摘要:
The invention provides plasmids of ColEl type parentage which have a temperature sensitive replication system such that the plasmid copy number in a given host cell may be controlled by a temperature shift. Such plasmids permit the use of temperature as a switch for controlling gene amplification and hence the production of corresponding protein in a host cell.
摘要:
The invention provides plasmids of ColEl type parentage which have a temperature sensitive replication system such that the plasmid copy number in a given host cell may be controlled by a temperature shift. Such plasmids permit the use of temperature as a switch for controlling gene amplification and hence the production of corresponding protein in a host cell.
摘要:
The problem of producing stable DNA plasmids of high copy number is solved by selecting mutants in which an altered repressor gene leads to high copy number replication. Translocatable elements in the plasmids are disabled in such a way that readthrough expression of heterologous DNA inserted in the plasmid will not continue into the translocatable elements or into elements which as a result of expression mediate rearrangement of said translocatable elements. Such plasmids may be used to produce a desired protein by introducing them into the genetic system of a host organism and permitting the organism to grow and phenotypically express its genotype. The invention also includes a method for removing 3' cutting restriction sites and maintaining 5' cutting restriction sites in DNA comprising cutting the DNA with appropriate restriction enzymes, treating the cut fragment with the enzyme DNA polymerase I in such a manner that 3' single stranded tails are removed and 5' single stranded tails are repaired to double stranded form, and blunt-end ligating the fragment to its previous orientation.