Standardized cloning vectors for protein production and generation of large gene libraries in Escherichia coli

Autor: Bettina Rohweder, Florian Semmelmann, Christiane Endres, Reinhard Sterner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: BioTechniques, Vol 64, Iss 1, Pp 24-26 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1940-9818
0736-6205
DOI: 10.2144/000114628
Popis: Here, we modified the multiple cloning sites from commonly used expression vectors to create a new suite of cloning plasmids that simplify and speed up cloning procedures in Escherichia coli. Each of our standardized plasmids contains two BsaI restriction sites, allowing for highly efficient cloning of genes and bringing their expression under control of either a T7 (pET21a_BsaI, pET28a_BsaI, and pMAL-c5T_BsaI) or T5 promoter (pUR22 and pUR23). Another plasmid in our suite (pTNA_BsaI) allows for generation of large gene libraries containing >108 variants, which can be constitutively expressed in selection experiments using metabolic complementation of auxotrophic E. coli strains. Coupling restriction and ligation with the BsaI restriction enzyme minimizes hands-on time, while the need for only three different primers to clone a target gene into the six different vectors keeps overall cloning costs low.
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