A robust system for production of minicircle DNA vectors

作者:Kay Mark A*; He Cheng Yi; Chen Zhi Ying
来源:Nature Biotechnology, 2010, 28(12): 1287-U96.
DOI:10.1038/nbt.1708

摘要

Minicircle DNA vectors allow sustained transgene expression in quiescent cells and tissues. To improve minicircle production, we genetically modified Escherichia coli to construct a producer strain that stably expresses a set of inducible minicircle-assembly enzymes, Phi C31 integrase and I-SceI homing endonuclease. This bacterial strain produces purified minicircles in a time frame and quantity similar to those of routine plasmid DNA preparation, making it feasible to use minicircles in place of plasmids in mammalian transgene expression studies.

  • 出版日期2010-12