High-efficiency yeast artificial chromosome fragmentation vectors
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Published on: December 15, 2012
1Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Abstract:
Chromosome fragmentation vectors (CFVs) are used to create deletion derivatives of large fragments of human DNA cloned as yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs). CFVs target insertion of a telomere sequence into the YAC via homologous recombination with Alu repetitive elements. This event results in the loss of all YAC sequences distal to the site of integration. A new series of CFVs has been developed. These vectors target fragmentation to both Alu and LINE human repetitive DNA elements. Recovery of deletion derivatives is ten- to 20-fold more efficient with the new vectors than with those described previously.
