■ PAUSE POINT After PlasmidSafe treatment, the reaction can be stored at –20 °C for at least 1 week. viiiTransformation. Transform the PlasmidSafe-treated plasmid into a competent E. coli strain, according to the protocol supplied with the cells. We recommend the Stbl3 strain for quick transformation. Briefly, add 2 μl of the product from Step 5B(vii) into 20 μl of ice-cold chemically competent Stbl3 cells, incubate the mixture on ice for 10 min, heat-shock it at 42 °C for 30 s and return it immediately to ice for 2 min. Add 100 μl of SOC medium and plate it onto an LB plate containing 100 μg ml–1 ampicillin. Incubate it overnight at 37 °C. Note that it is not necessary to incubate competent cells for the outgrowth period after heat shock when you are transforming ampicillin- resistant plasmids.ixDay 2: inspect the plates for colony growth. Typically, there are no colonies on the negative control plates (ligation of BbsI-digested pSpCas9(BB) alone without annealed sgRNA oligo insert), and there are tens to hundreds of colonies on the pSpCas9(sgRNA) (sgRNA inserted into pSpCas9(BB)) cloning plates.
