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Plasmid construction by SLIC or sequence and ligation-independent cloning
Ryan E Hill1, Julian J Eaton-Rye
1Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 8, 2014
Abstract:
Sequence and ligation-independent cloning (Nat Methods 4:251-256, 2007) is a powerful tool for the construction of multi-fragment complex plasmids in a simple and efficient manner. Plasmids consisting of 6-7 DNA fragments can be assembled in a single day, with additional 2 days for screening and extraction. SLIC requires PCR products with overlapping regions of 30-40 bp at the 5' and 3' ends, T4 DNA polymerase, and an optional RecA protein for construction.

