22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
...Updated mini-transposon vector for bacterial mutagenesis or gene targeting
Victor de Lorenzo's lab...mini-Tn5 vector that can be used to generate random mutagenesis libraries or to insert heterologous genes, reporters...this vector, called pBAM1, by conducting random mutagenesis in the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida and ...three dimensional structure of GFP, its brighter mutant S65T-GFP, and the subsequent biochemical characterization...proteins are derived from the Timer protein - a mutant of the fluorescent protein dsRed that changes irreversibly...recombination template vectors, to perform multiple site mutagenesis and create complex fusion or recombination vectors...The group further optimized Chrimson through mutagenesis (K176R) to improve the otherwise slow off-kinetics...