Andrea Carobbi

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Which MOPS concentration I should use to buffer my LB media?

I need to use LB media at different pH (6.5/7/8) and I found that MOPS buffer has the right pKa that cover my range: MOPS pKa at 25°: 7.14 MOPS pH range: 6.5 – 7.9 However, I don't know at which...

03 November 2021 7,124 1 View

How can I remove the biofilm from my Bacillus liquid culture?

I'm working with the Bacillus subtilis wild type strain NCIB3610. I use to grow it on LB liquid media, 37 Celsius degree (culture tubes) overnight before performing my experiments. After the...

04 October 2021 988 6 View

Is there a limit of the plasmid size that can be transferred by triparental mating?

Hello colleagues, I'm trying to transfer the plasmid pKEB31:GOI carried by E. coli DH5alfa on Pantoea agglomerans using E. coli pRK2073 as helper. I did this triparental mating lots of time with...

17 October 2019 6,878 3 View

Why my mutant lose the vector so fast?

I create a mutant deleting a GOI and I complemented it using a vector carrying the removed GOI. I checked my strains by PCR using two pairs of primer, a pair for the removed gene and a second pair...

02 September 2019 610 1 View

Why I got DNA amplification in NTC and -RT samples (qPCR)?

Hi everybody, I carried out a qPCR in order to quantify expression level of two genes under different conditions. I used three pairs of primers, one for the endogenous control and two for the...

14 August 2019 3,749 5 View