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MegaGate: A toxin-less gateway molecular cloning tool

Authors :
Christian Kramme
Alexandru M. Plesa
Helen H. Wang
Bennett Wolf
Merrick Pierson Smela
Xiaoge Guo
Richie E. Kohman
Pranam Chatterjee
George M. Church
Source :
STAR Protocols, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 100907- (2021)
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2021.

Abstract

Summary: Gateway cloning employs the use of the ccdb toxin and has low colony numbers, making it difficult to apply at scale to clone libraries of cDNA vectors. In this protocol, we describe MegaGate, a toxin-less Gateway technology capable of robust cDNA library cloning that is efficient, cheap, and scalable. MegaGate eliminates the ccdb toxin used in Gateway recombinase cloning and instead utilizes meganuclease-mediated digestion to eliminate background vectors during cloning and is 99.8% efficient with high colony numbers.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Kramme et al. (2021).

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26661667
Volume :
2
Issue :
4
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
STAR Protocols
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.99dee1bbf11742c6ba2fe81e3077a01a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100907