An improved strategy for generating a family of unidirectional deletions on large DNA fragments
1Laboratoire d'Enzymologie du CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France.
Abstract:
A modification of the Barnes "kilo-sequencing" method is described. The procedure presented here makes it possible to obtain a series of nested deletions on large DNA fragments in only two days. It applies to double-stranded DNA, and thus can be used with plasmids as well as the M13mp series of bacteriophages. The main improvements are the use of a second restriction enzyme, which makes it possible to begin the deletions at any site on the DNA fragment, and the use of mung bean nuclease for trimming the DNA edges so that any restriction enzyme can be used. This method, using a pUC vector and sequencing on double-stranded DNA, would make it possible to read a DNA nucleotide sequence on both strands starting with only one construction.
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