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Protein Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 12, 1025-1030, December 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

A universal, vector-based system for nucleic acid reading-frame selection

Stefan Lutz1, Walter Fast2 and Stephen J. Benkovic3

Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University,414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA

The identification of a nucleic acid sequence’s correct reading frame has important implications for homology-independent protein engineering techniques such as incremental truncation and SCRATCHY. We report the development and experimental implementation of a general in-frame selection system, pSALect, a plasmid vector that utilizes two marker sequences flanking the DNA of interest. This dual selection approach overcomes inconsistencies observed with traditional C-terminally fused reporter proteins. In the pSALect vector, sequences of interest are positioned between an N-terminal Tat-signal sequence and a C-terminal ß-lactamase reporter. In-frame selection of the resulting three-domain protein is performed by growing colonies on ampicillin-containing plates, requiring full-length translation in order to link covalently the signal sequence to the lactamase for export into the periplasm. This dual selection scheme has been validated successfully using defined sequences of glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferases (GARTs) from Escherichia coli and human and, in contrast to C-terminal fusion systems, proved effective when applied towards the selection of in-frame constructs in an incremental truncation library.


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