions”
are added vectorial, but a zero vector is
conceptually an infinite direction entity
so how is this vector direction specified for
a point nathematically. physically of course
we have a visible dot with visible dimension,
Any insight or explanation from all sources
is welcome.
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I am not sure if I really understand your question but:
A point is not a direction or a vector.
A Point is an element of the euclidean space which can be represented by its position vector.
A line segment is a subset of all points which match a specific rule concerning the position vectors.
I hope that helps.
If not, please give some more details of your question.
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please anyone tell me why this happens
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Hello,
Probably after the transformation of your bacterial cells by the vector, you did not spread well on the agar, the bacterial cells were not well dispersed over the entire surface of the plate.
try not to stop plating until all of the suspension is absorbed into the agar.
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Hello fellow researchers,
I am currently encountering significant challenges in a classical cloning procedure and am in need of your expertise. Here is a brief overview of my process:
  1. Amplification and Digestion: I successfully amplified a 900 bp gene and confirmed its size via agarose gel electrophoresis. Both the PCR product and the new vector were digested with SpeI and PstI. The expected size of the digested insert is approximately 850 bp.
  2. Gel Extraction and Ligation: Following digestion, we extracted the fragments from the gel (image linked below for reference). We performed ligation at vector:insert ratios of 1:3 and 1:5, after treating the vector with alkaline phosphatase and a subsequent heat deactivation step.
  3. Transformation and Screening: We transformed the ligation mix into E. coli and included a negative control consisting only of the treated vector. After plating, both the experimental and control plates showed significant colony growth. We conducted colony PCR using primers specific to the insert (as verified by the first PCR to amplify the new gene of interest, but only detected the presence of the initial plasmids, suggesting issues with either religation or incomplete digestion.
Image of Gel After Digestion: Image attached
I am also curious why, despite the removal of the insert during vector digestion, there is no apparent reduction in size on the agarose gel. Additionally, running lower concentrations on a new gel seems to still indicate the original size (6500 bp) and the absence of a double band (second image).
Given this context, I am puzzled by the overgrowth of the negative control and the absence of the insert in PCR screenings. Could there be an overlooked factor in the ligation or transformation steps that might explain the high background of vector religation?
I would greatly appreciate any insights or recommendations on potential adjustments to my protocol that could help in achieving successful incorporation of the insert. Could there be additional checks or modifications to ensure the effectiveness of the phosphatase treatment or the ligation efficiency?
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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I am guessing that one of your restriction enzymes might not be working well. As such, the vector is linearized at one restriction site only (this explains why you don't see an insert band). The efficiency of alkaline phosphatase might be low (this is dependant on your incubation duration), so only a small portion of your vector is prevented from self-ligation. I suggest you check again your restriction enzymes, and elongate the duration of restriction enzymes digestion (depending on the enzyme variants, NEW HF, I usually do 3 hrs, non-HF, up to overnight) and CIP treatment (I usually do 1 hr).
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Hi im on my final project for my thesis and i get stucked in cloning phase. My goals is to inserting one gene to vector who has another gene too. So i have a gene called llm2-mutan and llm1 who's completely ligated with pet28a(+) as my vector/backbone. I'm trying everything like ligating in 16 C overnight, 22 C 3h, etc. My gene llm2-Mutan was a pcr product. Everytime i checking my colony using PCR with electrophoresis is always showing 1100 bp, but my goals is 2100 bp because i must insert 2 gene in one vector. I hope someone can helping me with my issues. Thank u
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Lanes 3 and 4 are my vector (plasmid) which have a size 6469 bp before double digest . The size of my vector after double digest with EcoRI + XhoI is 5754 bp. Otherwise lanes 6-8 more smaller than lanes 3-4 because they are my insert (PCR product), they have a size around 1000-1100 bp. I'm doing a mutation for my insert using overlapping method with PCR to change the EcoRI restriction site. The wild type insert which is lanes 7 have a restriction site EcoRI in the middle of the gene. So if i digesting Wild type gene using EcoRI, my sequence gene suddenly get digested too. otherwise lanes 8 is single digest LLM2-Mutan whos undigested by EcoRI and have a size 1100 bp. Its different with Lanes 7 LLM2 Wild type whos get digested using EcoRI with a size 891bp.@ The lane 6 is double digest LLM2-Mutan using EcoRI and XhoI (1000 bp)
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hi there . i'm currently working on a thesis which involves designing a fast nonsingular terminal sliding-mode controller for attitude control of a quadrotor. the outputs of sliding mode controller which are three control inputs u2,u3,u4 are used as inputs of attitude dynamic subsystem which in turn generates euler angles for position dynamic subsystem. and prior to sliding mode controller block we have a kinematic inversion block which generates reference euler angles for controller to track. as you may know, on the right side of the euler angles dynamic equations we have a combination of the components p,q,r,omega_r,u2,u3,u4,Jr,etc.
we define the term (omega_r) as follows :
omega_r=w1-w2+w3_w4
in this equation , wi is the angular velocity of i'th rotor . each two rotors which rotate in the same direction (counter-clockwise or clockwise) appear with the same sign in the above equation. and on the other hand we know that vector of squares of angular velocities of rotors is equal to a 4*4 matrix multiplied by a vector consisting of four control inputs. each of four inputs should be designed in such a way that make the left side of the equation( i mean wi^2) greater than or equal to zero, because if it becomes negative, then complex values are achieved for angular velocities of rotors which are completely meaningless. and this is exactly the error that i'm facing with in the simulink :'' Domain error. To compute complex results from real x, use 'sqrt(complex(x))''. and i should mention that i used to achieve reference values for fi,teta,sai by a sin^-1 block but then i wondered that the possible cause for this error might be that the term inside the sin^-1 gets greater than 1 or less than -1 so it outputs complex results for reference values of angles . so instead of designing the kinematic inversion block based on sin^-1 , i decided to design it based on tan^-1 block. but even after doing this, the debugger also keeps giving the same error. so it attributed this error to the fact that maybe u(vector of ui's) is changing in such a way that makes the left side of the aforementioned equation negative. and if we want matlab to calculate square root of left side, instead of sqrt(x), we should write sqrt(complex(x)) which is wrong because complex values for angular velocitis are meaningless in our thesis. i have attached a photo of my own calculations for better understanding.
i would appreciate any suggestion of yours on how to fix this error or where might this error originate from.
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Syed Muhammad Amrr thank you for your advice. i decided to simplify the problem in terms of its controller's complexity.so i used an ordinary(simple) sliding mode instead of terminal sliding mode and also i put a saturation function in rotors squares of velocities path to make the rotors square of velocities not exceed from zero toward negative values and fortunately it worked out .@
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Hello,
I am new user of DIANA FEA. I am trying to analyse a masonry structure.
But I am getting this error message:
GEOMETRY: NR=1
SEVERITY: ABORT
ERROR CODE: /DIANA/LB/DS30/2236
ERRORMSG.A: Can't normalize null vector.
DIANA-JOB ABORTED.
Can you help me please?
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You might be giving the wrong geometry to the interface. Please check the details of the error either its specific to some elements or whole. This happens when your model geometry is not properly defined.
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"How do we understand special relativity?"
The Quantum FFF Model differences: What are the main differences of Q-FFFTheory with the standard model? 1, A Fermion repelling- and producing electric dark matter black hole. 2, An electric dark matter black hole splitting Big Bang with a 12x distant symmetric instant entangled raspberry multiverse result, each with copy Lyman Alpha forests. 3, Fermions are real propeller shaped rigid convertible strings with dual spin and also instant multiverse entanglement ( Charge Parity symmetric) . 4, The vacuum is a dense tetrahedral shaped lattice with dual oscillating massless Higgs particles ( dark energy). 5, All particles have consciousness by their instant entanglement relation between 12 copy universes, however, humans have about 500 m.sec retardation to veto an act. ( Benjamin Libet) It was Abdus Salam who proposed that quarks and leptons should have a sub-quantum level structure, and that they are compound hardrock particles with a specific non-zero sized form. Jean Paul Vigier postulated that quarks and leptons are "pushed around" by an energetic sea of vacuum particles. 6 David Bohm suggested in contrast with The "Copenhagen interpretation", that reality is not created by the eye of the human observer, and second: elementary particles should be "guided by a pilot wave". John Bell argued that the motion of mass related to the surrounding vacuum reference frame, should originate real "Lorentz-transformations", and also real relativistic measurable contraction. Richard Feynman postulated the idea of an all pervading energetic quantum vacuum. He rejected it, because it should originate resistance for every mass in motion, relative to the reference frame of the quantum vacuum. However, I postulate the strange and counter intuitive possibility, that this resistance for mass in motion, can be compensated, if we combine the ideas of Vigier, Bell, Bohm and Salam, and a new dual universal Bohmian "pilot wave", which is interpreted as the EPR correlation (or Big Bang entanglement) between individual elementary anti-mirror particles, living in dual universes.
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Abbas Kashani
A lot to work with, Abbas.
However, I am standing in a completely different position, and want to share my work with you. I hope you are interested about this completely distinct perspective.
My claim is that Einstein established a jump that is not allowed, yet everyone followed along.
Einstein and Newton's starting point is the behavior of matter through space. As such, one should find as answer something about the behavior of matter moving through space, and yet Einstein did not do that.
To make the point understandable quickly, Einstein had not yet heard about the Big Bang yet. So, while he devised his special relativity, he actually had not incorporated the most important behavior of matter through space.
Instead, he ended up hanging all behaviors of matter on spacetime. It does not matter that his calculations are correct.
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Let me find a simple example to show what is going on.
We are doing research on mice in a cage, and after two years we formulated a correct framework that fully captures all possible behaviors of these mice in the cage. That's the setup.
Now comes the mistake:
The conclusion is that the cage controls the mice in their behaviors.
Correctly, we would have said that the mice are in control of themselves, yet the cage restricts them in their behavior. We would not say that the cage controls the mice.
Totally incorrect of course, and yet that is what Einstein did. He established a reality in which matter no longer explains the behavior of matter through space, but made it space (spacetime) that explains the behavior of matter. It is a black&white position that has to be replaced by the correct framework (which is a surprise because it is not based on one aspect, but on both aspects).
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I know I am writing you from a perspective not often mentioned, and it may not interest you. I'll find out if you are interested in delving deeper into this or not.
Here is an article in which I delve into this matter more deeply:
Article On a Fully Mechanical Explanation of All Behaviors of Matter...
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"Richard Feynman postulated the idea of an all pervading energetic quantum vacuum. He rejected it, because it should originate resistance for every mass in motion, relative to the reference frame of the quantum vacuum."
Richard Feynman's idea is perfect, and there is no reason to reject it. The existence of vacuum energy, or better dark energy is consistent with Einstein's field equations with a positive cosmological constant.
The energy gain from mass or energy in motion leads to an increasing dark energy density.
The only idea which is missing, is the answer to the question: What happens with the additionally gained energy density?
As an answer to that question I propose the following working hypothese:
This energy is used to recycle star fuel from black holes.
On a first glance, this answer looks as being pure madness, because black holes with their unconvincible gravity seem to be a deposit of matter for eternity.
But in fact there is a plausible possibility. This has to do with the negative energy density of gravitational fields and the non-existence of a negatively definite energy density.
But we need open minded thinking in order to delve deeper into details.
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"How do we understand special relativity?"
- the answer to this question, which is really fundamental one, since is about what is some physical theory as a whole; what really means – why and how the postulates of a theory, in this case of the SR, really are formulated, and why and how the postulates
- which in any theory fundamentally – as that happens in mathematics, where axioms fundamentally cannot be proven – aren’t proven; while are formulated only basing on some experimental data, which fundamentally prove nothing, though one experiment that is outside a theory prediction proves that this theory is either wrong, or at least its application is limited.
Returning to the SR, which is based on really first of all four postulates – the SR-1905/1908 versions relativity principle, SR-1905 also on the postulate that light propagates in 3D XYZ space with constant speed of light independently on light source/ an observer’s speeds; and, additionally,
- in both theories it is postulated (i) that fundamentally there exist no absolute Matter’s spacetime, and (ii) - [so] that all/every inertial reference frames are absolutely completely equivalent and legitimate.
In the standard now in mainstream physics SR-1908 additionally to the SR-1905 it is postulated also that observed contraction of moving bodies’ lengths, and slowing down of moving clocks tick rates, comparing with the length and tick rates when bodies and clocks are at rest in “stationary” frames, is caused by the “fundamental relativistic properties and effects”, i.e. “space contraction”, “time dilation”, etc..
Really from yet the (i) and (ii) postulates any number of really senseless consequences completely directly, rigorously, and unambiguously follow, the simplest one is the Dingle objection to the SR;
- from this, by completely rigorous proof by contradiction completely directly, rigorously, and unambiguously it follows , first of all, that
- Matter’s spacetime is absolute, that so some “absolute” frames that are at rest in the absolute 3DXYZ space can exist, while applications, i.e. measurements of distances and time intervals, of moving in the space inertial frames aren’t completely adequate to the objective reality; and
- there exist no the “relativistic properties and effects”.
Etc. However really the SR first of all is based on the indeed extremely mighty Galileo- Poincaré relativity principle.
That is another thing that
- according to SR-1905 relativity principle there is some extremely potent entity “light”, the constancy of which for/by some mystic reasons/ways forces moving bodies to contract and moving clocks to slow down tick rates; and
- the SR 1908 relativity principle is practically omnipotent, so the moving frames, bodies, clocks for/by some mystic reasons/ways really contract/dilate even evidently fundamental space and time.
All that above in the SR really is/are only postulated illusions of the authors, nonetheless, again, the Galileo- Poincaré relativity principle is really . extremely mighty, and the SR indeed in most cases at everyday physical practice is applied in completely accordance with the objective reality. The fundamental flaws of the SR reveal themselves only on fundamental level.
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So let’s continue about what is “special relativity”
In the SS post above it is pointed that Matter’s spacetime is fundamentally absolute, however to say more it is necessary to clarify - what are “space” and “time”, just because of the authors of the SR – and whole mainstream physics till now - fundamentally didn’t/don/t understand what these fundamental phenomena/notions are, the really mystic and simply fundamentally wrong things in the SR were/are introduced in this theory.
What are these phenomena/notions, and what are all other really fundamental phenomena/notions, first of all in this case “Space”, “Time”, “Energy”, “Information”,
- and “Matter”– and so everything in Matter, i.e. “particles”, “fundamental Nature forces” – and so “fields”, etc., which is/are fundamentally completely transcendent/uncertain/irrational in the mainstream philosophy and sciences, including physics,
- can be, and is, clarified only in framework of the Shevchenko-Tokarevsky’s philosophical 2007 “The Information as Absolute” conception, and more concretely in physics in the SS&VT Planck scale informational physical model, in this case it is enough to read
More see the link above, here now only note, that, as that is rigorously scientifically rationally shown in the model, Matter absolutely for sure is some informational system of informational patterns/systems – particles, fields, stars, etc., which, as that is shown in the model, is based on a simple binary reversible logics.
So everything that exists and happens in Matter is/are some disturbances in the Matter’s ultimate base – the (at least) [4+4+1]4D dense lattice of primary elementary logical structures – (at least) [4+4+1]4D binary reversible fundamental logical elements [FLE], which [lattice] is placed in the Matter’s fundamentally absolute, fundamentally flat, fundamentally continuous, and fundamentally “Cartesian”, (at least) [4+4+1]4D spacetime with metrics (at least) (cτ,X,Y,Z, g,w,e,s,ct); FLE “size” and “FLE binary flip time” are Planck length, lP, and Planck time, tP.
The disturbances are created in the lattice after some the lattice FLE is impacted, with transmission to it, by some non-zero at least 4D space, momentum P[boldmeans 4D vector] in utmost universal Matter’s space with metrics (cτ,X,Y,Z). The impact causes in the lattice sequential FLE-by-FLE flipping, which, since the flipping cannot propagate in the lattice with 4D speed more than the flipping speed c=lP/tP [really at particles creation and motion c√2, more see the link, but that isn’t essential here].
Some FLE flipping above along a direct 4D line can be caused by a practically infinitesimal P impact; but if P isn’t infinitesimal, that causes flipping FLE precession and corresponding propagation of the “FLE-flipping point” in the 4D space above along some 4D helix,
- i.e. causes creation of some close-loop algorithm that cyclically runs on FLE “hardware ” with the helix’s frequency ω, having momentum P=mc above, mis inertial mass, the helix radius is λ=λ/P;
- and the helix’s 4D “ axis” is always directed along P – particles are some “4D gyroscopes”.
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Sergey Shevchenko added a reply
So let’s continue about what is “special relativity”.
In the SS posts above it is pointed that everything that exists and happens in Matter is/are some disturbances in the Matter’s ultimate base – the (at least) [4+4+1]4D dense lattice of FLEs, which [lattice] is placed in the Matter’s fundamentally absolute, fundamentally flat, fundamentally continuous, and fundamentally “Cartesian”, spacetime,
- and that happens always in utmost universal “kinematical” Matter’s space with metrics (cτ,X,Y,Z), and corresponding spacetime with metrics (cτ,X,Y,Z ct), where ct is the real time dimension.
At that particles, most of which compose real bodies, at every time moment exist as “FLE –flipping point” that move along some4D helixes that have frequencies ω, having 4D momentums P=mc, m are inertial masses, a helix radius is λ=λ/P;
- and the helix’s 4D “ axis” is always directed along Pparticles are some “4D gyroscopes”.
So in Matter there exist two main types of particles – “T-particles”, which are created by momentums that are directed along the -axis [more generally – by 4D momentums cτ-components, but here that isn’t too essential], and so, if are at rest in the 3DXYZ space, move only along cτ-axis with the speed of light, and at that a T- particle’s algorithm ticks with maximal “own frequency”, the particle’s momentum is P0=m0c, where, correspondingly, m0 is the “rest mass”.
If a such T-particle, after some 3D space impact with a 3D space momentum p, moves also in 3D space with a velocity V, having 4D momentum P=P0+p, its speed along the cτ-axis decreases by the Pythagoras theorem in (1-V2/c2)1/2 , i.e. in reverse Lorentz factor,
- and, at that, despite that the helix’s frequency increases, the algorithm is “diluted by “blank” 3D space FLEs flips. So the “own frequency above” decreases in Lorentz factor, so the algorithm ticks slower; and so, say, moving clocks that are some algorithms as well, tick slower in Lorentz factor as well; if a particle algorithm has some defect, and so at every its tick it can break with some probability, so the particle is unstable and decay, such moving in 3D space particles live longer.
Nothing, of course, happens with time, there is no any the SR’s “time dilation”.
The post is rather long already, so now
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Roggers Waibi added a reply
As proposed by Albert Einstein, Special relativity fundamentally transforms our understanding of space, time, and the nature of reality. At its core, special relativity postulates two key principles: the constancy of the speed of light and the relativity of simultaneity. The former states that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion. This principle defies common intuition but has been rigorously confirmed by experiments. The latter principle, the relativity of simultaneity, suggests that events that appear simultaneous to one observer may not be simultaneous to another observer in relative motion. Special relativity introduces the concept of spacetime, wherein space and time are intertwined, and observers in relative motion will experience time dilation and length contraction effects. These phenomena have been validated through numerous experiments, such as the famous Michelson-Morley experiment and subsequent tests involving particle accelerators and high-speed particles. Special relativity forms the basis for modern physics, influencing fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology, and challenging our intuitive notions of space and time.
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Article The Simplest Form of the Lorentz Transformations
Waibi's answer is correct. However, the postulates of SR do not generate understanding. The referenced paper provides evidence that the math underlying SR can mostly be obtained from Hamiltonian notions. Since Hamiltonian concepts are universal in dynamical systems, the mathematical relations of SR are universal as well.
Sergey Shevchenko added a reply
Rather detailed consideration of what the SR is see in series of SS posts in this thread sister https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_we_understand_special_relativity/2, pages 1,2;
So here only a few notes to
“…Special relativity introduces the concept of spacetime, wherein space and time are intertwined, and observers in relative motion will experience time dilation and length contraction effects. ..”
- really the concept of spacetime, wherein space and time are intertwined is fundamentally wrong.
Matter’s spacetime is fundamentally unique, fundamentally absolute, fundamentally flat, fundamentally continuous, and fundamentally “Cartesian”, ( [4+4+1]4D spacetime with metrics (at least) (cτ,X,Y,Z, g,w,e,s,ct), where all dimensions fundamentally are independent on each other; utmost universal – “kinematic” spacetime has metrics (cτ,X,Y,Z,ct),
- and, of course, fundamentally there cannot be any intertwining of any dimensions, any “time dilations”, “space contraction”, etc.
So that
“….These phenomena have been validated through numerous experiments, such as the famous Michelson-Morley experiment and subsequent tests involving particle accelerators and high-speed particles…
- really is quite incorrect. No any “intertwining” , “time dilations”, “space contraction” weren’t experimentally observed – that is fundamentally impossible. All what indeed is observed is/are real contraction of moving bodies lengths, slowing tick rates of moving clocks and intrinsic processes rates in unstable particles,
- but bodies aren’t “space” – though, of course are in space; clocks aren’t “time” though, of course tick in time, which [space and time] compose fundamentally only an empty container where everything in Matter exists and changes.
Though that
“….Special relativity forms the basis for modern physics, influencing fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology, and challenging our intuitive notions of space and time…”
- is essentially correct, since the SR is based on the indeed extremely mighty Galileo-Poincaré relativity principle; and so in everyday physical practice the fact that in the SR the relativity principle is absolutized up to absurd/illusory real interactions of particles, bodies, reference frames, etc., with space/time/spacetime is inessential. Again more see the pointed above SS posts in the linked sister thread.
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Opinion Article
Orientation in Space
Branko V. Miskovic
Independent Scientist, Novi Sad, Serbia
Abstract
The position, motion and acceleration of physical objects in the natural laws understand a relevant reference frame. In this sense, the two extreme solutions have been mutually confronted: an absolute cosmic frame or certain equivalence in a class of the frames at least. The imagined formal frames need be connected to evident material bodies. Owing to the complex mutual motions of all celestial bodies, none of them deserves a privileged status. Not only that the vacuum medium is inaccessible by instruments, but its nature and existence are questionable. On the other hand, even the limited equivalence of the formal frames, in the special relativity, does not obey some exceptional technical situations. A few restrictions of relativity in the mechanical and EM processes are here presented. As the synthesis of the two extreme theses, Mach understood a local orientation, in relation to the dominant material surroundings. In the technical practice, such a frame is connected to Earth. The astronomy and astronautics are tacitly referred to the local surroundings, just determined by nearby celestial bodies or their gravitations.
Aim: The solution of one of the crucial questions in physics.
Study design: Comparison and relation of known physical facts.
Methodology: Exhaustive reexamination of these relations.
Study duration: Throughout the author’s working life.
Results: Instead of the absolute or arbitrary orientation, the local preferential frames are finally affirmed and applied.
Keywords: Absolute, Relative, Local, Frame, Motion
Introduction
Physical laws describe the object interactions, in the form of the forces or energies determined by the kinematical quantities. The material bodies or particles, as the objects, represent the concentrated amounts of respective substantial quantities. The static, kinetic and dynamic forces are respectively determined by the positions, motions and accelerations of such objects [1,2]. The three mentioned kinematical quantities need be determined in a relevant reference frame, connected to an evident material body. With respect to the perpetual mutual motions, rotations and revolutions of all celestial bodies, the relevant reference is very questionable. Not only that such a frame is due to determine all the forces and energies, but also the object trajectories. Though theoretically simplest, the absolute reference frame has not been identified. At least approximately, the local technical orientation usually concerns Earth. Even after substitution of the terrestrial by solar orientation, it is not adequate in the wider cosmic space, out of the solar planetary system.
With respect to the limited former sights, the initial problem took the cosmological sense. Irrespective of the physical laws, a comparative body played the role of the cosmic center. In the first view, Earth seemed to be such a center. However, the paths of the other planets in this frame are extremely complex and illogical. Instead of the irregular planetary paths in relation to Earth, their concentric, circular or slightly elliptical orbits around Sun, obeying the three Keppler’s rules, were the bases for reliable formulation of the law of gravitation. On the other hand, such Moon’s orbit around Earth appears similarly complex in relation to Sun. Overlooking this fact, the traumatic transition from the narrower into wider references gave the impression of a great scientific revolution. In the final instance, none of these two references is applicable in the wider cosmic space, pointing to the predominant material surroundings, in the given spatial domain or respective level of observation.
A similar problem appeared in electrodynamics. Though the terrestrial orientation satisfies the usual technical practice, the reference of light propagation in the wider space is problematic. In the aim of confirmation of the expected absolute reference, connected to the rigid vacuum medium, Michelson made the known experiment, proposed by Maxwell. The difference of the two relative speeds of light in the longitudinal and transverse directions in relation to the orbiting Earth had been calculated in advance. However, the negative practical result pointed to the local preferential frame, connected to Earth. With respect to the traumatic Copernican U-turn, this fact has not been noticed nor emphasized. The later more accurate results, in amount of a few percent of the calculated value, have not been explained but are tacitly neglected or even forgotten by the time. Instead of the preferential local frames, the arbitraryorientation is proposed and imposed, as the provisory alternative at least.
In the absence of a unique reliable frame, the attention is paid to the mutual relations between two arbitrary frames, which needed equivalence is expressed by the principle of relativity. However, this principle is strictly satisfied by the static forces only, dependent on mutual distance of two interacting objects (Fig. 1), as the difference of their positions in the two frames. The kinetic force in Ampere’s law depends on the speed product [1], inexpressible by the relativity. Including one speed into the field expression, the relativity concerns mutual motion of the magnet and conductor. The dynamic forces, without the other explicit object, are especially problematic. The relativity must be thus restricted to uniform rectilinear motion. The obtained relations of the distances and times pushed back the orientation itself, and the geometrically expressed gravitation did not at all exceed the restrictions of relativity. The two unresolved problems are thus shadowed by the two useless theories.
Restricted Relativity
With implicit idea of relativity, Newton made the wellknown experiment for checking the needed frame equivalence. Rotating a container with water, he observed the radial forces manifest by the concave water surface. Comparing the stationary and transitional kinematical states, he reliably excluded the force dependence on the container rotation, but referred it to the undetermined wider surroundings. In the absence of the precise answer, he assumed a unique and rigid cosmic frame. Not being theoretically determined nor practically confirmed, this frame is the subject for the further reexamination.
Looking for a better solution, E. Mach asked the known double question. Would the water surface shape be influenced by the more massivecontainer, or even by the rotating cosmos? The former part suggested the hierarchy and fractional sum of more local frames, but latter one expected the equivalence of the two extreme frames, already denied by Newton. However, the known fact calls in question the former thesis at least. The forces acting on its satellites do not depend on the rotation of Earth, as the container carrying their orbits around Sun.
A similar result Faraday obtained in electrodynamics. Rotating a conducting disc in the front of cylindrical magnet, he noticed the kinetic induction [1] between the sliding contacts placed in the center and rim of the disc (Fig. 2). However, the magnet rotation was ineffective at all, so that the common rotation gave the same former result. Touching the magnet by the contacts directly, its conducting body took over the role of the disc, with the same induction. Alike the celestial case, this one does not satisfy the relativity. Unlike the former example, not strictly reconsidered, this one can be explained.
Figure 2. Faraday’s kinetic induction
The relativity here concerns the difference of the kinetic and dynamic inductions (1). The former of them is ascribed to the object motion (v) through the present magnetic field (B).
The speed of the causing electricity is implicitly contained in the field expression. On the other hand, the speed (U) of the field itself determines the dynamic induction.
v × B + B × U = (vU) × B (1)
However, the objects and domains of appearance of the two inductions essentially distinguish. Unlike the kinetic induction affecting the moving electricity only, dynamic one affects all the present electricity. Moreover, the former induction concerns all the object motion perpendicular to the field, but latter one is also conditioned by the field gradient [1]:
∇ × E = U · ∇B = – ∂B/∂t (2)
Figure 3. Kinetic and dynamic inductions
Figure 3 compares the two EM inductions. The current in the central conductor is followed by the circular magnetic field. The transverse motion of a parallel or perpendicular object conductor causes the kinetic induction. Such motion of the carrier, along the field gradient, causes the dynamic induction in the parallel objects only. In the transverse (or circular directions Fig. 2), the field gradient equals to naught. Similar relation may be ascribed to the gravitation on the celestial orbits. The field rotations transverse to their gradients are irrelevant.
Light Propagation
All waves, from the mechanical, via sound up to EM ones, as the medium disturbances, propagate at the speeds determined by the elasticity and inertia of respective media [1]. Unlike the former two waves, concerning matter consisting of the particles, the last wave type also propagates through the vacuum medium. Though not explain this medium, the waves demand its existence. The addition of matter, increasing the medium density, causes the slower propagation. The explanations of various physical forces [2] finally rely on respective media. Though light consists of photons, as the energetic particles, it propagates at the wave speed, determined by Maxwell’s relation (9b). The negation of vacuum medium – by special relativity, does not offer any other explanation of the above phenomena. The propagation of each disturbance is referred to the medium, irrespective of motion of passive observers or their instruments.
The same speed of light relative to the moving devices, or to their formal frames and passive observers, cannot be understood nor explained. Michelson’s result, just being referred to Earth, can be generalized to the other celestial bodies, but not at all to the arbitrary (inertial) frames. Apart from such the exaggerated generalization of the result, this opinion may be also conditioned by some cosmic relations [3]. Owing to the cosmic expansion, two bodies are mutually moving away at the speed (v) proportional with their distance. Despite this fact, the light starts from its emitter, propagates through space and arrives to the detector at the same speed (c) – relative to the local surroundings. In fact, it propagates accelerating in relation to both mentioned devices: from the speed c up to c + v, or from c – v up to c, respectively. The apparent difficulty is thus exceeded.
Doppler’s effects, at motion of the signal emitter or detector (3), respectively, strictly obey the frames connected to the local media. The ratios of the propagated and emitted frequencies – in the former, or of the detected and propagatedones – in latter cases, accord with the ratios of respective speed pairs [3]. If the two relative speeds, (c – u) & (c – v), were equal to the absolute one (c), these two effects could not arise. At common motion of the two devices, the two effects compensate each other, with the detected equal to emitted frequencies. The same result arises at opposite motion of the medium, irrespective of the propagation itself corrected for the medium speed.
wc/wu = c/(c – u) wv/wc = (c – v)/c (3)
However, at light propagating through running water Fizeau obtained the result (4), dependent on the factor k, as the ratio of the material and total field components [1,2]. Apart from the slower propagation, the frame is drawn in the direction (v) of the water flow, as the moving material stratum.
c = co/er + kv k = P/D = 1 – 1/er (4)
The similar Faraday’s effect, twisting the polarization of light propagating along magnetic field lines, is caused by circulation of the static (F), in the form of kinetic (A) potentials. The former of them plays the role of the moving stratum.
A = emVF ∇·A = – em∂F/∂t (5)
The factor of the frame draw in the cosmic space may be similarly determined. Apart from the slower propagation in the present gravitation, the frame draw is determined by the ratio of the moving and dominant potentials.
Though applied in practice, the direct negation of the arbitrary orientation by Sagnac’s effect is ignored in the theory. Namely, two opposite light beams, propagating along the perimeter of a rotating figure, give the evident phase difference, according to the different relative speeds of light. This effect is multiplied by application of a solenoidal light conductor, instead of the figure perimeter. Such device is applied for registration of the angular airplane deviation, instead of the mechanical gyroscope. The references of the observer, in a resting laboratory or the rotating airplane, do not at all influence the result. This practical argument exceeds all the alleged relativistic proofs.
Transformations
The kinetic and dynamic inductions (1) added to the central static field [1] give the summary field around a moving charge (6). The longitudinal speed (V= v) of electric, and transverse (U) – of magnetic fields, obey the principle of relativity [1]. Alike the static field – at rest (E), the summary result (E’) is also centrally symmetric, tending to naught approaching the speed of light propagation. Apart from the magnetic field not affecting resting objects, the axial dynamic induction – subtracted from the radial static field, gives the ellipsoidal result.
E’ = E + (vU) × B = (1 – emu2)E (6)
Missing the dynamic induction or understanding the object-field motion (u= vU), H. A Lorentz formulated the summary force (7a). Expecting the similar and paralel magnetic phenomena [1], the symmetric magnetic relation was understood (7b), with the opposite mutual motion of magnetic poles and electric field. In fact, these two equations express the same relations, with the two equal and opposite mutual speeds. Not only that the free magnetic poles do not exist [1], but the field actions on the magnetic moments are essentially distinct. Apart from the former conditionalequation, latter one is fictional.
E’ = E + u × B B’ = B + emE × u (7)
The inverted set (8,9) exchanges the causes and effects. The opposite motion of the frame is understood. The set determinant (8b), as the factor (6) restricted to the transverse plane, points to the privileged frame, connected to the medium. For the sake of the frame equivalence adopted in advance, this value is arbitrarily distributed between the two sets: by 1/g in each of them. The formal inversion only is thus kept.
E = (E’ – u × B’)/g2 g2= 1 – emu2 (8)
B = (B’ – emE’× u)/g2 em = 1/c2 (9)
This action implies the explicit negation of vacuum medium at least. To push back the media, the product of the two constants is usually substituted by the speed c (9b).
By the factor distribution, the transverse field components (7) are arbitrarily increased, calling in question the mathematical form of Maxwell’s equations. Owing to their huge authority, the problem has been avoided by the complementary deformations of the two remaining 4D axes, longitudinal and temporalones!! (10). The former relation divides the position transformation (Fig. 4) by the factor g less from unit, but latter one also transforms the time. Owing to the limited relativity, these transformations are restricted to the uniform rectilinear speed u, in relation to the still unknown relevant reference frame!
x’ = (xut)/g t’ = (tux/c2)/ g (10)
Figure 4. The position transformation
The equations (10) somehow distinguish lengths and times in the two frames, depending on their mutual motion. Not only that this dependence cannot be physically explained, but lengths and times would depend on the speed, as their ratio! Moreover, the lengths depend on a given time beginning, as well as times – on the adopted frame position. Unlike the time possibly calculated from the frame overlap, the position of a chosen frame cannot be referred to any privileged location. The relative time, dependent on the object position – in the arbitrary frame, is undetermined!! Not only that the reference frames are arbitrary, but represent the mere mental constructs. There is not any logic by which their mutual motion can influence lengths and times, irrespective of any motion of the passive observers.
The ratio of the two equations (10) gives the relativistic speed transformation (11). Here v & v’ denote the object speeds in the two frames, and u – their mutual motion. The usual speed difference is here divided by the nominator less from unit, thus being artificially increased. Applied to light – as the object, this equation turns into the identity: c’ = c. Following through the sequence of inconsistencies, this is the pretext for the same speed of light at all (inertial) frames. This opinion is here already denied by the sequence of empirical facts.
v’ = x’/t’ = (vu)/(1 – vu/c2) (11)
Avoiding or exceeding all these speculations, Hobble’s ratio of the distance and speed at the mutual motion away of two celestial bodies just understands the unique cosmic time. Some local times, deviating from the absolute one, are theoretically inconceivable and practically impossible. The real transformation of the position (Fig. 4), concerning the absolute time, is the only acceptable alternative. Namely, the positions of an object in the two frames differ no more or less but for the mutual distance covered after the initial frame overlap. In the unique space and time, this is the only reasonable relation.
General Relativity
Despite the sequence of formal inconsistencies above clearly presented, the restriction to a uniform rectilinear motion is the unique declared difficulty of special relativity. Alike inertia being generalized to the force action, Einstein tried to generalize his special to general theories. After some wander through chaotic speculations, he lost from view the initial problem. Owing to the kinetic and dynamic forces out of relativity, he returned to the static laws. On the basis of their possible balance, inertia is reduced to gravitation!? The radial field around a body is copied into the super-spherical space, along t-axis.
Alike gravitation projected on a slope, it itself is thus treated as the similar projection of some super-force acting from the cosmic center (Fig. 5). The field around a body is illustrated by the spatial curvature, as the local deformation of space, in the form of the funnel. At the interstellar space of the regular spatial curvature, such the projection equals to naught.
Figure 5. Local and global curvatures
Without any valid criteria, this concept is widely taken as the theory of gravitation. In the equivalent form, it speaks nothing about the essence of gravitation, but only further mystifies this phenomenon. If the formal mistakes and/or inconsistencies be excluded, there is no any reason by which its results will differ from the classical ones. At least accidentally, this analogy announces the radial cosmic expansion along temporal axis [3], irrespective of the red shift lately noticed.
Albert Einstein
In these times failing in the authorities of any kind, Einstein is an unquestionable scientific authority, if not in general, then in the modern physics at least. Instead of the resort to the praise, a brief and unbiased, as much as possible adequate valorization of his scientific contributions need be here presented. Avoiding unnecessary repetitions, the arguments rely on the above text and its references, also having in view the scientific criteria. Unlike majority of the other scientists, being famous concerning their unquestionable contributions, Einstein is celebrated with respect to his controversial views.
Apart from the photo-electric effect, Einstein deserved the leading position by the three ideas at least: the fourth dimension, curvilinear space and equation: w = mc2. Although the former two ideas were not originally his, Einstein emphasized and affirmed them self-confidentially. The indirect and complicated derivation of his equation seems to be accidental, resulted from the random formal procedures. Apart from the considerable simplification of this derivation, a direct its inference has been also presented in [2]. Not only that this equation is thus affirmed, but its convincing interpretation is finally enabled.
Unfortunately, none of the three mentioned ideas or results had been fully elaborated and applied by Einstein. At least in principle, the fourth axis is directly colliding with relative time. According to the tensor form of Maxwell’s equations [1], time is a real metrical axis. The probable restriction of the medium of light to the spatial gravitation excludes its temporal propagation. The relative time calls in questions its physical sense and reality. Not only that this concept is fantastic and arbitrary, but cannot be argued by any physical reason. At least some of its contradictions are here already clearly presented.
The idea of curvilinear cosmic space has been also unfinished. Though the Riemannian frame excludes the surrounding cosmic background [3], the modern cosmologists understand it. Even the surrounding cosmoses are expected in the background thus tacitly predicted. This inconsistency of the followers, not trying to finalize Einstein’s principal ideas, may be understood: the famous authorities would not make logical mistakes or give incomplete ideas. His equation has not been interpreted so far. Instead of its undefined application, it can be ascribed to the massive particles, unlike similar Plank’s relation for photons.
At least a part of Einstein’s fame relies on the arbitrary spatial orientation, as the main his failure. It implies the same speeds of light at all so called inertial reference frames, declared equivalent by the principle of relativity. Without sufficient vision of physical processes, as the corrective criterion, the formal calculations are prone to various mistakes or inconsistencies. In the final instance, the relativities of lengths and times are unacceptable at all. As the needed condition for these views, the vacuum medium had been explicitly negated. Imposed by the authority, this view still hinders the further development.
Let us also emphasize some Einstein’s methodological errors, mainly reducible to typical inconsistencies. Such is the arbitrary substitution of two similar math expressions by their geometric average. The average of two Doppler’s effects he applied to the cosmic red shift of light [3]. The opposite signs in the two field tensors he substituted by the imaginary unit [1]. In the opposite sense, the set determinant (8b) has been distributed between the two sets. The parallel EM phenomena (7b) were already understood. By the explicit negation of the medium, Einstein imposed the kinematical relativity.
The incomplete or doubtful principal views may be added. Apart from the static interactions, the relativity can be applied to the special cases of some distinct forces. Concerning two Mach’s ideas, Einstein chose the frame equivalence as the worst one. The unexplained kinetic induction was neglected. The lengths and times dependent on the moving observers fail in any explanation. The dependence of the relative time on the adopted spatial frame has not been noticed even by the numerous opponents!? The wide acceptance of relativity is not strictly founded, but imposed in the absence of the competent critiques.
By mess of the notions, Einstein confused the opponents. He substituted the two EM constants by the abstract speed of light, thus pushing back a vacuum medium at least. The absolute light propagation through the medium, irrespective of the instruments and observers, he substituted by the invariant relative speed. The temporal cosmic process, independent of the transverse spatial motion [3], he ascribed to the light propagation in a given spatial direction. The same speeds of light in the local cosmic situations imposed the additional confusion. All these facts taken together made the full mess in the theory.
Substitution of some theses is also frequent. The ellipsoidal electric field deformation around a moving charge, caused by the longitudinal dynamic induction [1], he ascribed to the increased transverse fields, by distribution of the factor g. The incomplete medium draw by the running water he ascribed to the relativistic speed transformation. Instead of the stronger structural stability, the shorter lives of speedy mesons are ascribed to the relative time. The two former cases at least do not obey the numerical relations. In the final instance, there cannot be even enumerate all Einstein’s inconsistencies.
Results
The relativity, as a postulate, is valid for the static forces only. Owing to various reasons, it cannot be applied to the kinetic and dynamic processes. The relativities of distinct physical forces are restricted to the special technical situations.
The same speed of light in a class of the frames, implied by the relativity principle and additional inconsistencies, cannot be anyhow understood nor explained. The generalization of the local to arbitrary orientation is exaggerated.
A sequence of the wave effects somehow contradicts to the relativistic views. At least one of them directly denies the arbitrary orientation of light. The navigational system (GPS) could not take into account the relativistic views.
The relativistic transformations are founded on the sequence of theoretical mistakes and inconsistencies. The dependence of the relative time on the adopted spatial frame is especially unacceptable and must be refuted forever.
Imposing relativity of lengths and times, the special theory lost from view the orientation. Reducing gravitation to geometry, the general theory did not generalize special one. These two theories only mystify the physical relations.
Not only that the restriction to so called inertial frames has not been exceeded, but its definition understands in advance a relevant reference frame. Going into the opposite direction, this opinion terminates in the local orientation.
Starting from the unique (absolute) reference – as the thesis, and arbitrary orientation – as antithesis, Mach’s local orientation in relation to the predominant material surroundings – as the synthesis, satisfies all the practical situations.
Conclusion
Between Earth and Sun, Copernicus chose the latter referent body. Newton similarly preferred the wider surroundings to the water container. Amongst the two Mach’s theses, of the local or arbitrary orientation, Einstein took the latter one. Not only that the orientation is thus overlooked, but disabled. The remaining local orientation, relative to a dominant mass, with some draw of the frame by other masses, satisfies all the practical situations. Although the rotation of Earth does not influence the satellites, its revolution firmly carries their orbits around Sun.
References
1. Miskovic BV. Foundation of Electrodynamics. Int J Phys Stud Res. 2023; 4(1): 98-103. doi: 10.18689/ijpsr-1000116
2. Miskovic BV. Unity of Physics. Int J of Theor and Math Physics. 2024; 2(1).
3. Miskovic BV. Curvilinear Cosmology. Int J Cosmol Astron Astrophysics. 2023; 5(2): 231-236. doi: 10.18689/ijcaa-1000143
4. Mišković B. A Brief Review of Special Relativity. Int J of Theor and Math Physics. 2019; 9(2): 36-40. doi: 10.5923/j.ijtmp-20190902.02
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Dear Akram Louise
Greetings and respect
I have reviewed your comments and ideas about Einstein's relativity. Therefore, I would like to share my scientific opinions with you. The biggest problem with theoretical physics is that Einstein's relativity is considered sacrosanct because it honors light.
Here is Einstein's strongest rebuttal of relativity, read it objectively:
I am at your service, dear teacher. I hope I can be useful. Thank you Abbas
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I am trying to clone a 1.3kb insert in a 3 kb vector. after double digestion of the vector, when I am checking on gel it is coming on desired length, but after ligation am getting almost same number of colonies in self (vector only) and test plates. after screening via colony PCR, none of the colonies had the insert. How to overcome this issue?
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If you're performing a self-ligation reaction and a control reaction (test) without any insert, and you're observing the same number of colonies in both, it suggests that the ligation reaction has occurred, but there hasn't been successful insertion of any additional DNA fragment (insert) into the vector during the ligation process.
Here are a few reasons why you might observe the same number of colonies in both reactions:
  1. Vector Self-Ligation: The vector itself may have undergone self-ligation, resulting in circularization of the vector without any insert. This can happen when the vector DNA molecules close upon themselves due to the ligation reaction, forming circular DNA molecules that are capable of transforming host cells and forming colonies.
  2. Incomplete Digestion: If you're using restriction enzymes to digest both the vector and the insert DNA, incomplete digestion of the vector or insert could occur, leading to self-ligation of partially digested fragments. This can result in colonies even in the absence of an insert.
  3. Background Colonies: Sometimes, bacterial cells can spontaneously generate colonies due to factors unrelated to the experimental manipulation. These background colonies can contribute to the observed colony count in both the self-ligation and test reactions.
  4. Contamination: Contamination with DNA fragments from previous reactions or from the environment can also lead to the formation of colonies.
To troubleshoot and confirm whether the ligation reaction was successful but without insert, you can:
  • Perform colony PCR using primers that anneal to sequences flanking the insertion site in your vector. If no insert was successfully ligated, you will amplify the empty vector sequence.
  • Sequence a few colonies to verify if they contain the expected sequence of the vector without any insert.
If you confirm that the self-ligation reaction occurred but no insert was successfully ligated, you may need to optimize your ligation conditions, ensure complete digestion of the vector and insert, and carefully monitor for contamination to improve the efficiency of your ligation reactions.
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Hello, everyone
Do you know some techniques to improve the efficiency of reprogramming if I use a kit (cytotune-ips 2.0 sendai vector) expired in July 2021?
Thank you for your answers!
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You're welcome. One last thing, I would go for 5:5:3 for 100.000 at one time (assuming you have sufficient primary somatic cells to try again), and check for the abundance of each vectors at day 3 post-transduction by RT-PCR on the agarose gel. If there is suspiciously low yield in any one of the vectors (which happens to be the case as we experienced significant decrease in KOS vector only, and increased it's individual MOI for the following reprogramming), try increasing its MOI in the next round!
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Hello everyone,
I am planning to do a cloning experiment. Can anyone suggest what is the minimum amount of insert DNA and vector DNA required for a 1:7 ligation reaction ? The size of my insert DNA is 673bp And that of the vector is 5.9Kbp.
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Didier Poncet Thank you so much for the valuable suggestion. It helped me to make an accurate work plan.
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Hello,
I am using movestay command for ESR model analysis, but I get an error message.
Can anyone help me please?
movestay (ln_wage = $x), select(union= $x msp) vce (robust)
The error message is:
Fitting initial values .....initial vector: copy option requires either a matrix or a list of numbers
r(198);
Thanks in advance for your kindness
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I assume 'map' is the instrumental variable, thus, use the following:
movestay (ln_wage = $x), select(union= msp) robust cluster(ID)
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Here's my issue--I've been troubleshooting cloning for the last 2-3 months but can't seem to get any colonies. I have been able to digest the plasmid (E. coli PLJR965 ~8600bp) at a reasonable concentration using BSMBI-v2. I want to ligate my vector with a ~25bp insert using T4 DNA ligase I believe the issue lies with the ligation reaction since my digested plasmid looks good on a gel. Here's what I've tried and hasn't worked to get my vector and inserts to ligate:
- PCR purification of digested plasmid before ligation
- Heat killing restriction enzymes for digested plasmid before ligation
- varying ratio of insert:vector (3:1, 10:1, 20:1)
- using new T4 DNA ligase buffer
- 30 min ligation at RT
- overnight ligation at RT
I've run controls with transforming just my undigested plasmid and that worked, so I know the problem likely isn't the transformation. I'm at a loss for what I can try next. Any suggestions appreciated!
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By "no colonies" do you mean literally no colonies grow after transformation or do you mean you get some colonies but they do not contain your desired insert?
If you have literally no colonies, I would try the following control:
Digest PLJR965 with BsmBI-V2 the way you would normally, heat inactivate it at 80°C for 20 minutes (do NOT purify the DNA as you will lose the small BsmBI fragment) then set up a ligation reaction as you normally would (except without your insert, since that's already present) and transform it.
The PLJR965 vector should just religate back to its original form with the original insert, and you will get a lot of colonies that contain the original vector. That would eliminate a lot of variables.
If you get no colonies or only a handful, something is wrong with either the ligation, your transformation procedure or your E. coli competent cells. Transformation/competency issues are still possible even if you get colonies with undigested plasmid, as supercoiled plasmid transformation is wildly more efficient than a plasmid that's been linearized and re-ligated.
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I have two different construct:
1. Insert 1 (~3kb) at XhoI and ApaI site in NCVB vector (9.7 kb).
2. Insert 2 (~1.7kb) at XhoI and ApaI site in in pENTR/D vector (2.6kb)
I want to replace Insert 1 with Insert 2. I have already tried restriction digestion followed by Quick ligase (NEB) or T4 ligase (Thermo). I even tried using CIP as I got a large number of self-colonies without it. However, upon CIP usage, no colonies were seen in either plates (self and test). Kindly suggest ways to go about this cloning. The final product that I want is
“Insert2 in NCVB vector at XhoI and ApaI sites”.
PS: I am using ultra-competent DH5a (CSHL protocol) for all my cloning.
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Mohammad Sadegh Taghizadeh That is a possibility which is unlikely but possible. Next time when I do it, I will use enzyme from different tube. Let us see if that solves the issue. Thanks!
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Hello, I am conducting a gibson assembly with 2 inserts and 1 vector.
vector size = 13kb
insert A size = 1.7kb
insert B size = 4.2kb
So, I tried gibson with 1:3:3 (vector:A:B) molar ratio.
Is this an optimized ratio?
I haven't tried it yet, but what about 1:7:3 (vector:A:B)?
Thank you.
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Designing the molar ratio for Gibson Assembly involves optimizing the concentrations of the vector and inserts to ensure efficient assembly without excess or insufficient DNA fragments. Here's a step-by-step approach to determine an optimized molar ratio:
1. **Calculate Molar Amounts**: First, convert the DNA amounts to molar amounts using their respective lengths and molar masses. The molar mass of double-stranded DNA can be approximated using the formula:
\[ \text{Molar mass} = \text{bp length} \times 660 \, \text{g/mol/bp} \]
Given:
- Vector: 13 kb
- Insert A: 1.7 kb
- Insert B: 4.2 kb
Calculate the molar amounts of each DNA fragment.
2. **Determine the Initial Molar Ratio**: Initially, you proposed a 1:3:3 molar ratio (vector:A:B). This ratio could work, but it might be suboptimal depending on various factors such as fragment concentrations and their efficiency of assembly.
3. **Considerations for Optimization**:
- Vector concentration: Since the vector is the backbone of your construct, you might want to ensure it's present in sufficient amounts to reduce the likelihood of empty vectors.
- Insert concentrations: Inserts should be present in excess to increase the likelihood of successful incorporation into the vector.
- Efficiency of assembly: The efficiency of Gibson Assembly might vary depending on the specific DNA fragments, their lengths, and the enzyme mix used. You may need to adjust the ratios based on empirical data from your lab or literature.
4. **Empirical Testing**: If you're uncertain about the optimal ratio, you can perform empirical testing by trying different ratios and assessing the efficiency of assembly through methods like gel electrophoresis or sequencing.
5. **Optimization**: Based on the results of empirical testing, refine your molar ratios to achieve the desired assembly efficiency. You may need to iterate this process until you find the optimal ratio for your specific experiment.
Regarding your proposed 1:7:3 molar ratio (vector:A:B), it's worth testing empirically to see if it improves assembly efficiency compared to the initial ratio. It's within the realm of possibility, but empirical validation is crucial.
In summary, while a 1:3:3 molar ratio could work, empirical testing is necessary to optimize the ratio for your specific Gibson Assembly reaction. Consider factors such as vector backbone stability, insert concentrations, and efficiency of assembly to determine the most suitable ratio.
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I'm assembling one PCR fragment (4.2 kb) with my vector, pECFP (4.8 kb), and transforming them into NEB 5-alpha Competent E. coli cells. Both the fragment and the vector were purified using the gel extraction method. I have followed the instructions of the kit, trying different ratios of vector to fragment (1:1, 1:2, and 1:5) and allowing the reaction to proceed for 60 minutes or more, although there is only one fragment.
For transformation, I used 2 μl and 4 μl with 50 μl of NEB 5-alpha Competent E. coli cells for a heat transformation and then streaked the transformants on Kao plates (100 μg/μl). However, most of the time, I observe no colonies growing the next day. On the rare occasions when colonies do appear (only 7), they all contain the vector.
My next step was running 5 μl of the Gibson assembly product on an agarose gel to confirm the presence of the expected band (8.8 kb), and indeed, it was present. Despite trying various conditions, I consistently obtained a faint band, insufficient for successful colony formation.
Do you have any ideas on how I can improve my assembly and obtain the desired product? I would be very grateful, as I have exhausted my current strategies.
Thank you very much :)
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How about using PCR to incorporate your insert into the plasmid? Something like here:
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I am planning to do Insitu-hybridisation. I have done the cloning finally . I cloned the PCR product in pGEMT easy vector . after doing the miniprep. I did the restriction digestion with sspI.
size of insert is 500 bp,
pGEMT easy vector- 3015
avaII cuts in insert at 11 positions and in vector at 1533,1755.
after running the gel I got the gel bands at 2000,1256,222 . and 1694,1562,222
which ORIENTATION I should consider for probe preparation.? how to do the linearisation? and How to select the T7 or SP6 polymerase for invitro transcription
Thanks
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Since I do not have a map of the construct I can not tell you which is which.
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I need something like the image given below however with greater number of words and their associated works
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I understand that you would like to visualize the relationships between a set of words, such as the example you provided with greater number of words and their associations.
To create a graph visualization of the relationships between words based on their word vectors, you can use the following steps:
Generate the word vectors using a pre-trained Word2Vec model, such as the one provided by Google News.
Calculate the similarity between each pair of word vectors using the cosine similarity measure.
Select the top-K similarities for each word and construct a graph where each word is a node, and the edges represent the similarity relationships.
Use a tool like NetworkX to visualize the graph using a force-directed layout.
Here's an example Python code that demonstrates this approach:
python code:
import numpy as np
import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import nltk
# Load the pre-trained Word2Vec model
model = gensim.models.KeyedVectors.load_word2vec_format("path/to/GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin.gz", binary=True)
# List of words to find similar words
words = ['computer', 'phone', 'table', 'alice', 'wonderland', 'king', 'queen', 'uncle', 'aunt', 'woman', 'man', 'researchgate', 'profile']
# Get the word vectors
vectors = [model.wv[word] for word in words]
# Compute the pairwise cosine similarity between the word vectors
pairwise_similarity = [1 - model.wv.cosine_similarities(vectors[i], vectors[j]) for i in range(len(words)) for j in range(i, len(words))]
# Find the top-K similar words for each word
K = 5 # number of top similar words to find
most_similar = [model.wv.most_similar(words[i], topn=K) for i in range(len(words))]
# Construct the graph
G = nx.Graph()
G.add_nodes_from(words)
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Hello, I am trying to implement some boundary conditions in my model to simulate displacement currents "J" due to migration in an electric field.
According to the literature, I have to implement the following transport of charge carriers boundary conditions ( PLEASE SEE ATTACHED SCREENSHOT)
For example, for "p+", if the electric field multiplied by the normal vector is less than zero, the flux entering the solid should be zero. Otherwise, the flux should be nJ, where n is the outward normal vector from the liquid side, and J is the current flux given by upE, where u is the mobility, p is the charge density, and E is the electric field vector. I have been trying to implement this on the interface of the solid without success for at least 4 months. If anyone knows how to tackle this, it would be much appreciated
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To implement this in a simulation (assuming you are using finite element analysis or another similar numerical method), you would generally need to :
-Define the interface between the solid and liquid
-Calculate the normal vector n at every point on the interface
-For each time step or iteration, calculate the electric field E at the interface
- Implement a conditional statement in your code that checks the sign of n.E at each point on the interface and applies the appropriate boundary condition for the flux. Danny Guana
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I have atomic coordinates and the structure is cubic cell with lattice parameter 10.001 Angestrum. How could I prepare the cell vectors to visualize in Vesta? Thanks.
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Kübik merkezli olduğu için bir tanesi merkez atom diğerleri onun etrafında kübik şekilde dizilir. (10 küpü +1).örgü atom modeli şeklinde dizilerek sürekli kübik yapı oluşturur. En son atom merkezi atom seçilebilir, bağımsız ve serbest hareket edebilir.
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I have inserted crispr vector in BL21 competent cell with ampicillin resistance and after induction with IPTG for protein ...no cas protein band was obtained using SDS page.. not even near to its size both in the supernantant as well as in the pellet... Can anyone help me.. the vector I ordered contains 6x his tag... But no protein after NI Nta agarose...
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Thank you for your time and consideration
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I ask a physical interpretation of the relationship between states of a quantum system introduced, in analogy with the causal relationship between events in Minkowski space-time by means of the formula xRy if and only if < x-y/ T( x-y)> > or = 0. Here x, y are vectors of a Hilbert space and T is a Hermitian operator applied in it. In the original relation x,y are Minkowski space-time four- vectors and T is the metric tensor diag ( 1,-1,-1--1). The relation is equivalent to the inequality <T>(x) + <T>(y) > or= 2 Re (<x/ T(y)>) where the first member is the sum of the mean values of the operator T in the states x and y respectively. ( Gennaro Franco, Giuseppe Marino, Possible causal relationship extensions and properties of related causal isomorphisms, Linear and nonlinear analysis, january 2020)
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The relationship described here is not a relationship between the states of a quantum system. In fact, if it were, the implication should hold: given the vectors x, y in a Hilbert space on the complex field, if <x-y/ A ( x-y)> >or= 0 then for every pair a,b of complex numbers it should result < ax-by/ A (ax-by)> >or=0. This is because the states of a quantum system are defined up to arbitrary complex constants. In fact, the following counterexample applies: x= (1,0); y= (0,1); a=1, b=5; A = diag (2,-1). The relation introduced above is therefore only a reflective and symmetric (non-transitive) binary relation between the vectors of a Hilbert space (real or complex).
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I digested my cas9 vector by adding 5ug of vector, 3ul of NEB 2.1 buffer, 3ul of BbsI enzyme and completed to 30ul with ultra-pure H2O.
I incubated overnight at 37C and added 1 ul of CIAP incubated for 10 min at 37C.
I ran my digested vector on an agarose gel and there is no visible band.
Although I can see a band for the intact cas9 vector, I don't for the digested one.
I had already made this digestion and I could see a band before, now it disappeared and I tried to make some new digested vector and there is no visible band as well.
I don't understand what is happening, if anyone has any idea.
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did You not see any band before the gel extraction? Or after the gel extraction? That will
tel you if the problem is the digestion or the gel extraction step.
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I am trying to clone 2 genes from bacillus subtilis within a triple strong promoter ( amyQ, amyL,amyE) in E.coli ( both EPI400 and JM109 )with PUC57 and pgD1662 vectors, but I failed for several attempts. as no colony which including my construction survive. I want to ask if the triple promoter is leaky in E.coli and is there a problem with triple strong promoter? as its constitutive? (like changing the E.coli metabolism because of my genes expression?) or the construction ,includes triple promoter and 2 bacillus genes, is not stable in E.coli?
or do I need to change my E.coli strain? do you have any idea of how can I clone my full construction in E.coli? I did not find the problem yet. does anyone has the same experience in this area?
regards
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Thanks for your reply Dr Benedikt, I cloned my genes with others commercial promoter in E.coli and it was succesful, but when I assemble them with my triple promoter the bacteria does not survive, so I guess there is problem with my promoter, although it is a bacillus promoter but I guess it make problems in E.coli when I clone my whole fragment on it.
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I am trying molecular cloning of vector 5.717 kb with 3.792 kb of the gene with a single digestion. However, I am giving phosphatase treatment, but I am still getting a self-ligated vector after transformation. What could be the possible reason for it?
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this is a summary of what i got by searching
Phosphatase treatment is commonly used in molecular cloning to prevent self-ligation of vector DNA. However, in your case, it seems that self-ligation is still occurring despite the treatment. Let’s explore the possible reasons for this:
  1. Incomplete Dephosphorylation: Alkaline phosphatase removes the 5’-phosphate group from the DNA ends. This dephosphorylation step is crucial because DNA ligase requires a terminal 5’-phosphate for its action. If the dephosphorylation is incomplete, some 5’-phosphates may remain, allowing self-ligation to occur12.
  2. Insufficient Phosphatase Treatment: Ensure that you perform an adequate phosphatase treatment. Follow the recommended protocol and incubation times. If the treatment is too brief or at a suboptimal temperature, residual 5’-phosphates may persist3.
  3. Vector Concentration: High vector concentration can lead to self-ligation. Dilute the vector before ligation to reduce the chances of intramolecular ligation.
  4. Annealing of Vector Ends: Even with dephosphorylation, if the vector ends anneal (base pair with each other), self-ligation can occur. Ensure that the vector ends are not complementary and can’t hybridize.
  5. Contaminants: Check for contaminants in your reaction mix. Trace amounts of nucleotides or other molecules can interfere with the ligation process.
  6. Ligation Conditions: Optimize the ligation conditions (buffer, temperature, and ligase concentration). Sometimes adjusting these parameters can improve ligation efficiency.
  7. Negative Control: Perform a negative control without the insert (gene). If self-ligation still occurs, it indicates an issue with the vector itself.
Remember that troubleshooting molecular cloning can be intricate. Double-check your experimental steps, and consider repeating the experiment with slight modifications. If the problem persists, consult colleagues or seek expert advice. Happy cloning! 🧬🔬
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I am looking for exact copy number of pET28a plasmid. A citation would be great. Literature search only shows that it is low copy vector, but I haven't found any papers that mention the exact copy number or even an estimate.
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I believe that pET28 is based on the pBR322 backbone and that plasmid has a copy number of around 20 per cell. The precise number will vary by strain and growth conditions though.
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Hello!
Recently, I ordered an FOLH1 ORF, which came inserted into the pUC-57 mini vector. Additionally, I requested BamHI and XbaI restriction sites to be included at each end of the ORF. When I performed the digestion of the plasmid, I observed that the single digestions with BamHI and XbaI linearized the plasmid as expected. However, when I performed the double digestion, I noticed two bands corresponding to the pUC vector and the FOLH1 ORF, as anticipated. Surprisingly, there was an additional band below them that I did not expect. What does this additional band signify? Could it be contamination, or is there a problem with the digestion process?
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some enzyme can have "star" activity where they cut to other stites than the regular one.
It can happen in specific conditions (for example to much glycerol in the reaction mix) or if the digesion is too long.
What king of enzyme are you using ? High fidelity from NEB ? and the buffer ?
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Is it a sickness that so many papers present 3D streamlines via commercial Anasys Fluent/CFD-Post/Tecplot?
  • Tecplot: Surface streamtraces or streamlines are confined to the surface on which they are placed.
  • Tecplot: A streamtrace is the path traced by a massless particle placed at an arbitrary location in a steady-state vector field. Streamtraces may be used to illustrate the nature of the vector field flow in a particular region of the plot.
  • Fluent: Pathlines are used to visualize the flow of massless particles in the problem domain.
  • CFD-Post: A streamline is the path that a particle of zero mass would take through the fluid domain.
In fact, these are representations of pathline.
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I realdy did not undestand the question... but for whom read this after: some possibilies to post processing.
Tecplot are able to generate streamlines in 1, 2 or 3D velocity fields, all it will depends uopn from them are released. You can choose... there are at least fivr option do it. Under Analuzee TAB there is an option to generate particle paths amd streaklines.
On both you can inform the particle, radius, mass, initial velocity, drag coeficient and gravity acceleration modulus and direction.
For Particle path, if the particles have no mass, no gravity and drag are null, the result it will be the same as streamlines (they are generates as a MESH, you need turnon mesh viwe to see them) - if you have a unsteady flow ( changes on stremlines), I think the tecplot will calculate the trajectories from initial to end time. And Streakilines are transient in this conception, and the result are the same for particle paths but you can animate them! It is a lagrangeam post processing with one way coupling.
All them work from any dimension 2or 3D, steady or unsteady
CFD post, works for 3D always, even a 2D case is loaded - CFD Post was CFX Post in the past, and ANSYS CFX is alway 3D. There is some translation from FLUENT data do CDF-post, and a slim 3D geometry is created from 2D Fluent DATA. But you have a real 3D case genetare surface or volumetric Streamlines from where you want a plane, from point, lines, or any geometry entity you have created.
Particles trajectories are load as a other data file - Fluent and CFX generate this files and they need to be loaded after the case. This avoid crashes for a large numer of particles.
Oh, and there is ENSIGHT (CEI now ANSYS) - there is the same Tecplot approach.
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If we have to complement a vir gene in the Agrobacterium mutant, is it necessary to complement the vir gene promoter too?
I am planning to use pBBR1MCS-5 vector which has Lac/lac, T3, T7 promoters, are any of these promoters sufficient for my vir genes to be expressed in Agrobacterium mutant?.
Thank you in advance
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Thank you Professor, I will go ahead with lac promoter as the regulation is not very critical and we just want to see the qualitative functional complementation. Thank you for your time. Regards.
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Some context:
I'm trying to generate a clone possessing a gram positive phage endolysin gene in E. coli DH5alpha.
I'm using the pet28 vector and initially tried to clone/transform directly into both JM109(DE3) and pLysS with no success.
I can confirm the ligations are working with amplification of the cloning site.
I have even tried fusing the gene to GFP, constructing the pet28_GFP vector first and once I try adding this endolysin I fail to get clones.
Can a gene lead to complete plasmid instability in cloning strains that doesn't possess T7 RNAP which T7 vector systems rely on for expression? I am aware of T7 lysozyme repressing T7 RNAP and maybe there is a possible of this gene performing a similar role
I'm aware the protein is toxic but surely one should be able to generate a library to see it all go wrong in expression attempts.
Could my problems lie in DNA secondary structures effecting plasmid stability (replication)? any insights would be great.
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I think the issue is that if you have a signal sequence on the protein then it is going to be secreted to the E. coli periplasm where it will have access to the peptidoglycan resulting in lysis. But if the protein was retained in the cytoplasm then there is no target for the endolysin to act on.
If you use the example of phage lambda, expressing the R endolysin is not toxic to the cell except if co-expressed with the holin S protein that disrupts the membrane and releases the endolysin to the periplasm.
So perhaps if you expressed your protein without the signal sequence then you could get stable protein in the cytoplasm that is not toxic.
But it may also work well enough using a more tightly regulated system like araBAD. It is my experience that pET plasmids are not tightly regulated although pLysS does help. Adding glucose during growth might also help.
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<<The job is described in the followign code, where the gs.chk file is the result of a successful opt + freq calculation.>>
--link1--
%OldChk=8PhOPc_DMF_gs.chk
%Chk=8PhOPc_DMF_ex.chk
# td=(singlets,nstates=12) CAM-B3LYP TZVP Geom=check guess=read
scrf=(solvent=n,n-dimethylformamide) Int=(Ultrafine)
8-PhOPc TD 12 singly excited states: CAM-B3LYP/TZVP
0 1
<<This is the last few lines of output.>>
1 vectors produced by pass997 Test12= 5.85D-13 1.00D-09 XBig12= 5.26D-15 1.08D-09.
1 vectors produced by pass998 Test12= 5.85D-13 1.00D-09 XBig12= 5.35D-15 1.18D-09.
1 vectors produced by pass999 Test12= 5.85D-13 1.00D-09 XBig12= 5.23D-15 1.08D-09.
1 vectors produced by pass*** Test12= 5.85D-13 1.00D-09 XBig12= 5.29D-15 1.14D-09.
CPHF failed to converge in LinEq2.
Error termination via Lnk1e in /opt/apps/gaussian/16.c.01/g16/l1002.exe at Thu Jan 25 22:29:53 2024.
Job cpu time: 45 days 22 hours 11 minutes 56.9 seconds.
Elapsed time: 1 days 3 hours 47 minutes 34.0 seconds.
File lengths (MBytes): RWF= 224288 Int= 0 D2E= 0 Chk= 337 Scr= 1
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This is a known problem in gaussian, that originates from gaussian using two different algorithms for frequency calculations . If the system is too large, gaussian switches to the second algorithm, which is superslow (since it uses disk memory instead of RAM) and often fails.
The solution is to add the following keyword to the input line:
Int=Acc2E=11
which always worked for me (DFT freq for systems of ~100 atoms).
Some people reported also that adding instead:
CPHF(MaxInv=10000)
also solves the problem, though I never used it.
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I am trying to express a fusion gene using pet28a vector initially did a fusion by using SOE PCR method then RE digested the fused gene by using bam nd xho enzymes and ligated with pet28a vector and did a transformation to Top10 cells now where I am not getting the colonies I repeated the same work several times with positive control working fine and all my enzymes are working fine please anyone help me with this problem
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Hello Abir thankyou for your response
I did insilico cloning have a feeling might be a problem with ligation so I am changing the enzyme and gonna try again with 16C overnight incubation and will come back to you
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Hello,
I tried to clone 3 insert into plasmid pUC18. I used Takara infusion cloning with this reaction:
1 μl 5X In-Fusion HD Enzyme Premix
0.59 μl Linearized vector (2667bp, DNA mass=44.35 ng, conc=179.1 ng/ul)
0.85 μl Purified PCR fragment I (3740 bp, DNA mass=62.19 ng, conc=175.4 ng/ul)
0.77 μl Purified PCR fragment II (482 bp, DNA mass=16.03 ng, conc=99.2 ng/ul)
1.84 μl Purified PCR fragment III (1694 bp, DNA mass=28.17 ng, conc=36.6 ng/ul)
In total I have 5ul reaction volume and do the infusion reaction for 20 minutes in 50 degree C.
I used NEB calculator to get my DNA mass. Is my calculation correct. I search in takara website they have their own calculator to count the DNA mass. Please give me suggestion is there something wrong with my method? I have been failed working with this clone for 3 months.
Thanks
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Looking at your problem I feel it may be problem with your inserts I think u should recheck your primers and did u digest your vector and confirmed it if yes how did you confirm it?
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Hi,
I'm facing a recurent problem with the cloning of a given cDNA. Everytime I'm doing the cloning I end up with a mix of big and small colonies on the insert+vector plate while getting only few big ones on the vector alone plate. The small ones are clearly not satellites, I know how do they look. I picked some of the small one but they are generally not growing in liquid. Tried to grow plates at 30°C no changes. Ran my ligation on gels and they look very efficient. I clearly don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Thanks
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Can you please tell me how much of transformed cells you are spreading onto the plate
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I am using a Tet on system to overexpress a LncRNA in mouse ES cells, based on a piggybac vector (pXlone). I performed transient and stable experiments. In both cases, the LncRNA is expressed even without adding dox in the culture medium. Can someone help me on this ?
Thank you very much.
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It could be TET or DOX in the serum, FBS. There are culture serum controlled for the presence ot this antibiotics. https://www.thermofisher.com/ru/ru/home/life-science/cell-culture/mammalian-cell-culture/fbs/specialty-serum/tet-system-approved-fbs.html
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Vector 1 (Insert 1, Insert 2, Insert a ) and Vector 2 ( Insert 1, Insert 2, Insert b) contain three inserts in which only the Insert a and b are different. These two vectors are constructed by Gibson assembly and transformed into E.coli DH5A cells. Positive clones are obtained based on antibiotic resistance. Plasmid was isolated for further cloning. While PCR check, Insert 1 &2 of vector 1 are amplified and visualised as a bright band, whereas when the same primers were used for amplification of Insert 1 and 2 in vector 1, it is lighter. The template concentration of vector 1 was also varied and checked.
Apart from primers specific to inserts 1 and 2, primer was designed for upstream and downstream regions of inserts. In that case, I am getting proper amplification for both vectors.
What could be the reason for getting different intense bands when the same primers are used for the amplification of the same inserts in different vectors?
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Have you factored in differences in the size of the vectors? If one is bigger than the other you will be loading your PCR reaction with a lower copy number which will affect the band intensity.
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Hi everyone.
I put a ligation reaction containing a 1 vector (~8 kb) and 2 inserts ( 434 and 537 bp) under bellow condition:
vector: 3' xbaI....... AgeI 5'
insert1: 3' xbaI ..... EcoRV 5'
insert2: 3' EcoRV ......AgeI 5'
ratio vector:insert= 1:7 (ratio: 1 vector+ 7 insert 1+ 7 insert 2)
overnight, 4.C
I have some colons but it seems that only one insert exist in the vector! how is it possible ?!
does anyone any suggession to can have the right transformed colons?
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When performing a ligation reaction with one vector and two inserts, there are a few key considerations to increase the likelihood of successful ligation. Here are some recommendations:
1. Vector and Inserts Preparation: Ensure that the vector and inserts have been properly prepared and purified. This includes digesting the vector and inserts with the appropriate restriction enzymes, dephosphorylating the vector (if necessary) to prevent self-ligation, and purifying the DNA fragments from the digestion reaction using a DNA purification kit.
2. Insert Ratio Optimization: Determine the optimal molar ratio of vector to inserts. This ratio can vary depending on the specific experiment, but a standard recommendation is to use a two-fold molar excess of the vector compared to each insert. Adjust the amount of DNA accordingly to achieve the desired ratio.
3. Vector Control: Include a vector-only control in the ligation reaction. This control helps to identify any background self-ligation of the vector or potential contamination of the components.
4. Extended Incubation: Allow for a longer incubation time during ligation. Incubating the ligation reaction overnight at a lower temperature (such as 4°C) can improve the chances of successful ligation by giving the enzymes more time to bind DNA ends and create ligated products.
5. Optimal DNA Ligase Concentration: Determine and optimize the concentration of DNA ligase enzyme in the ligation reaction. It is recommended to follow the manufacturer's instructions or perform preliminary experiments to find the appropriate concentration that promotes efficient ligation without causing excess background ligation.
6. Ligation Enhancers: Consider using ligation enhancers, such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), to increase ligation efficiency. These additives can enhance DNA hybridization and enzyme activity, thus improving the likelihood of successful ligation.
7. Transformation and Selection: Transform the ligation reaction into competent host cells using an appropriate method (e.g., heat shock for bacterial cells). Following transformation, select transformed cells using selective media containing the appropriate antibiotic resistance marker present in the vector.
8. Verify and Validate: Perform colony screening, diagnostic PCR, or DNA sequencing to verify that the desired ligation product has been successfully obtained. This step is crucial to ensure that the correct inserts have been ligated into the vector.
By following these recommendations and optimizing the key parameters, you can increase the chances of obtaining successful ligation with one vector and two inserts. It is always advisable to consult relevant scientific literature or seek guidance from experienced researchers in your specific area of study to further refine your ligation strategy.
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Also, does anyone have an idea how big your insert can be in a 6 kb vector when you use the gibson assembly as the cloning method to create a midigen and where you only design a forward primer at the beginning and a reverse primer at the end of your insert?
I have now developed a midigen with an insert of 4 kb (NF1 gene exon 20 to 24 with introns) in a pSPL3 vector of 6 kb, so together that is 10 kb. I did this using the Gibson Assembly cloning method. I designed a forward primer in intron 19 and the reverse primer in intron 24. For sequencing, I designed new primers to divide the 4 kb piece into pieces.
I am trying to develop midigene to study larger splicing effects with the mini/midigen exon-trap assay.
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Minigenes can also refer to a truncated but still functional gene that usually has the minimal promoter, absent or reduced introns and a fragment of the CDS like the Drosophila mini-white gene.
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Hi, I am attempting to co-express GFP using a bicistronic vector that contains the T2A peptide.
(CD8 alpha signal peptide - GOI - T2A - GFP)
I am concerned that, since I am using the CD8a signal peptide, which directs the expressed protein to the membrane, GFP may also be directed to the membrane, making GFP expression undetectable in the cells.
Will GFP be localized in the cytosol if I use the vector I described above?
I look forward to your kind reply.
Thank you, and I hope everything goes well for whoever reads this.
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interresting question; T2A is a stop and restart translation; as synthesis of secreted protein are made with ribosome attached to the membrane and to a pore to translocate the secreted protein for me there is some chance that your GFP is going to end in the reticulum ...
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I am using pPICZalfa vector with gene length 1.1 Kb. Currently I am trying for In-vitro multicopy generation (Bgl II - BamHI), but the transformation efficiency in DH5alfa is decreasing as my construct size is increasing. Should I try PTVA method?
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Exactly! The plasmid size is increasing at every ligation step.
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I am using a pET28B vector to clone my 2.1kb insert digested with BamH1 (fwd) and Xho1 (rev) restriction enzymes. I'm using over 1ug of DNA for restriction digestion, kept at 37°C for over 3 hours. For cohesive end ligation, I'm using Promega T4 ligase, and keeping the setup (3:1, 5:1 and 7:1; insert: vector) for 16 hours before transforming in Dh5alpha competent cells followed by plating on Kan plates. I've been doing this for quite sometime now. But everytime, all I get are false colonies. I've tried to troubleshoot every single step but to no avail. My ligase is also new.
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Dear Aniket Banerjee i agree with several points from Mariana. The key points that can go wrong is that not both enzymes cut efficiently, the Ligase is not efficient, or (less likely) your transformation efficiency is low. When you say false colonies, are they the empty pET28B? The things to make sure are: A) is your vector cut by both enzymes? check that u are using a good buffer for both enzymes (see company webpages tools, e.g. Thermo double digest calculator), and add a bit more of the enzyme with less efficiency. You can make a control with no, 1, the other, and 2 enzymes and run on the gel together to double check that they both work. Cut and purify always from the gel. You can include dephosphorylation of the digested vector directly after digestion before running the gel to keep any remaining vector that is only cut by one enzyme from religating. B) is your insert cut well? Are you cutting out of a backbone and can see well that both ends are cut or are you digesting a PCR product? restriction sites close to the ends are less efficiently cut (eg. check here https://www.neb.com/en/tools-and-resources/usage-guidelines/cleavage-close-to-the-end-of-dna-fragments). Subcloning the PCR fragment first can help in that case. Also purify the digested insert via gel of course. For the Ligation, the concentrations should be verified by running an aliquot on gel (nanodrop especially low values are sometimes not so accurate). 2:1 or 3:1 is ok, more is not helpful i think. For Ligase u can also make a control with a singe enzyme digested not dephosphorylated vector. Finally, check that transformation efficiency is decent. Low efficiency makes it harder to get larger plasmids. Good luck.
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Hello!
I'm trying to see if anyone has a PDF of this paper, "Factors Influencing Lentiviral Vector Quality-Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Analysis of HIV-1 Vectors"
I would appreciate it if you can send it to me.
Thank you
She.
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Thank you Ulf Nobbmann
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1. My overexpression plasmid (empty vector) is 8200 bp. But it is showing 4000-5000 bp always in the agarose gel, which might be for the supercoiled conformation. But this large difference is acceptable?
2. The same plasmid after digestion ( EcoRI & BamHI) becomes 12000+ bp in the agarose gel. Shouldn't it be around 8000-8200 as it becomes linear after digestion? If it becomes 12000+bp which is too big, is this acceptable? and why it becomes bigger.
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If the plasmid is really 8kb then the supercoiled version runs much faster, I think around 4-5kb is probably ok. But don't make any serious conclusions from the supercoil size, you need to linearize or digest your plasmid to really know the size.
For your second question, do you see a linear band at 12kb or is the sum of the smaller bands? If you see a single band after digestion at 12kb then that is likely the actual size. If you are just adding up smaller bands and they add to 12kb then maybe you just have some incomplete digestion. Does EcoR1 and BamH1 release the insert?
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My colleague is trying to study the effects of a protein on pathogen inhibition in N. benthamiana. He is expressing it in either a pSITE vector or pCAMBIA1302 that had the GFP gene removed. They are both in GV3101 strain of agrobacteria. His protein is being expressed fine and he got interesting results. However, when he infiltrated just the vectors as controls, the pCAMBIA gave a similar response as his protein but the pSITE did not give any response. A response was not seen in the no infiltration or buffer only conditions. Has anyone else found that the vector backbone alone can alter plant response?
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Only suggestion I could give is to cut the pCAMBIA into sections and clone into pSITE to find the region that is causative.
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Time dilation has absurd predictions. So, it may be an illusion. Is it possible that this mistake has its roots far back in 1887, when Michelson did his famous tests? The interpretations of these tests assumed that the mirrors in the equipment define the vector sum of ether wind v and wave vector c. This was a reasoning based on particles, and the mirrors have relevance only in relation to c (but not to v), and the wave model is in conflict. So, time dilation appears to be an illusion, and the Lorentz transform not needed.
Einstein gave support to this idea by postulating that observers in different (but constant) motions all see the same light speed, but Einstein's idea is also absurd.
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The small effects in GPS clocks are found only in atomic clocks, and other clocks are useless. The fact that we have not searched for small errors does not mean that they do not exist. Mechanical clocks are useless in the GPS system. You think that something that you have not observed cannot exist. That is a very big mistake and lack of fantasy.
In a circular orbit the tangential speed is constant, and the radial ether wind is also constant and equal to the escape velocity. The escape velocity is the cause of gravity.
John-Erik
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Hi!
Has anyone worked with negative-sense RNA viruses? I need to express recombinant proteins using a vector, so it will be necessary to start with ssRNA(-) to obtain cDNA for selecting the gene of interest. Are there kits with RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to obtain the positive-sense strand (necessary for the following step with the reverse transcriptase), or do I need to isolate the enzyme in some way? Thank you.
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For reverse transcriptase is not important the type of matrix (sense or not sense). You can produce with random hexamer you copy DNA and then with PCR to receive PCR product for cloning.
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Actually I'm trying to express my protein using ppiczaplha series of vector in x-33. My transformation is successful as I'm getting two bands after amplification through aox1 primers from genomic DNA. I have tried different parameters for expression like different temperature(20-30), different methanol concentration, expression protocol for Mut+ as well as Muts, i got expression once after that result is not reproducible. I don't have protease-deficient SMD strains, but we have pichiapink strains that are protease deficient, so can i use this?
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Tomáš Hluska Sorry for replying so late,
I precipitated around 2ml of media and resuspended in 20ul of sample and ran it on sds. We don't have pGAPZ vector. And yes i tried intracellular expression as well but no expression was visible.
I have tried pPIC series vectors in X-33 and KM71H strain, pPINKalpha HC in Pichia pink strain 1 and 4.
I have tried different methanol concentrations (0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5%) different temperature (30,25,20) and buffered as well as unbuffered media.
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Hi, I just have been in fusion cloning.
I want to insert my GOI in pMIG II vector.
So, I amplified my GOI using PCR with 15bp overhang (PFU used), and linearized the pMIG II vector with EcoRI and XhoI.
(PCR fragment and linearized vector were cleaned up using gel elusion kit)
I used Stbl3 for transformation.
And I used in fusion molar ratio calculator to determine the DNA concentration of fragment (1728bp) and vector (6512bp).
But, I failed to get plasmid with my GOI. and I sequenced this failed plasmid and found that this plasmid matched the sequence of the intact pMIG II.
(E.coli did not grow in linearized vector only control)
How do I solve this problem?
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you can run gel with the wt plasmid and Restriction enzyme treated plasmid or linearized plasmid, the wt circular plasmid stay above the linearized one. so you can differentiate between ligated and unlighted plasmid.
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Hello everyone,
I save my FEM results as VTK files, these files include data such as Points, Variables values, mesh type etc.
I have been trying to get a vector graphic (like SVG) to display smooth and nice results.
I tried ParaView, but I think they do not support vector graphics in recent versions.
I also tried to write a Python code for this purpose using vtk and matplotlib libraries. It works almost fine, but when I want to plot the mesh too, there are problems.
I used Triangulation from matplotlib.tri, but it only supports triangles mesh, while my mesh type is 9-node quadrilaterals.
So, the question is, what is the best way to get SVG image of a VTK file?
Thanks,
Masoud
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Masoud Ahmadi You might be interested in http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/
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I generated Hela-KRAB-dCas9 stable cell line, and to validate dCas9 activity, I introduced two sgRNA expressing vectors driven by either hU6 or mU6 promoter. I found that the mU6 promoter driven vector did show any knock down effect, but the hU6 one did. I wonder if mU6 promotor is really inactive in Hela cell, and whether mU6 promoter can be active in some human cell lines. Any one has this information? So many thanks!!!
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Tom Goedert Yes. It works
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I would like to ask a question about constructing stable cell lines.
If someone has the whole genome sequencing results of their overexpression stable cell line that would be really helpful. That would give us a clear solid example of what going on during the fregment integration steps.
  1. I would like to ask, when using vector transfection to construct stable cell lines, is gene recombination inclined to randomly insert the entire part of the transfected vector into one random position (I mean a whole block integrated into the genome, the target gene and the resistance gene will be integrated near by as they were in plasmid). Or is it inclined to random integration, that is, the target fragment and the resistance gene are integrated in different spots? In addition, in the final cell line obtained, how many copies of the fragment are integrated into the genome? (Because the results we often get like, final seed 30 clones that can survive under puromycin, but only 3-5 contain the target fragment, which seems to answer this question, that is, random fragments of random integration are high probability events in this case.)
  2. Online information has reported that, due to the LTR sequences on the lentiviral vector, during gene recombination, the whole sequence between LTR can be integrated into a specific sequence position of the genome, could someone help me to double confirm this information?
  3. About the role of resistance genes, could we understand it in this way? 1). In the overexpression period (2-7 days after transfection), screen out the clones that have not been successfully transfected; 2). In the integrated period (2-14 days after transfection), screen out the clones that have not successfully integrated the resistance gene. 3). After the stable cell line is constructed, maintain the purity of the single-cell clone. Am I right? I suppose that if random fragments of random integration theory is right. Then I would not expect that all the puromycin-resistant cells all have my target gene overexpressed.
  4. I saw a product sells on the takara website which are linearized resistance markers used for co-transfection with other overexpression vectors. I thought that linear resistance markers would increase gene integration efficiency, then it may indirectly increase the probability of simultaneously integrating the interested fragment and the resistance gene in the same cell(may in different spots of genomic). Compared to those methods that transfect vectors contains resistance gene, above linearized resistance markers co-transfection methods would have more 'positive' cell clones to survive(have both interested gene and resistant marker) , then increasing the possibility of getting those clones.
  5. In those easy transfect cells, such as HEK293 or CHO-K1, the transfection efficiency can easily reach more than 95%, so can we understand it in this way? Compared to co-transfecting overexpression plasmid along with a linearized resistance marker, to a vector containing both resistance marker and target fragments, for a single cell, the possibility to get both interested gene and resistant marker is almost the same, right? 95%*95%=90.25%
Thank you for your reading, and please let me know if I did not make my idea clear. It would be really helpful if you answered my question.
Best,
Le
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1. Depends on what is in the plasmid you are using. If your plasmid is using some transposons then you can get almost random integration. The copy number will depend on if it is a jumping or replicating transposon. Viral vector derived plasmids tend to integrate into specific regions (eg. Lentivirus derived ones) but can be multiple copy. If integrated using recombinases (like the CRE/Lox system) then insertion will be site specific and usually single copy depending on the number of landing sites and if the genome is diploid. Similarly plasmids that integrate by homologous recombination will have 1-2 copies. The part of the plasmid integrated is usually a specific cassette flanked by regions used for integration (eg. homology arms, recombination sites or ITRs). Most plasmids try to avoid backbone integration into the host genome as that is prone to gene silencing by methylation.
2. You are correct everything between the LTRs is integrated. You will find most plasmids of that variety have a cassette with your GOI and the selection marker that is flanked by the LTRs with the replication machinery on a separate helper plasmid.
3. Your GOI and selection marker should be integrated together. After transfection treat each clone as a separate cell line and maintain selection for a least a month. It is good to periodically screen for the marker as that will eliminate any clones that have had the integrated cassette silenced.
4. I would have to look the maps of those specific vectors.
5. Yes the probabilities are combinatorial to an extent though with enough different construct being co-transfected there would eventually be signs of toxicity.
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Aedes mosquito species, i.e. Aedes aegypti and albopictus, can act as a vector for both Flavi viruses (Dengue serotype 1-4, Zika virus, West Nile Virus etc.) and Alpha Viruses (Chikungunya virus). What is the mechanism behind this and is it possible for the Aedes mosquito to hold both Flavi and Alpha viruses at the same time?
Please share if you find any articles related to this. Thank you.
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I am looking for vectors for expression of bacteriocin, and from pET series I think that 19b fits the most, I am just having few questions. When I clone my insert in NdeI and XhoI, i will have residual H in N-terminus, which I don't want. How can i avoid this?
Also, can i put stop codon at the end of my insert, will that be sufficient, or should i add more stop codons?
I want my protein to be without residual (from vector) amino acids on N and C termini.
I am open for all suggestions regarding the choice of vector, since i can't get expression in pQE and pMAL vector using M15 and ER2523 E. coli expression cells.
In attachment is pET-19b from Genscript.
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Did you notice any toxicity when you had clones in pQE or pMAL, such as slowing down of growth after adding inducer?
In addition to trying to create your pET clone, you might want to retransform your DNA from the pQE or pMAL clones into fresh cells and maintain them on glucose supplemented plates to reduce expression. Then screen them again and notice if there is some toxicity. It could be that the clones are somewhat toxic so you are constantly getting mutants that no longer express. Therefore it might be worth rescreening from your original plasmid stock.
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In fuzzy set theory, while handling multi-attribute decision making problems, there are few conditions imposed on weight vectors (weight vector for attributes, for experts), that each component of these vectors must be greater than zero, taken from [0,1], and the sum of their components must be equal to one.
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When the sum of weights is equal to 1 in fuzzy set-based MCDM, it is typically associated with normalization. Normalization ensures that the weights are scaled to a common scale, making them comparable and facilitating their interpretation in the decision-making process. Normalization is particularly important when dealing with multiple criteria that may have different units or scales.
Here's a brief explanation of why the sum of weights is often normalized to 1:
  1. Consistency: Normalizing the weights ensures that the decision-maker's preferences are consistent and do not depend on the scale used for expressing those preferences. It makes the decision process more robust and less sensitive to changes in the measurement units of the criteria.
  2. Interpretability: Normalized weights are easier to interpret. A weight of 0.2 for a criterion means that the decision-maker considers that criterion to be 20% important relative to the other criteria. This common scale aids in communicating and understanding the decision-maker's preferences.
  3. Comparability: Normalization allows for a fair comparison of weights across different decision-making scenarios. Without normalization, weights might be on different scales, making it challenging to compare their relative importance in different decision contexts.
In fuzzy set-based MCDM, fuzzy numbers or linguistic terms may be used to represent uncertainties and imprecise information associated with the decision-making process. The normalization of weights is done while considering these uncertainties to provide a more comprehensive representation of the decision-maker's preferences.
It's worth noting that there are various methods for determining these weights, and the choice of method may depend on the specific characteristics of the decision problem and the preferences of the decision-maker.
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I require the empty vector of this plasmid: https://www.addgene.org/40346/
The ends have been destroyed:
  • 5′ cloning site XhoI/SalI (destroyed during cloning)
  • 3′ cloning site SalI/XhoI (destroyed during cloning)
How do you suggest to do this?
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You will need to cut the MCS out of another plasmid and insert it into your digested plasmid. EcoRV looks good for the one position but you might have to introduce a second cutting site using mutagenic PCR to remove the insert.
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Hello everyone,
Is there anyone who has cloned with pAcGP67A secretion vector with GP67A signal peptide.
I tried to clone with insert 1.2kb in the vector, MCS: BamHI and NotI. C-term Thrombin and His-tagged was engineered.
I keep getting a stop codon after the signal sequence before the BamHI then my insert at the N-terminal.
I simulate with Snapgene but i keep getting inframe with GP67A and a stop codon appears .
Please i need a help.
Thank you
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You could try mutagenic PCR to remove the stop codon? Else use recombineering or another assembly method to avoid the stop codon.
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human Topoisomerase is a HOMODIMER Protein (AA). Now i want to mutate one chain to produce a heterodimer version (AA*). but there are chances of production of three products (AA, AA*, A*A*). So the question is that how i should place the two Genese wild type (A) and mutant (A*) in E coli expression system that only one required form AA* is produced?
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So you can easily express the two different proteins in the same cell, either by using 2 plasmids, or by by using 2 expression cassettes on the same plasmid, or by creating an operon with both copies of the gene.
HOWEVER you can not make it so that only the AA* is made, you are going to get a mixture of AA, AA* and A*A*.
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What is the difference between vector pET (26,21, a,,b,+.........?
What are the changes made in the PET vector (for different pET)?
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The difference between the a, b, c version of different pET vectors is the reading frame, there is +1 and +2 nt difference between the start codon and downstream cloning sites where you have some N-terminal leader or tag. The difference between the various pETs (pET3 vs pET21 vs pET26 etc) have to do with the cloning sites, signal sequences, various tags, protease sites etc. While fundamentally similar each is designed to a different purpose.
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In B-spline interpolation, how control points and knot vector influences on trajectory optimization for robot path planning?
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That is a vast topic (especially since the term 'robot' has thousands of variations), all with lots of dependencies. What references have you read, as a starting point?
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Hi, please i need a help. Attached is my Agarose gel containing ligation reaction (pET28a) and VEGFA (insert).
After ligating for overnight at 16 degree and run gel with 10uL from the ligation reaction.
Here is what i got.
Lane 1: Uncut vector pET28a
Lane 2-3: VEGFA insert 1
Lane 4-5: VEGFA insert 2
What could that suppose to mean?
Thank you.
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Best wishes!
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I have been trying to digest a vector pXMCS for the last two months but no luck so far. I have been using NdeI and KpnI (Both of them were present on the plasmid map of the vector) as restriction enzymes and incubating the reaction at 37 degrees for 5 to 6 hours. I am using buffer 2.1 which is compatible with both enzymes. Even overnight digestion does not seem to work out. I also tried single enzyme digestion reactions for 5 to 6 hours and overnight (just to check which one of the enzymes is not working) but this is what I got (2nd picture). I would love to get some suggestions on the same. Thank you.
PICTURE 1: Lane 1: 1 kb plus ladder, Lane 2: uncut vector, Lane 3 and 4: Digestion reactions (with 1ug concentration vector each), Lane 5: Uncut vector, Lane 6: Digestion reaction (3ug vector)
PICTURE 2: Lane 1: 1 kb plus ladder, Lane 2: uncut vector, Lane 3: KpnI, Lane 4: NdeI
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@Robert Adolf Brinzer - Purchased it 2 years ago I think. Not too sure about the number of freeze thaw cycles. Yes, they were put back in the freezer immediately after use. Both enzymes seem to linearize the vector individually but I dont see the second band after digestion in the presence of both vectors.
@David Lepetit - i am expecting two bands. One around 3kb and the second band between 700bp to 1kb. The vector was isolated using a kit (gbiosciences)
I tried purifying it several times with a different kit as well but I am getting the same result. Should I try isolating the vector manually without the kit?
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I am using Gibson assembly method for insert my PCR product with the length of 3.6 KB into a vector, I excise the original vector to remove unwanted gene with specific restriction enzymes and use HIFI DNA ASSEMBLY for insertion PCR product into the vector, after assembly I used it for transformation finally miniprep, and for final approve of my work again use a enzyme that cut my plasmid exactly in the middle of the inserted gene, but the result on the gel is not satisfactory. what can I do?
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Thanks a lot.
Yes I run both of insert and digested vector on the gel.
Colony PCR is a good way to approve the assembly.
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My colleague has come up an idea of using two inserts to ligate into one vector at the same time, which is like : vector-SpeI-Insert A-BamHI-Insert B-NotI-vector
(Spel-Insert A-BamHI, BamHI-Insert B- Notl, Vector digested with Spel and Notl).
Then he transformed the system into E.coli and today the colonies showed up.
Unfortunately, the verification PCR only shows the band of Insert B fragment.
(vector is around 3kbp, Insert B is around 1.8kbp, Insert A is around 700kbp, the verification PCR's predicted size is around 2.5kbp containing the part of Inert A and B) We are confused about the result and I really wish to hear from your suggestions.
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if your DNA fragments are PCR products, combine your both fragments (Purified DNA) in a single tube and let them aneal, then insert into vector
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Are electric field vectors always perpendicular to equipotential lines why or why not and equipotential surfaces are not equidistant for a point charge?
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Dr Murtadha Shukur thank you for your contribution to the discussion
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My colleague has come up an idea of using two inserts to ligate into one vector at the same time, which is like : vector-SpeI-Insert A-BamHI-Insert B-NotI-vector
(Spel-Insert A-BamHI, BamHI-Insert B- Notl, Vector digested with Spel and Notl).
Then he transformed the system into E.coli and today the colonies showed up.
Unfortunately, the verification PCR only shows the band of Insert B fragment.
(vector is around 3kbp, Insert B is around 1.8kbp, Insert A is around 700kbp, the verification PCR's predicted size is around 2.5kbp containing the part of Inert A and B) We are confused about the result and I really wish to hear from your suggestions.
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Thank you so much for your reply.
We have realized that using restriction enzymes to invert two or more inverts have low efficiency so we are preparing to adopt Gibson assembly.
Thank you so much!!
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Is magnetic field always perpendicular to electric field and what are the electric and magnetic field vectors in electromagnetic waves?
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In an electromagnetic wave, the electric and magnetic fields are always perpendicular to each other and to the direction of propagation of the wave. This is a fundamental property of electromagnetic waves and is a consequence of Maxwell's equations.
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Electromagnetic wave electric and magnetic fields
The electric and magnetic fields in an electromagnetic wave are also in phase with each other, meaning that they reach their maximum and minimum values at the same time. This is also a consequence of Maxwell's equations.
The magnitude of the electric and magnetic fields in an electromagnetic wave are related to each other by the speed of light in a vacuum. The magnitude of the electric field is equal to the product of the magnitude of the magnetic field and the speed of light in a vacuum:
E = cB
where:
  • E is the magnitude of the electric field
  • B is the magnitude of the magnetic field
  • c is the speed of light in a vacuum
The electric and magnetic fields in an electromagnetic wave can be described by a set of equations called Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's equations are a set of four partial differential equations that describe the behavior of electric and magnetic fields.
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I downloaded the starlink precise ephemeris file from https://www.space-track.org/, the data of each time point includes position, velocity vector and coordinate data. May I ask which coordinate system the vector is in, and what is the meaning of the 21 covariance value
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Hello, the 21 values in the covariance corresponds to the lower diagonal of the covariance matrix (So you can split it in 6)
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I'm looking for the reference frame of the values now.
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Hi dear researchers
I need to calculate the insert mass for the ligation reaction, the vector length is 7800bp and the insert length is 83bp, would you please guide me what is the correct and suitable insert/vector ratio? my insert is very small in comparison to vector
I used 10;1 , but I did not obtain my results.
I appreciate you for taking the time.
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When you talk about ratio, are you referring to mass (ng's) or to molarity (nm)? What is relevant is the molarity or actually number of molecules. So if you added 10ng each of vector and insert, you would have a ratio of molecules that is about 1:100 (vector:insert because they are nearly 100-fold difference in size). Ideally you would want a molar ratio around 1:3 to 1:5 depending upon the sites etc.
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I'm using a transposon tol2 vector (pT2AL200R150G - 10.1534/genetics.106.060244) to create transgenic zebrafish line.
We first inserted our gene of interest (GOI) into the BamHI site of the vector, which was fused with the eGFP sequence already present in the plasmid. Next, we replaced the native promoter of the vector (ef1a) with another promoter by digesting the vector with XhoI and SalI and ligating the insert via in-fusion ligation.
After cloning and validating, we injected the vector along with the transposase mRNA into the one-cell stage zebrafish embryo. The following day, we observed GFP expression, indicating expression of the GOI fused to it, mainly in the vector with native constitutive promoter Ef1a+GOI. However, after a few days (3/4 days), the fluorescence expression gradually disappeared until it was no longer visible. This is unexpected, as we injected transposase RNA, which should theoretically insert the transposon into the animal's genome. We are wondering if this is a normal occurrence and whether crossing F0 will result in expression in the offspring.
P.S. We performed PCR on the injected animals for both GOI and GFP, and although we observed amplification of the sequences, we did not detect any expression.
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The transient expression of your transgene in zebrafish embryos followed by a loss of fluorescence could be due to several factors. While the Tol2 transposon system is commonly used for stable integration of transgenes into the zebrafish genome, transient expression is not uncommon, especially in the absence of selection pressure. Here are some potential explanations for your observations:
  1. Transient Expression:Transposon-mediated integration does not always result in stable transgene integration in every cell. Some cells may show transient expression, especially if the transgene has not integrated into the genome. This transient expression can be observed shortly after injection but may not be sustained in all cells.
  2. Integration Efficiency:The efficiency of Tol2 transposon integration can vary. The percentage of cells with stable transgene integration may not be high, and only a subset of cells may retain the transgene after cell divisions.
  3. Mosaicism:Zebrafish embryos are known to exhibit mosaic transgene expression, where different cells have different integration events. Mosaicism can contribute to the observed variability in transgene expression.
  4. Promoter Activity:The choice of promoter can also influence the stability and level of transgene expression. It's possible that the promoter replacement or the specific promoter used in your construct may not be driving robust and stable expression in all cell types or throughout development.
  5. Transgene Silencing:Silencing of transgenes can occur, and it may contribute to the loss of expression over time. Zebrafish embryos have defense mechanisms against foreign DNA, and transgenes can be subject to epigenetic silencing.
  6. Embryo Viability:It's also worth considering the overall health and viability of the embryos. If there are issues with embryo survival or development, it could impact transgene expression.
Regarding your plan to cross F0 fish to establish a stable transgenic line, it's possible that stable transgenic lines could still be established even if F0 embryos show only transient expression. However, the success of this approach may depend on the factors mentioned above.
To troubleshoot and improve your transgenic strategy, consider the following:
  • Optimize Promoter Choice: Ensure that the promoter you have chosen is suitable for driving robust and stable expression in the tissues of interest.
  • Increase Transposase mRNA Concentration: If integration efficiency is an issue, consider optimizing the concentration of transposase mRNA during injections.
  • Use Positive Selection: Co-injecting a Tol2 transposon carrying a selectable marker (e.g., antibiotic resistance gene) along with your gene of interest can help select for embryos that have successfully integrated the transgene.
  • Test Different Promoters: If the replacement of the Ef1a promoter is affecting stability, consider testing different promoters that are known to drive strong and stable expression in zebrafish.
  • Consider Tissue-Specific Promoters: If your gene of interest is meant to be expressed in specific tissues, consider using tissue-specific promoters to drive expression in those tissues.
Performing additional experiments, including crossing F0 fish to assess germline transmission and stable expression in F1 generations, can provide valuable information about the success of your transgenic approach. If the issue persists, consulting with experienced researchers in zebrafish transgenesis or molecular biology may provide additional insights into optimizing your experimental design.
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1. My overexpression plasmid (empty vector) is 8200 bp. But it is showing 4000-5000 bp always in the agarose gel, which might be for the supercoiled conformation. But this large difference is acceptable?
2. The same plasmid after digestion ( EcoRI & BamHI) becomes 12000+ bp in the agarose gel. Shouldn't it be around 8000-8200 as it becomes linear after digestion? If it becomes 12000+bp which is too big, is this acceptable? and why it becomes bigger.
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The plasmid becomes bigger because the uncut version is coiled and supercoiled into a tight sphere which moves easily through the agarose due to its small diameter and the fact that many charged moirties are on the inside of the sphere. On linearisation the length becomes greater and all of the charged groups are on the outside of the molecule so there will be a size difference caused by changed electrophoretic mobility changes in the molecule. Having said that you are seeing a very large difference even allowing for agarose separation being rather poor at high molecular weights so you could try a restriction digest with an enzyme (s) that cuts many times in your plasmid and check that the sum of the smaller sizes approximately equals the expected vector size
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Hello,
I'm exploring different modulation types like MPSK, QPSK, and MQAM in various environments. Currently, I'm measuring the error rate but want to understand and measure the Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) more accurately. I'm using a general equation for all modulation types. Is this the right approach, and what should I expect from the EVM vs. Eb/No curve? I'd appreciate any help.
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Murtadha Shukur thank you for this clear answer
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I have insert having flanking regions with XbaI site and and a vector digested with XbaI. How can I prevent self ligation in insert as well as vector before ligation?
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as Matthew Edward Thornton told it is not ideal since, even if you use CIP treatment of the vector to reduce the probability of self ligation, you will have random and no directional insertion of the fragment and therefore after you need to design and set up a good PCR colony screening that is able to identify the colony where the insert carry the right orientation.
Hovever is suggest to you to skip the use of restriction enzimes and use the PIPE cloning approach. You need just an high fidelity polimerase, to amplify both vector and insert, design primers with overhang extremities and a specific e.coli strain (mach 1 thermo work well)
If you are interested to know more details about it you can read the following papers of the inventors of PIPE:
and/or give a look to the following videos on my blog (ProteoCool)
good luck
Manuele
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I'm working on isolating recombinant protein in E.coli (Ni-NTA)
I'am trying to purify recombinant protein that I overexpressed E.coli BL21(DE3)pLysS using the pCold1 vector.
The proteins have 6xhis on their N-terminus
The experimental conditions are as follows:
- E.coli strain : BL21(DE3)pLysS, vector : pCold1
- Grown in 500mL LB medium up to OD of 0.5
- Induction by 1mM IPTG at 37℃ for 6 hour
- Binding buffer : 50mM Tris, 200mM NaCl, 5% glycerol, 25mM imidazole, 1mM DTT, pH8.0
I elute with elution buffer using linear gradient ( 50 to 500mM imidazole)
Lane 1 : 225mM imidazole, Lane 2 : 250mM imidazole ...... Lane 9 : 425mM imidazole
But, even when the imidazole concentration is very high (over 300mM,), all the protein does not elute in the column.
it looks like histidine-tag aggregates.
Has anyone had any similar experiences ? I would appreciate any advice you may have. I'm so confused!!
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I think you are getting good results. Most of the protein eluted in the earlier fractions at reasonable imidazole concentrations. That should be sufficient. The protein that came off later is a minor trailing portion.
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I have insert having flanking regions with XbaI site and and a vector digested with XbaI. How can I prevent self ligation in insert as well as vector before ligation?
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Usually what you do in such case, is that you dephosphorylate your vector with a phosphatase to prevent self-ligation and then perform the ligation.
If the insert self-ligates, it will decrease yield of your ligation, but it won't give you colonies, because it doesn't have ori, selection etc.
The vector should not be able to self-ligate so you shouldn't get colonies with empty vector.
And the vector and insert should ligate at one strand, which is sufficient and bacteria will repair the single strand nick.
However, if possible, you should avoid ligating through the same RE, as it is difficult to ligate and it may insert in both directions (to check quickly, you can design one primer for vector and one for insert and perform colony PCR to quickly distinguish).
If your ligation wouldn't work, I would recommend designing primers for fusion PCR to get your insert into the plasmid quickly.
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I have inserted a 300bp sequence of interest into the PTRV2 vector for use in VIGS and transformed that vector into E.coli, plated on LB Agar w/ 1% Kanamycin. There was growth on the plates, but confirmatory testing with colony PCR showed no amplification for some reason. I re-performed ligation, transformation, and colony PCR and still no amplification.
I've troubleshooted using a longer extension on the off chance the insert was dimerizing/trimerizing, but still no amplification. I routinely use these primers for colony PCR and have not had any issues before. I sent the plasmid off for Sanger sequencing with these same primers and they were unable to determine the sequence. All signs seem to point to the primers being the issues, but how can this be justified given they've not had any previous issues? How would simply adding a different insert render them ineffective? Is my most logical next step to design new primers for this one instance?
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Primers can go bad over time, especially once they're in solution and subjected to repeated freeze-thaws (or even worse, left out thawed). This happens even quicker if they're in water instead of TE buffer. I agree with the above comment, you need to see if there's any results with a positive control.
In the future if anything looks weird with PCR and an old pair of primers, one of the first things to do is just re-order the primers. A primer pair for colony PCR typically costs less than $20 USD, which is extremely cheap compared to almost everything else.
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Dear research community,
We have tried multiple times to transduce E0771 breast cancer cells with viruses to make these cells fluorescent or express luciferase. We have been very unsuccessful. If any of you has these cells transduced with RFP and/or luciferase vectors and is willing to share them with us, please reply back. We'll be more than happy to pay for shipping costs. Thanks to all!
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Hello, I would like to know if you were able to receive these cells. And if so, if you would be able to share them as well !
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I have an experiment, where I amplify a gene sequence with PCR and digest it afterwards with SalI and EcoRI. This gene sequence is the insert for my vector, which is also digested with SalI and EcoRI. My insert is 1.3 kb and my vector 4.5 kb long.
My first problem is that I yield a very low concentration of the insert and vector. For the PCR amplified insert i changed the primer concentration, that worked to some degree. But for the vector I am not sure, what I could do different. Both are verfied with an agarose gel and then gel purified.
My main problem is that the ligation is not working. I am following the companys protocol, but it is not working somehow. The ends of the insert and vector are sticky-end and compatible. I also tried different molar ratios, but that didn´t change anything.
I would be thankful for some tips.
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Did you phosphatase-treat the vector so it won't self-ligate?
I know some companies say that you can do a quick ligation, but extending the time to overnight can help.
Good luck!
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Does anyone have tips for expanding a vector from a supplier? It's ~5ng/uL and stored in 50% glycerol. I attempted to do a transformation as normal but I did not get any growth.
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If it is small you can amplify it using PCR.
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Hi,,, Greetings of the day!
I have been working on a His-tagged viral proteins (expression and purification in E coli. using pET28c vector) from last four year. And this protein have been kept on expressing quite well all the time.
But now i am facing the problem is that after induction with IPTG(0.4mM) the bacterial growth is getting completely arrested. Even after 24 hrs the culture (LB broth) exhibit the same turbidity as it was before induction. where as uninduced culture is growing normally. There was no expression of my protein in cells collected at various intervals after induction.
Can any one please suggest me why this problem is occurring at first place & what can be done to overcome it.
I am failing to understand that how this protein started exhibiting antibacterial activity leading to growth arrest (An apparent possibility)?
Thanks a lot in anticipation!
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Hi Harvijay, can you solve this problem? I have tried as suggested here, but still did not work. Thanks
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from where the transcription of the gene in the vector starts , is it always from 5 to 3 or it depends on the direction of the promoter .
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Ok, are you trying to clone a new gene into pET29a?
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hello all,
after digestion (bamH1, not1) of 8kbp insert from puc19 vector (gel elution of digested product)i ligated it with pacebac1 vector (CIP treated). following ligation i am tranforming it into DH5alpha cells (gentamycin 7ug/ml plates). i did mini prep with the colonies thus obtained and got very poor dna yieds (purity ratios are over 2.0). control transformation without dna is working well (good dna yield, good ratios). i have changed cells to Novagen blue singles, but same trait. i appreciate any suggestions?
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same - pacebac1 alone without insert.
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I want to solve an optimization problem with two vectors:
max ||yAx||^2
s.t. ||y||^2=1
||x||^2=1
where x and y are a vector. The A is a known matrix.
Are there any other solutions besides alternative optimization methods?
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David E. Stewart Thank you for providing the solution. Although the matrix A is known, the problem I encountered has A with an uncertain amount of interference, so the singular value decomposition may only work well when the uncertainty is small. Are you able to provide any other solutions? Looking forward to your reply, thanks.
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I tried and cloned the gene in the 3xFLAG-APEX2-NES vector. i am transfecting 1.5ug of each plasmid in HEK293T cells in 12 well plates at 80% confluency then after 48 hrs of transfection I prepared lysate using RIPA+PIC. on probing with flag antibody only empty vector control is expressed not the fused protein. I have confirmed the clone by sequencing also.
Please help me out with the problem of why fusion protein is not expressed.
thank you
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If you cloned your gene downstream of APEX2, have you made sure the reading frame is correct so that the correct stop codon is used? You can check this in your sequencing data.
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Hello fellow scientists! I'm currently trying to construct a vector for agrobacterium-mediated transformation into rice. Our construct aims to overexpress two proteins (protein A and protein B), each driven by an ubiquitin promoter and nos terminator. We have succeeded in cloning two vectors with each protein individually, but we want to put them into the same vector for transformation, a vector that will be about 20 kb.
Our problem seems to be that, for some reason - potentially toxicity - protein B will not successfully insert into the full vector and be replicated by E. coli. Indeed, getting protein B into its original vector took many attempts with DH5a colonies growing slowly on the selection plates, then not at all in liquid culture. We have run backbone only controls to verify that our antibiotic isn't bad, or that our LB is off. Furthermore, our first attempt at cloning the full vector with both proteins succeeded, but the protein B actually turned out to be flipped (we are forced to use just one restriction digest site), and non-expressible with its stop codon adjacent to the promoter, which suggests that the assembly strategy works. We also tried using a different strain (DH10-B), but all 20 picked colonies were self-ligation products (we are using more insert than vector to try and account for this). To me, it seems like the best explanation would be that the ubiquitin promoter has leaky expression in E. coli, and that protein B is toxic.
So, my questions for you all are: 1. Are there other possible explanations for the reduced to complete lack of growth of DH5a with the insert vs. backbone only? 2. Do you have any other strategies that we should consider for cloning the fully assembled vector?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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1) If the sequence of protein B has repetitive elements, or ones that are homologous to other sequences elsewhere in the plasmid, then recombination within the plasmid can occur in the bacteria leading to the loss of the antibiotic resistance gene. This would make the transformed bacteria grow more slowly. If this is the issue, you can resolve it by using a recombination deficient strain of E coli (like NEB Stable), and by growing the bacteria at 32C instead of 37C.
2) Gibson assembly is a simple and very efficient cloning method that works well with a single restriction site, and it will always ensure correct orientation of the insert. NEB's manual on Gibson assembly is a good place to learn about it.
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As suggested by the formula by Promega's pGEM-T Easy protocol,
(ng of vector x kb size of insert)/kb size of vector x insert:vector molar ratio= ng of insert
using example given by protocol, vector is 3kb and supplied at 50 ng/ul, using ratio 3:1, pcr product 0.5 kb.
hence,
(50 ng vector x 0.5kb insert)/3.0 kb vector x 3/1 = 25 ng insert(PCR product)
My question is,
How do I convert the "ng" to "ul"? I have struggled in the past understanding this conversion.
Can someone kindly teach me the steps to calculate how much in uL of PCR product is equivalent to 25ng ?
Thank you in advance.
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The volume depends on the concentration of the insert (PCR product). If your insert is at 25 ng/µL, then to get 25 ng you need to use 1 µL. If your insert is at 50 ng/µL, then to get 25 ng you need to use 0.5 µL. Etc
To measure the concentration of your insert, I would first do a column clean up step after the PCR to remove any excess primers and leftover dNTPs. Then you can quantify the cleaned up PCR product using Qubit or Nanodrop or any other method for quantifying DNA.
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I have been trying to insert a 1.2kb fragment in pGEMT vector. I have used taq polymerase for the PCR amplification and did use gel extraction process to purify the PCR product. After ligation and transformation into the vector I got 7 white colonies in blue white screening but none of them has the insert within. Can anybody please tell me what can be the possible reason and how to troubleshoot?
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Sreya Ghosal, did you add X-gal and IPTG to your agar plates? If you did, then the problem might be with the vector or, more specifically, with lacZ gene (possible mutation?). Has the vector worked before for blue/white screening for anyone?
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I am trying to do some harmonic analysis , I have to select the most effective natural modes. I have the modal matrix (natural modes eigen vectors), but I am confused between many techniques. some techniques depend on selection of modes based on orthogonality of modes. while some techniques depend on independency of the modes like (Modal Independence Factor (MIF), Modal Independence Index (MII), and Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC)).
Are there any other techniques ? and which of them consider the most effective and feasible technique ? and if it is possible to include a literature for such method ?
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The modes shapes of a system are orthogonal to each other but with respect to mass and stiffness matrix of the system. Therefore, they are not directly orthogonal to each other. MAC or other approaches do not determine whether the modes are independent from each other. They only give how close the one vector (mode shape vector) to another vector (mode shape vector). MAC value clsoe to 1 means that they the two vectors (in this case modes) are very close to each other; hence, they can be treated as the same modes. MAC value close to 0 means that they are different modes. Therefore, these approaches are used to identify whether a mode obtained from two different approaches (two different programs, analytical versus experimental, etc.) are the same modes or not. However, they do not give any idea about whether the mode shapes are orthogonal or not, since orthogonality is defined based on the mass and stiffness matrices of the system.
There two things to be considered for the determination of which modes will participate in the response.
1) First is the frequency range of the excitation acting on the system. Neglecting the damping the system consider the 1/(wr^2-w^2) term for each mode r for the frequency range of interest. You can eliminate the modes which have very small values (use threshold value) from your solution.
2) Second is the forcing itself. Where it is applied and which modes it can excite. You can simply calculate the modal forcing term i.e. Phi_r^T*F as if the force is constant. Eliminate the modes selected based on the first criteria if modal forcing is very small (use threshold value). Then use the remaining modes in your analysis.
If you want, you can combine them to get a simple expression.
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I cut a vector that already contain the promoter using BstBI enzyme. The electrophoresis gel result showed that no different between control and vector+plasmid cut BstBI enzyme. There are more than 1 band found in the gel. Does anyone have any idea why it is this way?
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Thank you very much Prof. Liger for your answer
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Hi everyone
I have 2 vectors and I want to transform these into one bacteria cell (SHuffle strain).
Do you think co-transformation (Transforming 2 vectors together in one step into the competent cell) has an effect on Protein expression?
Or, that I have to transform the vectors step by step (e.g. transforming vector number 1 after that competent this cell and transform vector number 2).
is really different between these two strategies for Protein expression?
Note: I used co-transformation for these 2 vectors But the Expression rate was so low Compared with when I Expressed one vector Separately.
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Thank you so much for your comment.
actually, My results show no difference between CO-transformation and competent in protein expression (I competented My Bacteria and Used step-by-step transformation).
However, thank you.
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I tried Gibson Assembly to do cloning recently but all failed.
I used Snapgene to get primers for the amplication of vector and fragment. PCR worked well. Vector is 2.6kb and Fragment is 4.3kb. Notice the fragment (insert) is bigger than the vector.
I used 2X Gibson mix, always 50ng of vector, and tried Vector : Fragment = 3:1 and 1:3, since fragment is bigger than vector. The incubation time I tried 50C 15min, 25min, 60 min. The transformation I tried electrocompentent cells, stabl3 cells, and One shot cells.
I smeared all bacterial onto the selective plate for colony growth.
I could find a few colonies on the plate, but the sequencing results showed they are all original vectors.
Then I further used Dpn I to digest the Gibson reaction products before transformation, and the subsequent sequencing results of the colonies showed that they are the self-circled constructs of vector PCR product.
Anyway, the Gibson assembly did not work. Why? because the fragment is too larger? Do I need to try vector : Fragment=1:1? Do I need to extend the incubation time for Assembly, like 2-3 hours? The overlap of primers is 40 bp.
Thank you so much for your suggestion. I am looking forward to your opinion.
Qinhong Wang
UNC-Chapel Hill
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How long do I need to incubate for Gibson reaction at 50C? 30 mins is enough? or 60 mins?
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Following the findings in the field of deformable algebra, can deformation of an n-dimensional vector space contribute to changing its initial dimension?
How will this contribute to finding the appropriate deformations for infinite-dimensional algebra on the basis that algebra is a vector space with an additional structure, with the hope that this will lead to new physical systems with an infinite number of symmetries, and thus complementarity in the hope of enhancing one of what the theory of strings aspires to ?
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We can say, that the concept of deforming an n-dimensional vector space can indeed change its initial dimension, and this idea extends to exploring deformations in infinite-dimensional algebras, particularly in the context of theoretical physics. These deformations can impact symmetries in physical systems, offering alternative descriptions that may complement the insights from theories like string theory. Overall, studying deformed algebras is an ongoing area of research with the potential to uncover new mathematical structures and enhance our understanding of fundamental physics.
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Hi all, I am currently working with a bacterial membrane protein with intentions on solubilizing it through styrene-maleic acid (SMA) copolymers. Previously, I'm able to express this protein to good yield in the pET-21a(+) vector with a C-terminal 6xHis-tag, however, I am not able to purify this protein using IMAC due to unfavorable interactions between the copolymer and nickel resin. Because of this, I wanted to use a metal-free affinity purification technique, such as the twin-strep system. I constructed a new vector in the same pET-21a(+) vector, but with an added N-terminal twin-strep tag, but this construct did not express at all with different media, temperatures, times, etc. I constructed another vector, but this time adding a twin-strep-SUMO N-terminal tag, hoping that the possible disorder from the twin-strep tag would be alleviated with the added SUMO tag, however, I am getting the same issue with the protein not overexpressing. Does anyone have any solutions to this? I am currently growing in 1L TB media, BL21 cell line, 37C growth with 18C overnight induction with IPTG. It is possible that adding the N-term tags disable the protein from being expressed, since without it, the protein is expressed to good yields.
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Like Aditya had said, it looks like adding N-terminal tags to your membrane protein construct caused the expression issues. Also, according to Aditya's suggestion, it may also be wise that you explore alternative solubilization and purification methods. DDM works well for many different membrane proteins in my hands.
If you could not make it work after trying all the suggestions mentioned, you may consider trying this protein production core facility (https://tamu.corefacilities.org/service_center/show_external/5805) which has served many labs for their difficult-to-express protein projects. Best wishes.
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My lab has the NEB Gibson Assembly kit (unfortunately not the Hifi kit) and I have been struggling for months to assemble various different constructs. I'm wondering if anyone has used this kit specifically and if there are any specific things/tricks you do or use?
I have tried to insert 3 fragments (ranging between 500 bp - 2 kb) into a vector backbone, as well as overlap PCRs to insert 1 fragment into the vector. All fragments have between 30-40 bp homology regions. I PCR amplify all of my pieces (including backbone) and gel extract them because we don't have DpnI. I can get the overlap PCR working well, so I thought the primers/homology regions were designed ok. Yet, I can't get a simple 1 insert into 1 vector reaction working - I consistently get zero colonies (occasionally I've gotten an absurdly low number like 2 or 4, but screening them they're false positives).
I've used NEB's positive control to make sure the Gibson mix is working and got many colonies, but unfortunately they don't provide much information on the contents other than it's 2 DNA fragments so I'm not sure how they designed the two fragments to be ligated.
I have typically been adding 50 ng vector and tried both equimolar amounts of insert and 2-3 fold molar excess of insert. Is there a concern that there is too much salt contamination carried over from the gel extraction? I was curious about the positive control NEB provides and nanodrop read quite comparable A260:A230 ratio between that and my fragment mix. I've also tried adding 5% DMSO into the reaction in case secondary structures were preventing efficient assembly, as well as transforming 50 uL of NEB10b with 2uL vs. 10uL of the Gibson reaction. And nothing seems to stick.
Sidenote I tried IVA once and didn't work for me, but if you have any specific recommendations with that I'd also be willing to try troubleshoot that method if I continue to have issues with Gibson.
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This is a terrible kit, the hi-fi builder is much better at the job. Gibson kit requires more than 6 hrs or even overnight to get the proper assembly done while cloning multiple fragments. Since you are getting assembly products using the overlap extension PCR you can do some things:
1) amplify the fused overlap PCR product using 5' phosphorylated primers/or phosphorylate them after PCR using T4 PNK and then use it for blunt end cloning.
2) try to amplify the vector and. fused product with homology to each other and gel purify/Dpn1 treat them and then directly transform in dh5a, the e coli joins the homology ends in a recA independent homologous recombination reaction within. (One of the easiest and fastest cloning methods I have used to date.)
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I have an overnight culture in 2XYT broth-medium, which has been transformed using M13 phages as vector.
I would like to extract the plasmid for gene sequencing. Could someone tell me how long they could be stored at 4°C and if the plasmid would still be fit for sequencing.
Thank you in advance.
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I guess you just need to try it and find out. Most likely it will be fine.
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Hi all,
I'm attempting to clone a GC rich insert (500bp) into a vector that is approximately 5kb and also GC rich. After sequential digests (one enzyme works at 37 while the other works at 65 degrees Celsius), a 0.5% agarose gel reveals that the vector was efficiently cut as indicated by a 500bp shift down of the parent insert vector. Oddly, the 500 bp insert is barely visible. When blown out, the gel shows a smear near the 500 bp region. Is there a reason this is occurring? We are struggling to get any colonies to appear for diagnostic digests so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
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I agree with D. Liger. You should use more concentrated gel. If the problem still exists, you can increase the time of the restriction enzyme digest.
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It is very likely that it is none of this?
The question arises, does the answer to the question belong to "Shut up and calculate"?
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Many people think that the quantum wave function Ψ is a vector belonging to a (separable) Hilbert space, which is not true.
It is surprising that Ψ is usually expressed as a vector or even a scalar depending on the geometric shape of the boundary conditions and the nature of the dependence of the applied potential over time.
It is true that the simple concept of Ψ(Psi) is a complex-valued function that encodes both magnitude and phase information. In many situations, Ψ can be represented as a sum of a sufficiently large number of trigonometric, sine or cosine functions, where the magnitude corresponds to the amplitude of the wave and the phase represents the starting point of the oscillation .
Conceptually, you can think of the magnitude of Ψ as encapsulating measurable quantities analogous to classical parameters. For example, in position space, the square of the magnitude of Ψ gives the probability density of finding a particle at a particular position.
N. Bohr once said that anyone who claims to understand SE, including himself, either has misunderstood or is simply a liar.
But what is the alternative to Schrödinger's equation and ?
The answer is that we assume that the most general and useful form of quantum wave function Ψ is a complex transfer matrix.
It is expected that an adequate statistical transition matrix (such as the complex matrix Q) can solve the time-dependent SE without the need for a mathematical solution of the SE equation or the interpretation of Bohr/ Copenhagen.
In such breakthrough solution techniques, you completely ignore SE as if it never existed.
So as not to overload the answer with the details of the theory, which is best described as an extension of the transition chains from the B matrix to the complex space.
We present a brief overview of the theory and its numerical validation.
The time-dependent numerical statistical solution of Schrödinger's PDE is given by,
Ψ(matrix)=W(transfer matrix) . BC (matrix)
BC is the vector of boundary conditions (in the case of a constant potential over time) or the matrix of boundary conditions when the applied potential varies with time.
W (transfer matrix) is expressed as:
W(N)=Q^0+Q+Q^2+Q^3+. . . +Q^N. . . . . (1)
Obviously Q^0=I, the unitary matrix.
N is the dimensionless time and Ndt =t the real time which is completely lost in the numerical statistical solution.
For a sufficiently large number of iterations, N Eq 1 gives the steady-state solution where W is expressed by:
W=1/(I-Q) . . . . . (2)
We know that,
Q=Sqrt(B) . . . . (3)
Where B is the actual transition matrix used in the solution of Laaplace, Poisson, PDE Heat Diffusion/Conduction,...etc.
0.15             1.63211572 1.63211584We also know that,For physical power matrices with positive symmetry, the sum of their eigenvalues ​​is equal to the eigenvalue of their sum of power series. . . . . . . . . . Principle (1)By somewhat expertly manipulating equations 1,2,3 in addition to principle (1), you can show that:
the formula 1/[1-SQRT(X)] can be expressed by the infinite integer series,1/[1-SQRT(X)] =X^0+X^1/2+X^3/2+. . . . +X^(N-1)/2 . . . (4)
Where X is an element of the interval ]0,1].We applied Equation 4 as a numerical validation of the Q transition matrix and the results were surprisingly accurate:
X           Formula 1/[1-SQRT(X)]     Power series Eq 4
0.15             1.63211572 1.63211584
0.35             2.44862771                        2.445.0911
0.65             5.16064501                         5.09116888
The slight difference in the last value is due to a truncation error.
To be continued.
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I need research papers on creativity in designing ready-made vector graphics or similar
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Maysa Rasras Maysa, I don't have research papers. But creativity is not diminished by using ready made art. The first computers came with (free) ready-made art. With internet access came free "clip-art". The two popular vector software packages have (since 1995) shapes, filters, multi-color gradients graphic libraries. I suggest ready-mades only make you appear to have drawing skills. Use them and you can explore more ideas.
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For the Gibson cloning into pH-ePPE vector (19kb), I use NEB Hifi builder mix with 400ng of vector backbone (18kb) and 10ng of 250bp insert and NEB chemically competent 10beta cells for transformation. I know my Gibson assembly is working as I have confirmed by PCR. I have used 1ul to 10 ul of Gibson product as well as 1ul of 1:3 diluted product, but I am not getting a single colony post transformation.
  • The competent cells are functional, verified by transforming the vector pH-ePPE.
  • The vector doesn't have any toxic genes like ccdB and I also confirmed that the gibson mix is not toxic to cells by using positive control.
  • I also used NEB 5 alpha cells, but no no colonies with that also
Can anybody suggest how to troubleshoot this problem.
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Hi Sanjay T D I'm currently trying to clone a 700bp insert into a 18kb vector and I'm having the same issue as you : no colonies. I'm pretty sure the problem comes from the transformation part and not the gibson assembly. I've read a lot about it and apparently 18kb is really big for bacteria if you're doing a heatshock (like I do). people recommand using electroporation instead (if you can).
If you manage to clone your insert please let me know because I'm really struggling. So far I've tried different ratios 1:1, 1:3, 1:10: 1:20 with vector quantities from 100ng up to 300ng.
Have a nice day.
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I have a insert of 400 bp cloned in vector pbluescript II KS (+) of size 3.0kb at RE sites XbaI and XhoI. But when I try to double digest the plasmid it is not happening. I am sharing picture of result showing the same. Please can anyone provide me the reason and solution for this.
Fig: Lane1: 100 bp plus ladder; lane 2: plasmid double digested; lane 3: plasmid single digested; lane 4: uncut plasmid
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I am assuming when you say "it is not happening" means you are unable to see the 400bp insert in the gel? You do not say how much plasmid you digested but more than likely there is not enough insert in the gel to visualize.
Your 400bp insert is ~12% of the overall 3400bp size of the plasmid so if you digested only 100ng of plasmid, you would only have ~12ng of insert to see in the gel which is on the low end of what is possible to see in an agarose gel. If you double digest 500ng of the plasmid you should be able to easily see the insert (~60ng).
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Dear all,
I'm using lentiviruses to knock down p53, and have had remarkable success so far with un-concentrated harvested media.
I have noticed that the transduction efficiency declines over the period of a few weeks storage at -80, and I was wondering if anyone has a suggested protocol for cryopreservation of lentiviruses.
I'm considering adding 0.5M sucrose and 0.6mg/ml BSA to the media as per Bandeira et. al.
Also, is there a freezing method which works best? Flash-freezing in liquid nitrogen, or ethanol/dry ice?
Thanks!
Sam
Bandeira V, Peixoto C, Rodrigues AF, Cruz PE, Alves PM, Coroadinha AS, Carrondo MJ. Downstream processing of lentiviral vectors: releasing bottlenecks. Hum Gene Ther Methods. 2012 Aug;23(4):255-63. doi: 10.1089/hgtb.2012.059. Epub 2012 Aug 30. PMID: 22934827.
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Thank you Robert Adolf Brinzer and Saman Behboodi Tanourlouee for your suggestions!
Sam