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05-01-2011, 09:45 AM
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 Sequencing Wrong Cloned Insert Hey everyone! I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum! I isolated the internal transcribed spacer region of a fern leaf and transformed into E. coli using a pCR4 TOPO vector. I isolated the PCR product again using EcoRI. My professor then prepared it and sent it off for sequencing. When the sequences came back, I trimmed off the vector sequence still attached and ran a BLAST search to verify that I had fern. But when I ran the search, the sequence came back saying that it belonged to SPINACH!!! So surprising! I have to write a lab report over this and I have no idea how fern turned into spinach. I read an article talking about contamination, but I have no idea how fern would come into contact with spinach. It was definitely a fern plant, and not spinach. Any ideas are welcomed! Thanks  Last edited by admin; 05-01-2011 at 11:20 AM.  |
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05-01-2011, 11:21 AM
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| Re: Sequencing Wrong Cloned Insert Hi there can you post your primers? can you also post your sequenced insert - ie the sequence? Also when you did TOPO cloning, did you use pipettes that were not used by other people working on spinach? |
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05-01-2011, 09:01 PM
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| Re: Sequencing Wrong Cloned Insert The primers I used were ITS-2 and ITS-5m. And I don't know why I didn't get the sequence from my professor! Now I feel dumb! But I was trying to get the internal transcribed spacer region to do plant phylogeny. Well I can't account for people that have used the pipetters before me, but I do know I used fresh tips everytime. I also cannot account for the person who brought in the leaf. I brought in a dandelion leaf initially, but my transformation failed, so the professor assigned me the fern PCR product that was already linked to the TOPO vector. Thanks so much for your help! Last edited by Mandoozle; 05-01-2011 at 09:37 PM. Reason: clarification |
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05-02-2011, 01:30 AM
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| Re: Sequencing Wrong Cloned Insert Just got the message from the prof. A student tried to isolate DNA from spinach this semester, but the PCR failed to amplify the internal transcribed spacer. They went ahead and tried to transform it, but that didn't work. |
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