Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
Type
Blog Post
... 101 blog, we reviewed the salient features of several popular strains of E. coli for DNA propagation....DE3)
F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3)
General protein expression
BL21 (DE3) pLysS*
Chloramphenicol...ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm rne131 (DE3)
General expression; not recommended for toxic proteins
...lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm araB::T7RNAP-tetA
General protein expression
BLR (DE3)
Tetracycline
RecA-deficient...miniTn10--TetS)2 [dcm] R(zgb-210::Tn10--TetS)
General protein expression
m15 pREP4*, **
Kanamycin ...induction system. The DE3 lysogen expresses T7 RNA polymerase (RNAP) from the bacterial genome under control...overexpression?
The strains described above should generate sufficient expression levels for most purposes...