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Roffi Grandiosa. Sajjad Ahmad. Muhilan Mahendhiran. Trish Krantz. Lucy Zulu. Akash SIkarwar. Mubashir Ehsan. Omar Gill. They can be packaged in lambda capsids for efficient injection into bacteria, but they also can exist as plasmids within a bacterial host. As much as 50kb of DNA can be carried in this way.
Bacterial Artificial Chromosome: The mapping and analysis of large complex eukaryotic genomes requires cloning vectors that can accommodate very large DNA fragments. In addition, since some human genes range from kb to over kb, vectors with large cloning capacities are useful in studying the organization of these genes. Recently, a number of vectors that use bacterial host cells have been developed. One of these vectors is based on the fertility plasmid F factor of bacteria and is called bacterial artificial chromosome BAC.
Because F factors can carry fragments of the bacterial chromosome up to 1Mb in length, they have been engineered to act as vectors for eukaryotic DNA and can carry inserts of about kb. BAC vectors carry the F factor genes for replication and copy number, and incorporate an antibiotic resistance marker and restriction enzyme sites for inserting foreign DNA to be cloned.
In addition, the cloning site is flanked by promoter sites that can be used to generate RNA molecules for the expression of the cloned gene, for use as probes in chromosome walking, and for DNA sequencing of the cloned insert. Shuttle vectors are used for experiments in which recombinant DNA is to be introduced into organisms other than E coli.
For example, the yeast-E. Like E coli cloning vectors, YEp24 has an ori sequence that allows it to replicate in E. YEp24 also contains the selectable marker URA3 a wild type yeast gene for an enzyme required for uracil biosysthesis. This marker enable yeast ura3 mutant host cells containing YEp24 to be identified. YEp24 also carries a yeast-specific sequence, the two-micron circle 2u , that allows it to replicate autonomously in a yeast cell.
Thus, YEp24 is able to replicate in both yeast and E. Not all shuttle vectors have the ability to replicate in the nonbacterial host. A cloned gene is not always expressed in the host cell without further modification of the recombinant vector. To be transcribed, the recombinant gene must have a promoter that is recognized by the host RNA polymerase. Translation of its mRNA depends on the presence of leader sequences and mRNA modifications that allow proper ribosome binding.
These are quite different in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, a prokaryotic leader must be provided to synthesize eukaryotic proteins in bacterium. Finally, introns in the eukaryotic genes must be removed because the prokaryotic host will not excise them after trascription of mRNA; a eukaryotic protein is not functional without intron removal prior to translation. Thus, before a specific RNA or protein product can be produced in a particular host cell, a suitable DNA construct must be prepared.
The expression system is composed of an expression vector and a specific host cell. Expression vectors usually consist of small, circular plasmids specifically designed with several key features that allow a foreign gene inserted into the plasmid to be expressed in the host cell.
Important elements of the plasmid include: 1. The most widely used expression vectors for E. A typical prokaryotic expression vector is represented in the following diagram: These vectors are often derivatives of plasmid pBR and contain the necessary transcription and translation start signals.
Some expression vectors contain portions of the lac operon and can effectively regulate the expression of the cloned genes in the same manner as the operon. Somatostatin, the residue hypothalamic polypeptide hormone that helps regulate human growth, provides an example of useful cloning and protein production.
Besides the 42 bases coding for somatostatin, the polynucleotide contain a codon for methionine at the 5-prime end the N-terminal end of the polypeptide and two stop codons at the opposite end. To aid insertion into the plasmid vector, the 5-prime ends of the synthetic gene were extended to form single stranded sticky ends complementary to those formed by EcoRI and BamHI restriction enzymes. The synthetic gene was then spliced into the vector by taking advantage of its cohesive ends.
Finally, a fragment containing the initial part of the lac operon including the promoter, operator, ribosome binding site, and much of the beta-galactosidase gene was inserted next to the somatostatin gene. The plasmid now contained the somatostatin gene fused in the proper orientation to the remaining portion of the beta-galactosidase gene. After introduction of the chiremic plasmid into E. Tranaslation foremed a protein consisting of the total hormone polypeptide attached to the beta-galactosidase fragment by a methionine residue.
Cyanogen bromide cleaves peptide bonds at methinine residues and released the hormone. Once free, the polypeptide was able to fold properly become active. A similar approach was used to manufacture human insulin. A set of DNA clones derived from a single individual represents a library. Cloned libraries can represent an entire genome, a single chromosome, or a set of genes that are actively transcribed in a single cell type.
Ideally, a genomic library is a collection of clones that contains at least one copy of all the sequences represented in the genome.
One approach to obtaining a clone of a gene is to isolate it from a genomic library through the use of a specific probe. There are three ways to produce genomic libraries: 1. Genomic DNA is completely digested by a restriction enzyme, and the resulting DNA fragments are then cloned in a cloning vector. This technique does have a drawback. If the specific gene the researchers want to study contains restriction sites for the enzyme, the gene will be split into two or more fragments when the DNA is digested by the restriction enzyme.
In this case, the gene would then be cloned in two or more fragments. Thus, an entire library would need to contain a very large number of recombinant DNA molecules, and screening for the specific gene would be very laborious. The problems of genes split into fragments and the large number of recombinant DNA molecules can be minimized by cloning longer DNA fragments.
For example, the passage of the syringe needle will produce a population of overlapping DNA fragments. However, since the ends of the resulting DNA fragments have not been generated by cutting with restriction enzymes, additional enzymatic manipulations are necessary to add appropriate ends to the molecules for insertion into vector cloning sites. Another approach for producing DNA fragments of appropriate size for constructing a genomic library is to perform a partial digestion of the DNA with restriction enzymes that recognize frequently occurring four-base —pair recognition sequences.
Partial digestion means that only a portion of the available restriction sites is actually cut with the enzyme. The ideal result of partial digestion is a population of overlapping fragments representing the entire genome. Sucrose gradient centrifugation or agarose gel electrophoresis is then used to collect fragments of the desired size for cloning. Those fragments can be cloned directly since the ends of the fragments were produced by restriction enzyme digestion.
The recombinant DNA molecules produced by this method are used to transform E. In the case of plasmid and cosmid libraries, the transformants are plated on selective medium to clone the sequences.
Each colony that is produced almost always represents a different cloned DNA sequences since each bacterium that gave rise to a colony most likely contained a different recombinant DNA molecule. The aim of this method to produce a library of recombinant molecules that is as complete as possible. However, not all sequences of the eukaryotic genome are equally represented in such a library, for example, if the restriction sites in a particular region are very far apart or extremely close together, the chances of obtaining a fragment of clonable size are small.
In 1-f molecules , P is the probability desired, and f is the fractional proportion of the genome in a single recombinant DNA molecule. Suppose that we wish to prepare a library of human genome using a lambda phage vector. The human genome contains 3. This makes searching the library for a gene of interest very time consuming. One approach for reducing the searching time of large genomes is to make libraries of individual chromosomes in the genome.
In humans, this gives 24 different libraries, one each for 22 autosomes, the X and the Y. Then, if a gene has been localized to a chromosome by genetic means, researchers can restrict their attention to the library of that chromosome when they search for its DNA sequence.
Individual chromosomes of an organism can be separated if their morphologies and size are distinct enough, as is the case for human chromosomes. One procedure currently used to isolate large chromosomes individually is flow cytometry.
The stained chromosomes flow passed a laser beam connected to light detector. This system sorts and fractionates the chromosomes based on their differences in dye binding and resulting light scattering.
Approximately chromosomes can be sorted and isolated per second. Once the chromosomes have been fractioned, a library of each chromosome type can be made by cutting the chromosomal DNA with restriction enzymes and inserting the fragments into cloning vector. As a result of the application of these procedures, libraries of DNA prepared from all human chromosomes are now available to researches.
These cDNA molecules can be cloned. More typically, the entire mRNA population of a cell is isolated and a corresponding set of cDNA molecules is made and inserted into a cloning vector to produce a cDNA library.
Since a cDNA library reflects the gene activity of the cell type at the time the mRNAs are isolated, the construction and analysis of cDNA libraries is useful for comparing gene activities in different cell types of the same organism, because there would be similarities and differences in the clones represented in the cDNA libraries of each cell type.
In eukaryotes, mature mRNAs are processed molecules having no introns, so the sequences obtained are not equivalent to gene clones. So gene clones are much more informative than can cDNA clone, for example, on the presence and arrangement of introns, and on the regulatory sequences associated with gene.
However, the cloning of DNA is time consuming, involving the insertion of DNA into cloning vectors and typically the screening of libraries to detect specific DNA sequences. In the mid- s, the polymerase chain reaction PCR was developed and this has resulted it yet a new revolution in the way genes may be analyzed.
PCR is a rapid cell-free method for producing an extremely large number of copies of a specific DNA sequence from a DNA mixture without having to clone it, a process called amplification. In brief, the PCR procedure is as follows: 1. Denaturing the DNA to single strands by incubating at 94oC. Cool to C, depending on how well the base sequences of the primers matches the base sequence of the DNA and anneal the specific pair of primers primer A and primer B that flank the target DNA sequence.
Extend the primers with DNA polymerase. Repeat the heating cycle to denature the DNA to single strands and cooling to anneal new primers. Repeat the primer extension with Taq DNA polymerase. In each of the two double stranded molecules produced, one strand of unit length; that is, it is the length of the DNA between the 5-prime end of primer A and the 5-prime end of the primer B- the length of target DNA. The other strand of both molecules is longer than unit length. Repeat the denaturation of DNA and anneal the new primers.
Repeat the primer extension with Taq polymerase. This produces unit-length, double—stranded DNA. Note that it took three cycles to produce the two molecules of target-length DNA. Repeated denaturation, annealing, extension cycles results in geometric increase of the unit- length DNA. Amplification of longer-than- unit- length DNA occurs simultaneously, but only in a linear fashion. Starting with one molecule of DNA, one cycle of PCR produces two molecules, two cycles produces four molecules, and three cycles produces eight molecules, two of which are the target DNA.
A further ten cycles produces 1, copies 2 10 of the target DNA and in 20 cycles there will be 1,, copies 2 30 of the target DNA! Clean Architecture is essential reading for every software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager -- and for any programmer who aspires to these roles or is impacted by their work. Author : James D. Trying to find Student Workbook for Phlebotomy Essentials? Author : Ruth McCall Publisher : LWW Total Pages : "Designed to be used in combination with the fifth edition of the Phlebotomy essentials textbook as a valuable learning resource that will help the student master the principles of phlebotomy by reinforcing key concepts and procedures covered in the textbook.
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