小中大? At 48 hours after streaking, b transformants should be as well grown on CM(Glu)-Ura-His-Leu or CM(Gal)-Ura-His-
Leu as on a CM(Glu)-Ura-His master plate, whereas a and c should show no growth.
? Ideally, a transformants will still display no apparent growth at 96 hours after streaking.
9. Select the appropriate candidate colonies, based on the results of the repression and activation assays.
10. On the master plate, mark the colonies that are to be assayed for protein expression. Use the colony that has been shown to express bait appropriately as the founder to grow a culture for transformation of a library
11. Analyze at least two primary transformants for each novel bait construct. Include two transformants as positive controls for protein expression (e.g., pRFHMI).
a. Use a sterile toothpick to pick colonies from the CM(Glu)-Ura-His master plate into CM(Glu)-Ura-His liquid medium.
b. Grow the cultures overnight on a roller drum or other shaker at 30°C.
c. In the morning, dilute the saturated cultures into fresh tubes containing 3-5 ml of CM(Glu)-Ura-His, with a starting density of OD600 of approx. 0.15. Incubate the cultures for 4-6 hours at 30°C until the optical density has doubled approx. twice (OD600 approx. 0.45-0.7).
12. Transfer 1.5 ml of each culture to a microfuge tube, and centrifuge the cells at maximum speed for 3-5 minutes in a microfuge. The volume of the visible pellet should be 2-5 μl. Carefully decant or aspirate the supernatant.
13. Add 50 μl of 2x SDS gel-loading buffer to the tube, and vortex the tube rapidly to resuspend the pellet. Immediately place the tube either on dry ice or in a dry ice/ethanol bath.
14. Transfer the samples from the dry ice or -70°C directly to 100°C and boil them for 5 minutes.
15. Chill the samples on ice and centrifuge them at maximum speed for 5-30 seconds in a microfuge to pellet large cell debris. Load 20-50 μl into each lane of a SDS-polyacrylamide gel.
16. Run the gel and analyze the products to determine whether bait protein of the expected size is expressed at reasonable levels.
17. To anticipate and forestall potential problems, analyze the lysates of yeast containing LexA-fused baits by immunoblotting.