Article
Construct for high-level expression and low misincorporation of lysine for arginine during expression of pET-encoded eukaryotic proteins in Escherichia coli.
BioTechniques - 1 Nov 1999
You J, Cohen R E, Pickart C M
Abstract excerpt
The arginine codon AGA is rarely used in E. coli but is common in eukaryotic genes. Prior studies have shown that the low level of tRNA(UCUArg) can lead to low expression and misincorporation of lysine for arginine, during expression of genes containing AGA codons in E. coli. The chloramphenicol-selectable plasmid pJY2 is designed to facilitate the expression of such genes cloned into pET vectors: it encodes T7...
Topics
- Arginine
- Bacterial Proteins
- Biopolymers
- Escherichia coli
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Lysine
- Mass Spectrometry
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Polyubiquitin
- Protein Biosynthesis
