Product Data Sheet

Recovery

1. Obtain an LB agar plate with the appropriate antibiotic.
2. Using a sterile pipette tip, touch the bacteria growing within the punctured area of the stab culture. (A sterilized wire loop or sterile toothpick can be used in place of a sterile pipette tip.)
3. Run this tip lightly over a section of the plate, as shown in the figure, to create streak #1.
4. Using another sterile pipette tip, pass through streak #1 and spread the bacteria over a second section of the plate, to create streak #2.
5. Using a third sterile pipette tip, pass through streak #2 and spread the bacteria over the last section of the plate, to create streak #3.
6. Grow overnight in a 37 ^o C incubator (unless a different growth temperature is indicated on the plasmid datasheet).