Begin by inoculating the control and recombination competent yeast strains from YPD plates into five milliliters of YPR medium, and grow the culture overnight at 30 degrees Celsius and 200 RPM. Next, scale up the culture by inoculating two milliliters into 100 milliliters of fresh YPR medium and growing it overnight at 30 degrees Celsius and 200 RPM. For each strain, dispense 1, 800 milliliters of autoclave yeast Peptone medium, and 200 milliliters of autoclave 20%raffinose solution into two 5 liter Erlenmeyer flasks.
Inoculate each yeast strain with 0.2 optical density at 600 nanometers in the respective medium, and incubate for about six hours at 200 RPM, or until the cells reach the desired 1.0 optical density. Add 200 milliliters of 2%galactose and 110 microliters of yeast mating factor alpha or YMFA simultaneously to arrest cells in the G1 phase and incubate it for two hours. Transfer the cell suspension into one liter centrifuge buckets and centrifuge the bucket at 6, 000 G and four degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
Discard the supernatant and resuspend the cell pellets in 10 to 15 milliliters of distilled water. Next, seal a 25 milliliter syringe with a lure plug and place it inside a 50 milliliter conical tube filled with water. Transfer the cell suspension to the syringe assembly.
Wash the centrifuge buckets with five milliliters of distilled water to collect the remaining cells. Then, centrifuge the assembly at 2, 397 G for 10 minutes at room temperature and discard the supernatant. Then remove the lure plug from the syringe and extrude the cells into liquid nitrogen to form cell spaghetti.
Lastly, transfer the frozen cell spaghetti into a 50 milliliter conical tube and store it at minus 80 degrees Celsius until further use.
