When that happens to me (not that I would admit it), I do exactly as Michael
says in (1), but first of all, I give the plate a good "wipe" with a yellow
bunsen flame. Idea is to kill as much of the fungus as possible before
picking the mess. Greatly increases your YRG2:beast ration. And the yeast is
somewhat protected from the flame by the fungus on top of it.
Have success!
Klaus
"Michael Andres McMurray" <mmcmurra at u.washington.edu> wrote in message
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> I would think the easiest way to separate the contaminating fungus from
> the desired one would be either to (1) take a glob of cells from the
> master plate that contains as many Saccharomyces cells per fungal mess as
> possible, resuspend it in some sterile water, dilute it and plate for less
> than 20 single colonies per plate. If you can get the single cells spread
> out far enough and if the ratio of contaminant to YRG2 is low enough (and
> you could use less or more than 20 to deal with this), you
> should be able to get individual YRG2 colonies free of contamination --
> just streak them to a new plate as soon as you can tell what kind of
> colony they are!
>> Alternatively, (2) you could take a glob as in (1) and streak it for
> single colonies on a new plate, but before you let it grow
> use a micromanipulator and a dissection microscope to physically pull off
> single Saccharomyces cells and transfer them to a new plate, one by one to
> get a few different colonies. Then streak for singles again to make sure
> the resulting colonies are pure.
>> Hope this helps!
> Michael
>> On 1 Aug 2000, Dan Riggs wrote:
>> > We have been conducting a protracted 2 hybrid screen and finally got a
> > positive signal by x-gal selection. Unfortunately, the master plate is
> > contaminated by a fungus which grows much faster than does yeast (on
> > triple drop out medium). The yeast strain we are using is YRG2 from
> > Stratagene, and its genotype doesn't suggest to me that one could expect
> > to plate it on some selection medium to rid the cells of the
> > contaminant. Does anyone have any advice?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dan Riggs
> >
>>> ---
>>
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