Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
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...IPTG. T7 RNAP is then available to transcribe the gene of interest from a T7 promoter on the plasmid. Many...::T7 gene1 [lon] ompT gal sulA11 R(mcr-73::miniTn10--TetS)2 [dcm] R(zgb-210::Tn10--TetS)
General protein...cytosine within a particular sequence.
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Table...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...overexpression?
The strains described above should generate sufficient expression levels for most purposes...