MEDIA AND SOLUTIONS REQUIRED FOR ROUTINE ES CELL CULTURE
Media Used
To prepare 100 ml medium
DMEM | 80 ml |
FCS | 15 ml |
Non-essential amino acids (100x) | 1 ml |
Pen/strep (5,000 1U/ml, 5000 ug/ml) | 1 ml |
L-Glutamine 200 mM | 1 ml |
Nucleosides stock (100x) | 1 ml |
BME 0.1M | 0.2 ml |
Dulbecco's Modification of Eagles Medium (DMEM)
1 x without L-glutamine with 4.5 g/L Glucose. Store at 4�
Cytosystems 500 ml Cat. No. 11.016.0500V
Non essential amino acids 100x
Cytosystems 100 ml Cat No. 21-145-0100V. Store at 4�
Penicillin - streptomycin (5,000 1U/ml, 5,000 ug/ml)
Cytosystems 100 ml Cat No. 21-140-0100V. Store at -20�
Foetal Calf Serum (FCS)
Needs to be tested for ability to support growth of ES Cells. Serum should be stored frozen and heat inactivated before use by heating at 56� for 30 mins. It may be stored at 4� following inactiavation. The heat inactivation removes complement activity which along with natural heterophile antibodies, may be toxic for ES cells.
100 x Nucleoside Stock
To prepare 100 ml (100x)
Adenosine | 80 mg | 3mM | Sigma A 4036 |
Guanosine | 85 mg | 3mM | Sigma G 6264 |
Cytidine | 73 mg | 3mM | Sigma C 4654 |
Uridine | 73 mg | 3mM | Sigma U 3003 |
Thymidine | 24 mg | 1mM | Sigma T 1895 |
Add to 100 ml Travenol water and dissolve by warming to 37�. Filter sterilize and aliquot while warm. Store at 4� for months. The nucleosides will come out of solution. Warm to 37� before use to re-solubilize. Solution seems to be stable at 4 C.
Other solutions required.
- 1 x Dulbecco's Phosphate Buffered Salt Solution (PBS) without calcium and magnesium.
Cytosystems | 100 ml | 11.075.0100V | |
500 ml | 11.075.0500V |
- Trypsin 2.5% Cytosystems 100 ml 21-159-0100V
- Trypsin - EDTA (1:250) Cytosystems (0.05% Trypsin) 100 ml 21-160-0100V
Solutions to be made up
PBS/EGTA (0.5 mM)
To 100 mls of PBS add 1 ml of 0.05M stock EGTA (Sigma E4378) to give a final concentration of 0.5 mM.
Stock EGTA in H20 0.05M add conc. NaOH to dissolve
Trypsin 0.25%.
To 20 mls Cytosystems Trypsin/EDTA 0.05%, add 1.6 mls 2.5% Trypsin
0.1% Gelatin in PBS
To 100 mls PBS add 0.1 gm Gelatin Sigma G-1890 and autoclave
0.1M 2 - mercaptoethanol (�E) Sigma M-6250
Add 0.1 ml �E (14.4M) to 14.3 mls PBS and filter through a 0.2 uM ACRODISC. Store at -20� for up to one month.
LIF (if no feeders are used)
LIF ESGRO AMRAD (murine Lif in PBS/BSA solution) 1 ml ampoule
107 U/ml. Dilute 1/100 in DMEM 10% FCS, aliquot into 10 x 10 ml tubes,
store at -20� until use.
107 U/ml dilute 1/100 = 105 U/ml. (100 x conc)
Dilute 1/100 for use = 1000 U/ml