Chapter title |
A Modified Gibson Assembly Method for Cloning Large DNA Fragments with High GC Contents
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Chapter number | 13 |
Book title |
Synthetic Metabolic Pathways
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7295-1_13 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7294-4, 978-1-4939-7295-1
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Authors |
Lei Li, Weihong Jiang, Yinhua Lu |
Abstract |
Gibson one-step, isothermal assembly method (Gibson assembly) can be used to efficiently assemble large DNA molecules by in vitro recombination involving a 5'-exonuclease, a DNA polymerase and a DNA ligase. In the past few years, this robust DNA assembly method has been widely applied to seamlessly construct genes, genetic pathways and even entire genomes. Here, we expand this method to clone large DNA fragments with high GC contents, such as antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters from Streptomyces . Due to the low isothermal condition (50 °C) in the Gibson reaction system, the complementary overlaps with high GC contents are proposed to easily form mismatched linker pairings, which leads to low assembly efficiencies mainly due to vector self-ligation. So, we modified this classic method by the following two steps. First, a pair of universal terminal single-stranded DNA overhangs with high AT contents are added to the ends of the BAC vector. Second, two restriction enzyme sites are introduced into the respective sides of the designed overlaps to achieve the hierarchical assembly of large DNA molecules. The optimized Gibson assembly method facilitates fast acquisition of large DNA fragments with high GC contents from Streptomyces. |
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