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A Practical Manual of Experimental Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Series II)-GREEN


Price: 500/- PKR
Edition: 2023-2024 (2nd edition)
ISBN: 978-627-7502-05-8 (Print)
Published by Dr. Muhammad Ali

Eighty-eight (88) full-length experiments are included

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Contents of Series II, GREEN

  1. Molecular Biology. 1

Experiment 1.1- Total Genomic DNA extraction from plant by the CTAB method. 5

Experiment 1.2- DNA extraction from fungi 6

Experiment 1.3- Miniprep extraction of plasmid from bacteria. 6

Experiment 1.4- Total genomic DNA extraction from mouse tail/tissue. 7

Experiment 1.5- Quick tail DNA extraction (Jackson’s lab) 8

Experiment 1.6- DNA extraction from blood. 9

Experiment 1.7- Quantification of DNA and RNA by nanodrop. 9

Experiment 1.8- Designing of primers for endpoint PCR from coding sequence of EI24. 10

Experiment 1.9- Designing of primers for qPCR to check transcription of EI24. 15

Experiment 1.10- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for genotyping. 20

Experiment 1.11- Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR product ~150 bp long. 21

Experiment 1.12- Restricting fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) 22

Experiment 1.13- Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) of PCR product. 22

Experiment 1.14- Gel extraction protocol (Qiagen Gel Extraction Kit) 24

Experiment 1.15- Purification of PCR product and enzyme-mediated digestion. 24

Experiment 1.16- RNA extraction from cultured cells/tissue. 25

Experiment 1.17- Quality test of RNA by agarose gel electrophoresis. 25

Experiment 1.18- Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain (RT-PCR) reaction. 26

Experiment 1.19- Quantitative PCR (qPCR) and operation of the software. 26

Experiment 1.20- Tissue sample lysis for Western blot analysis. 28

Experiment 1.21- Lysis of cultured cells for Western blot analysis. 29

Experiment 1.22- Ammonium sulfate-facilitated protein concentration. 30

Experiment 1.23- Protein quantification by BCA method and protein normalization. 31

Experiment 1.24- SDS-PAGE gel for protein samples. 32

Experiment 1.25- Continuous gradient SDS-PAGE for protein samples. 33

Experiment 1.26- Coomassie Brilliant Blue (CBB) staining for SDS-PAGE. 34

Experiment 1.27- Silver staining for SDS-PAGE gel 34

Experiment 1.28- Western blotting of protein samples obtained from cells and tissues. 35

Experiment 1.29- Protein immunoprecipitation to find protein-protein interaction. 37

 

  1. Basic Tools of Bioinformatics 39

Experiment 2.1- Use NCBI to retrieve sequence of PGC1 alfa gene, mRNA, and protein. 40

Experiment 2.2- Translate DNA sequence into RNA sequence. 45

Experiment 2.3- Alignment of two sequences by NCBI 46

Experiment 2.4- Finding Conserved Regions for PCR Primers and multiple sequence alignment by Clustral W… 49

Experiment 2.5- Determining of the hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of protein. 53

Experiment 2.6- Prediction of trans-membrane helix. 55

Experiment 2.7- Secondary structure prediction (alfa-helix and beta-sheets) 56

Experiment 2.8- Prediction of 3D structure of proteins. 57

Experiment 2.9- Codon optimization for expression in bacteria (E. coli) 60

Experiment 2.10- How will you retrieve data and draw phylogenetic tree. 62

Experiment 2.11- Analysis of physiochemical parameters of proteins. (M. Weight, pI, instability index) 69

Experiment 2.12- Authentication of primers using online tools (oligo analyzer). 73

Experiment 2.13- Prediction of Drug-Receptor interaction Using MOE 2015. 76

 

  1. Cell Biology. 78

Experiment 3.1- Study of cheek cells using methylene blue staining. 81

Experiment 3.2- Study of onion cells and using iodine staining. 81

Experiment 3.3- Observation of fungi cells by lactophenol cotton blue staining. 82

Experiment 3.4- Differentiation between gram +ve and gram –ve bacteria. 82

Experiment 3.5- Stamen hair cells of Tradescantia (light microscopy) 84

Experiment 3.6- Studying different stages of mitosis in onion root tip cells. 84

Experiment 3.7- Study of different stages of meiosis in Tradescantia ohiensis. 85

Experiment 3.8- Different stages of meiosis in the testes of grasshopper. 85

Experiment 3.9- Observing chromosome obtained from blood cells. 86

Experiment 3.10- Observing chromosome obtained from adherent cells (HeLa) 86

Experiment 3.11- Immunohistochemistry (IHC) using anti BrdU antibody. 87

Experiment 3.12- Histology cell shape of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles. 89

Experiment 3.13- White adipose tissue. 90

Experiment 3.14- Liver anatomy and histology. 90

Experiment 3.15- Difference of seed and stem of monocots and dicots. 91

Experiment 3.16- Subculturing adherent mammalian cells. 92

Experiment 3.17- Reviving mammalian cell lines. 93

Experiment 3.18- Cell counting for mammalian cell lines. 93

Experiment 3.19- Cell freezing protocol from ATCC. 94

Experiment 3.20- Thawing of suspension cells. 95

Experiment 3.21- Transfection using lipofectamine. 95

Experiment 3.22- Co-transfection of plasmid DNA and siRNA.. 96

Experiment 3.23- Electroporation of U2OS cell line. 96

Experiment 3.24- Lentivirus production to knockdown TERT mRNA.. 97

Experiment 3.25- Lentivirus Infection and knockdown of TERT mRNA.. 98

Experiment 3.26- Stable cell line expressing EI24 (Transfection method) 99

Experiment 3.27- Preparation of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs) 100

Experiment 3.28- Luciferase reporter assay. 101

Experiment 3.29- Immunocytochemistry (ICC) for the detection of two proteins. 101

Experiment 3.30- Fluorescently Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) analysis. 102

Experiment 3.31- Determination of cell cycle by FACS. 104

Experiment 3.32- MTT assay for cell viability. 105

Experiment 3.33- Colonogenic assay (crystal violet assay) 105

 

  1. Recombinant DNA Technology and Genetic Engineering. 107

Experiment 4.1- Preparation of competent cell 108

Experiment 4.2- Transformation of plasmid containing mutated sequence of TRAF6. 109

Experiment 4.3- TA cloning and selection by blue & white colonies. 110

Experiment 4.4- PCR-facilitated introduction of restriction sites and digestion. 111

Experiment 4.5- Restriction of MMTV- ERT2CreERT2 and gel elution. 112

Experiment 4.6- Ligation of the insert into the vector. 113

Experiment 4.7- PCR-facilitated deletion of RING domain from human TRAF6. 114

Experiment 4.8- PCR-facilitated generation of the point mutation (Pro to Leu) 116

Experiment 4.9- PCR-facilitated addition of HA tag at N-term of TRAF6. 117

Experiment 4.10- Production of recombinant insulin. 120

Experiment 4.11- CRISPR/Cas9 for the generation of Tert knockout cell lines and mice. 122

Experiment 4.12- CRISPR/Cas9 to generate Tert knock-in mice at Rosa26 locus. 125

Experiment 4.13- Analyzing mutations generated in Tert knockout cell line/ mice. 127

 

  1. Appendices. 129

4.1 Cell lines and media. 129

4.2         Useful numbers for cell culture. 129

4.3 Some restriction enzymes. 130

4.4 Reagents for Biochemistry and Biotechnology lab. 131

4.5- Composition for Tris-glycine SDS-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) 132

 

  1. Bibliography and further reading. 133

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