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| − | <p> Quick Screening: Screening for positive colonies following cloning is often a long and tedious task that often requires screening of many colonies. With the help of a unique feature on the Xpress vector, screening for a positive colony could be done in one single step. Xpress contains two selection markers: a kanamycin resistance gene and an ampicillin resistance gene. However, upon cloning of the insert into the appropriate spot in the multiple cloning sites, the kanamycin resistance gene will be knocked out. As such, successfully cloned colonies will only be resistant to ampicillin whereas colonies that have not been engineered properly will retain their kanamycin resistance. By streaking colonies on ampicillin and kanamycin plates, successful and unsuccessful colonies could be easily differentiated from one another as the successful colonies are expected to only grow on the ampicillin plates while all other negative colonies will show growth on both kanamycin and ampicillin plate. Thus, in this one simple step Xpress allows for fast screening of positive colonies. </p> | + | <p> <b>Quick Screening:</b> Screening for positive colonies following cloning is often a long and tedious task that often requires screening of many colonies. With the help of a unique feature on the Xpress vector, screening for a positive colony could be done in one single step. Xpress contains two selection markers: a kanamycin resistance gene and an ampicillin resistance gene. However, upon cloning of the insert into the appropriate spot in the multiple cloning sites, the kanamycin resistance gene will be knocked out. As such, successfully cloned colonies will only be resistant to ampicillin whereas colonies that have not been engineered properly will retain their kanamycin resistance. By streaking colonies on ampicillin and kanamycin plates, successful and unsuccessful colonies could be easily differentiated from one another as the successful colonies are expected to only grow on the ampicillin plates while all other negative colonies will show growth on both kanamycin and ampicillin plate. Thus, in this one simple step Xpress allows for fast screening of positive colonies. </p> |
| − | <p> Ease of Expression: <I>E. coli</i> has been an extremely powerful factory for producing proteins. Heterologous protein expression, however, could sometimes prove challenging. In particular, for proteins that are not suited to the natural expression conditions found in E. coli or for insoluble proteins that are difficult to produce. Xpress contains a GST tag which is a protein that is highly soluble and easily produced by <I>E. coli</i>. fusion of GST to heterologous proteins has proven to help with their expression as GST can act as a chaperone that helps with the proper folding of the protein [1]. By using the BamHI and HindIII restriction cloning, the insert of interest could be fused to the GST protein, allowing them to be more easily expressed in <I>E. coli</i>. Thus, with the help of a GST protein, Xpress is the optimal vector for the production of difficult proteins. </p> | + | <p> <b>Ease of Expression:</b> <I>E. coli</i> has been an extremely powerful factory for producing proteins. Heterologous protein expression, however, could sometimes prove challenging. In particular, for proteins that are not suited to the natural expression conditions found in E. coli or for insoluble proteins that are difficult to produce. Xpress contains a GST tag which is a protein that is highly soluble and easily produced by <I>E. coli</i>. fusion of GST to heterologous proteins has proven to help with their expression as GST can act as a chaperone that helps with the proper folding of the protein [1]. By using the BamHI and HindIII restriction cloning, the insert of interest could be fused to the GST protein, allowing them to be more easily expressed in <I>E. coli</i>. Thus, with the help of a GST protein, Xpress is the optimal vector for the production of difficult proteins. </p> |
===Sequence and Features=== | ===Sequence and Features=== | ||
<partinfo>BBa_K3945014 SequenceAndFeatures</partinfo> | <partinfo>BBa_K3945014 SequenceAndFeatures</partinfo> | ||
Latest revision as of 00:54, 22 October 2021
Xpress: T7-Compatible Expression Vector for E. coli with A GST solubility Tag
Usage and Biology
Xpress is an easy-to-use expression vector for E. coli BL21 system designed by the Schryvers’s lab. With a T7 promoter, this vector is easily inducible with IPTG or lactose. Two unique features set this expression vector apart from the other E. coli vectors: a quick screening system allows for fast cloning of genetic constructs into E. coli and a Glutathione S-transferase tag (GST) for easy expression of difficult proteins.
Design
Quick Screening: Screening for positive colonies following cloning is often a long and tedious task that often requires screening of many colonies. With the help of a unique feature on the Xpress vector, screening for a positive colony could be done in one single step. Xpress contains two selection markers: a kanamycin resistance gene and an ampicillin resistance gene. However, upon cloning of the insert into the appropriate spot in the multiple cloning sites, the kanamycin resistance gene will be knocked out. As such, successfully cloned colonies will only be resistant to ampicillin whereas colonies that have not been engineered properly will retain their kanamycin resistance. By streaking colonies on ampicillin and kanamycin plates, successful and unsuccessful colonies could be easily differentiated from one another as the successful colonies are expected to only grow on the ampicillin plates while all other negative colonies will show growth on both kanamycin and ampicillin plate. Thus, in this one simple step Xpress allows for fast screening of positive colonies.
Ease of Expression: E. coli has been an extremely powerful factory for producing proteins. Heterologous protein expression, however, could sometimes prove challenging. In particular, for proteins that are not suited to the natural expression conditions found in E. coli or for insoluble proteins that are difficult to produce. Xpress contains a GST tag which is a protein that is highly soluble and easily produced by E. coli. fusion of GST to heterologous proteins has proven to help with their expression as GST can act as a chaperone that helps with the proper folding of the protein [1]. By using the BamHI and HindIII restriction cloning, the insert of interest could be fused to the GST protein, allowing them to be more easily expressed in E. coli. Thus, with the help of a GST protein, Xpress is the optimal vector for the production of difficult proteins.
Sequence and Features
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