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Figure 1: Growth of methionine auxotroph E.Coli colonies on different medium plates. Five variations of the original auxotrophic E.Coli
strain and a wild type E.Coli strain were prepared and then plated. The medium plates included minimal medium (mm), mm +
homoserine, mm + cystathionine, mm + homocysteine, mm + methionine, and LB (complete medium) plates. After incubation, the
growth was recorded.
minimal minimal minimal
minimal minimal medium + LB (complete
medium + medium + medium +
medium (plate methionine (plate medium, plate
homoserine cystathionine homocysteine
#1) #5) #6)
(plate #2) (plate #3) (plate #4)
WT (BW25113) + + + + + +
Unknown methionine auxotroph #951 + +
metA methionine auxotroph + + + +
metB methionine auxotroph + + + +
metE methionine auxotroph + +
metF methionine auxotroph + +
Table 1: Results of biochemical pathway experiment as visually depicted in Figure 1. This table describes the media that each plate
contained, the bacterial strains used, and the resulting growth on each plate. The results gathered indicated that our unknown
methionine auxotroph #951 was similar to both metE and metF methionine auxotrophic strains in this experimental situation. This
lead to the development of a transformation rescue experiment to test which of those two genes specifically was mutated in our
unknown methionine auxotrophic strain.
POSITIVE CONTROL MetF+ and PCA TRANSFORMATION MetE+ and PCA TRANSFORMATION NEGATIVE CONTROL
Figure 2: Resulting growth of the bacterial transformation of our strain of E.Coli with a single plasmid onto complete medium. Each
plate was also transformed in the presence of the antibiotic chloramphenicol. Growth was only recorded after incubation when PCA
was present in the transformation. From the growth determined in Table 1, we used the plasmids MetE+ and MetF+ in the
transformation to create two strains that would be used to determine which gene our mutation was located in. We also plated our
original E.Coli strain with and without PCA for a positive and negative control group.
MINIMAL MEDIUM PLATE
COMPLETE MEDIUM PLATE
Figure 3: Growth of transformed E.Coli strains onto a minimal medium plate and a complete medium plate both with chloramphenicol.
After incubation, growth was recorded on the complete medium plate on all three sections containing PCA. On the minimal medium
plate, the only growth recorded was where the MetE+ and PCA transformed therefore determining that our unknown mutation was
located in the MetE gene.