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Genomic DNA Isolation – Olympia oyster adductor musle & mantle

Isolated gDNA from Ostrea lurida (Olympia oyster) adductor muscle & mantle samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150812 using DNAzol (Molecular Research Center) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 73.5mg of adductor muscle
  • 146mg of mantle
  • Tissues homogenized in 750μL of DNAzol with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using 10 pestle strokes
  • After homogenization, topped off tubes to 1000μL with DNAzol and incubated @ RT for 10mins.
  • Performed optional centrifugation step (10,000g, 10mins @ RT)
  • Initial pellet wash was performed using a 70%/30% DNAzol/EtOH
  • Pellets were resuspended in 200μL of Buffer EB (Qiagen)
  • Insoluble material was pelleted (12,000g, 10mins @ RT) and supe transferred to new tubes

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing.

 

Results:

 

 

There was a great deal of insoluble material from the get-go that was carried through the entire isolation.

Overall, the 260/280 ratios look pretty good, but the 260/230 ratios are just trash. As can be seen in the plots above, there is clearly significant absorbance in the 230 – 250nm, suggesting some contaminant carryover (phenol/salt).

Will evaluate gDNA integrity on agarose gel.

 

Yields from this isolation:

Adductor muscle: 18.75μg

Mantle: 15.9μg

 

Total Olympia oyster gDNA from this isolation: 34.65μg

 

Total Olympia oyster gDNA accumulated for this project: 88.75μg

 

Great! Have sufficient gDNA to send to BGI (minimum of 73μg needed). Assuming gDNA integrity looks good on a gel, I will pool samples tomorrow, quantify the pooled gDNA and prepare for submission.

Genomic DNA Isolation – Geoduck Adductor Muscle & Foot

Isolated gDNA from Panopea generosa (geoduck) adductor muscle & foot samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150811 using the DNAzol (Molecular Research Center) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 102.5mg of adductor muscle 1
  • 76.7mg of adductor muscle 2
  • 84.2mg of foot 1
  • 54.5mg of foot 2
  • Tissues homogenized in 750μL of DNAzol with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using 10 pestle strokes
  • After homogenization, topped off tubes to 1000μL with DNAzol and incubated @ RT for 10mins.
  • Performed optional centrifugation step (10,000g, 10mins @ RT)
  • Initial pellet wash was performed using a 70%/30% DNAzol/EtOH
  • Pellets were resuspended in 200μL of Buffer EB (Qiagen)
  • Insoluble material was pelleted (12,000g, 10mins @ RT) and supe transferred to new tubes

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing next week.

 

Results:

 

 

There was a great deal of insoluble material from the get-go that was carried through the entire isolation.

Overall, the 260/280 ratios look pretty good, but the 260/230 ratios are just trash. As can be seen in the plots above, there is clearly significant absorbance in the 230 – 250nm, suggesting some contaminant carryover (phenol/salt).

Will evaluate gDNA integrity on agarose gel.

Yields from this isolation:

Adductor muscle 1: 11.03μg

Adductor muscle 2: 1.95μg

Foot 1: 4.6μg

Foot 2: 1.64μg

 

Total geoduck gDNA from this isolation: 19.2μg

 

Total geoduck gDNA accumulated for this project: 69μg

Still need an additional 4μg at a minimum! Will isolate more gDNA tomorrow…

Genomic DNA Isolation – Olympia oyster adductor musle & mantle

Previously isolated gDNA from these tissues on 20150901. However, found out after the isolations that BGI needs >73μg of gDNA for the genome sequencing project, which is significantly more than I obtained previously.

Isolated gDNA from Ostrea lurida (Olympia oyster) adductor muscle & mantle samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150812 using DNAzol (Molecular Research Center) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 89.8mg of adductor muscle
  • 92.2mg of mantle
  • Tissues homogenized in 750μL of DNAzol with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using 10 pestle strokes
  • After homogenization, topped off tubes to 1000μL with DNAzol and incubated @ RT for 10mins.
  • Performed optional centrifugation step (10,000g, 10mins @ RT)
  • Initial pellet wash was performed using a 70%/30% DNAzol/EtOH
  • Pellets were resuspended in 200μL of Buffer EB (Qiagen)
  • Insoluble material was pelleted (12,000g, 10mins @ RT) and supe transferred to new tubes

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing.

 

Results:

 

There was a great deal of insoluble material from the get-go that was carried through the entire isolation.

Overall, the 260/280 ratios look pretty good, but the 260/230 ratios are just trash. As can be seen in the plots above, there is clearly significant absorbance in the 230 – 250nm, suggesting some contaminant carryover (phenol/salt).

Will evaluate gDNA integrity on agarose gel.

Total yield from this isolation is still below the minimum quantity of gDNA needed for the sequencing project. Will need to perform another round of gDNA isolation.

Genomic DNA Isolation – Geoduck Adductor Muscle & Foot

Previously isolated gDNA from these tissues on 20150828. However, found out after the isolations that BGI needs >73μg of gDNA for the genome sequencing project, which is significantly more than I obtained previously.

Isolated gDNA from Panopea generosa (geoduck) adductor muscle & foot samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150811 using the DNAzol (Molecular Research Center) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 58.8mg of adductor muscle 1
  • 84.0mg of adductor muscle 2
  • 70.3mg of foot 1
  • 95.1mg of foot 2
  • Tissues homogenized in 750μL of DNAzol with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using 10 pestle strokes
  • After homogenization, topped off tubes to 1000μL with DNAzol and incubated @ RT for 10mins.
  • Performed optional centrifugation step (10,000g, 10mins @ RT)
  • Initial pellet wash was performed using a 70%/30% DNAzol/EtOH
  • Pellets were resuspended in 200μL of Buffer EB (Qiagen)
  • Insoluble material was pelleted (12,000g, 10mins @ RT) and supe transferred to new tubes

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing next week.

 

Results:

 

There was a great deal of insoluble material from the get-go that was carried through the entire isolation.

Overall, the 260/280 ratios look pretty good, but the 260/230 ratios are just trash. As can be seen in the plots above, there is clearly significant absorbance in the 230 – 250nm, suggesting some contaminant carryover (phenol/salt). Oddly, the side-by-side isolations from two different collections of the same tissue type yielded drastically different quantities of gDNA than each other.

Will evaluate gDNA integrity on agarose gel.

Total yield from this isolation is still far below the minimum quantity of gDNA needed for the sequencing project. Will need to perform another round of gDNA isolation.

Genomic DNA Isolation – Olympia oyster adductor musle & mantle

Isolated gDNA from Ostrea lurida (Olympia oyster) adductor muscle & mantle samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150812 using the E.Z.N.A Mollusc DNA Kit (Omega Bio-Tek) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 29.8mg of adductor muscle
  • 28.7mg of mantle
  • Tissues homogenized in 350μL of ML1 Buffer with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using only three pestles strokes
  • Homogenized tissue incubated in ML1 Buffer + Proteinase K @ 60C for 2.5hrs
  • Added 310μL of MBL Buffer to adductor muscle sample and 265μL of MBL Buffer to mantle sample
  • Added 620μL of 100% EtOH and 530μL of 100% EtOH to the adductor muscle and mantle sample, respectively.
  • Eluted with 50μL Elution Buffer.

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing.

 

Results:

 

 

 

Yields are good (~6μg for the adductor muscle and ~10μg for the mantle).

The adductor muscle sample looks pretty good (perfect 260/280 ratio and solid 260/230 ratio), while the mantle sample looks OK (good 260/280 ratio, tolerable 260/230 ratio). Will run samples on gel to assess gDNA integrity.

 

Genomic DNA Isolation – Geoduck Adductor Muscle & Foot

Isolated gDNA from Panopea generosa (geoduck) adductor muscle & foot samples collected by Brent & Steven on 20150811 using the E.Z.N.A Mollusc DNA Kit (Omega Bio-Tek) according to the manufacturer’s protocol, with the following adjustments:

  • 41.8mg of adductor muscle
  • 30.0mg of foot used
  • Tissues homogenized in 350μL of ML1 Buffer with disposable mortar/pestle tubes using only three pestles strokes
  • Homogenized tissue incubated in ML1 Buffer + Proteinase K @ 60C for 2.5hrs
  • Added 265μL of MBL Buffer
  • Added 514μL of 100% EtOH.
  • Eluted with 75μL Elution Buffer.

Spec’d on Roberts Lab NanoDrop1000 (ThermoFisher) and stored temporarily at 4C to avoid freeze-thawing before sending off for sequencing next week.

 

Results:

 

 

 

Yields are good (~7ug).

Quality (260/280 ratios) looks great for both samples.

260/230 ratio not very good for adductor muscle, but perfect for foot tissue.

Will run samples on gel to assess gDNA integrity.

 

DNA Isolation – C.gigas larvae from 2011 NOAA OA Experiment

DNA was isolated from the following samples:

SAMPLE ID DATE TREATMENT (ppm) # LARVAE
6B5 20110513 400 5,000
1B2 20110513 1000 5,000
6B2 20110513 400 10,000
1B1 20110513 1000 10,000
1B1 20110519 1000 NA
1B2 20110519 1000 NA
6B2 20110519 400 NA
6B1 20110519 400 NA

 

Some tubes contained a high quantity of algae, based on quantity of material in tube and overall green color.

Samples 1B1 & 1B2 from 20110519 have excessive quantities of algae.

Samples 6B1 & 6B1 from 20110519 have a fair amount of algae.

See pic:

 

Sample tubes after brief spin, prior to DNA isolation.

Prior to isolation, samples were briefly spun (12,000g, 15s @ RT). Supernatants were discarded.

 

 

DNA Isolation

DNA was isolated using the DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen).

Samples were resuspended in 180uL of Buffer AL and 20uL of Proteinase K. Samples were mixed by vortexing and incubated @ 56C O/N.

The manufacturer’s protocol (Purification of Total DNA from Animal Tissues (Spin-Column Protocol)) was followed.

Due to low quantities of starting tissue, samples were eluted with 200μL of Buffer EB to maximize DNA recovery.

 

DNA Quantification

Samples were prepared for quantification via fluorescence using the Quant-iT DNA BR Kit (Life Technologies/Invitrogen). The manufacturer’s protocol was altered to use 5μL of sample and 5μL of standards (instead of 10μL) in each well. All samples/standards were run in duplicate and read on a FLx800 plate reader (BioTek).

Mean fluorescence of the standards were plotted with a best-fit line. The resulting equation from the best-fit line was used to determine sample concentrations from their mean fluorescence.

 

Results:

Calcs and resulting quantities are here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e7EF05akWeBtO7Xz0UWXhIzRlkVU5HA_rjCE3c4SPEw/edit?usp=sharing

 

All samples have yields great enough to proceed with shearing and bisulfite conversion.

Samples 1B1 and 1B2 from 20110519 have extremely large yields.  This is not surprising, considering the amount of algae present in the source tubes.  Will process only 500ng from each sample.

 

 

DNA Shearing

Adjusted volume of all samples to 190μL using Buffer EB (Qiagen) in 1.5mL snap-cap tubes.

Samples were sonicated/sheared in the Bioruptor (Diagenode) with the following cycling protocol:

25 cycles of:

30s on

30s off

Cycling params were adjusted from the last time I performed this, since I felt the final sheared size was a bit on the small size.

After shearing, samples were stored @ 4C until I could SpeedVac them to reduce their volumes, as the bisulfite treatment step requires volumes < 24uL.

 

DNA Isolation – Claire’s C.gigas Female Gonad for Illumina Bisulfite Sequencing

Due to poor “tag counts” from the initial sequencing (DATE) and the re-sequencing (20131127) of this sample, the HTGU facility has concluded that the library is probably at fault. They will make a new library and do a quality control run on the new library. However, they have insufficient gDNA left to make a new library.

Isolated gDNA from Claire’s sample following the DNAzol protocol.

Transferred ~300uL of female C.gigas gonad from the source tube (ethanol-preserved) to a clean tube. Pelleted gonadal material by spinning 10,000g, 30seconds, @ RT. Decanted residual ethanol. Resuspended tissue in 500uL of DNAzol + 100ug of Proteinase K (Fermentas; 18.5mg/mL). Incubated on a rotator for ~6hrs. Proceeded according to DNAzol protocol. Resuspended final pellet in 100uL of Elution Buffer (Qiagen; EB). After resuspension, pelleted remaining debris 16,000g, 30seconds, @ RT. Transferred supernatant to clean tube and quantified on NanoDrop 1000.

CgF – 403.2ng/uL

Will bring tube to sequencing facility tomorrow morning.

DNA Isolation – C.gigas Larvae from Emma OA Experiments

Isolated gDNA using DNazol from the following larval samples for potential MBD selection and bisulfite sequencing:

– Added 500uL of DNAzol to each tube, transferred to 1.5mL tube and homogenized with disposable pestles

– Added additional 500uL DNAzol to each homogenized sample and mixed by inversion.

– Incubated 10mins at RT

– Pelleted debris by spinning 10,000g, 10mins, @ RT

– Transferred supes to new tubes

– Added 500uL of 100% EtOH to each; mixed by inversion; incubated 10mins @ RT

– Pelleted DNA by spinning 5,000g, 4mins, @ RT

– Discarded supes

– Washed DNA with 1mL 70% DNAzol/30% EtOH solution

– Spun 1000g, 1min, @ RT

– Discard supes

– Washed DNA with 1mL 75% EtOH

– Spun 1000g, 1min, @ RT

– Discarded supes

– Spun 1000g, 1min, @ RT

– Removed residual EtOH with pipette; air dried samples for 5mins @ RT

– Added 20uL of Trish-HCl (pH = 8.0) to each sample; incubated 10mins @ RT; flicked tubes to help dissolve

– Spun 12,000g, 10mins, @ RT

– Transferred supes to new tubes

– Spec’d on NanoDrop 1000 (ThermoFisher) and recovered solution from each sample due to limited sample volume

Results:

DNA Isolation – Olympia Oyster Populations for RAD Sequencing

Olympia oysters from three different Puget Sound locations/populations (HL, NF, and SN) were collected and stored @ -80C on 8/29/2103.

We removed whole bodies from 32 oysters (randomly selected; ~5 -10mm “diameter” shells) from each population and placed them into a 96 well DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen). DNA was prepared/isolated according to the manufacturer’s protocol.

DNA was eluted once with 200uL of Buffer AE and stored @ 4C.

Plate is called: Oly Oyster gDNA-01

Plate layout can be found here: 20141022-OlyRADdnaConcentrations

UPDATE 20141017

Steven ran the samples out on a gel for quality assessment. His notebook entry can be seen here:

Gel layout info and image of gel 1 of 2: http://sr320.tumblr.com/post/100245499294

Images of gel 2 of 2: http://sr320.tumblr.com/post/100231194034

The samples are all heavily smeared, suggesting heavy degradation. Will compare Qiagen kit with DNazol on some of the samples from 8/29/2013, as well as samples more recently collected/frozen.