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Low copy BioBrick temperature sensitive standard vector

pSB8C15 is a BioBrick standard vector with low copy pSC101ts replication origin BBa_K864051 (~5 copies per cell) and chloramphenicol antibiotic resistance marker, especially usable for Lambda Red recombineering in E coli. The pSC101ts is a temperature sensitive pSC101 replication origin and propagates at 30ºC but not at at 42ºC [1]. The backbone sequence is based on pSB3T5, but the E coli His operon terminator BBa_B0053 has been replaced with the late terminator of the Salmonella phage P22.

Usage and Biology

This part is available as pSB8C15-pUCori-redq. This facilitates fast growth at 37° C, high plasmid yields and fast red color expression on transformation plates.

FLP recombinase

The pSB8X15 series are especially suitable for carrying systems where a temporary expression is desired, such as the Lambda Red recombineering system or recombinases like Cre or FLP, since the plasmids can be removed afterwards by incubation at 42°C.

Origin switching

Easy ori replacement is possible in the pSB8x15 backbones. The plasmid can have the pSC101ts ori cut out with NheI and MluI and another ori ligated in. To remove any religated pSC101ts, the transformants can be grown at 42° C.

More reliable recombineering

A problem when doing recombineering based chromosomal intergration is that some clones may take up the plasmid template instead of recombining the PCR fragment into the chromosome. When doing recombineering with pSB8x15 backbones, any such clones can be removed by incubation at 42° C.

Sequence and Features