What is the mechanism of IPTG induction for pET-P1B in BL21 E. coli cells?
IPTG is a molecular mimic of allolactose, a lactose metabolite that triggers transcription of the lac operon and therefore used to induce E.coli protein expression where the gene is under the control of lac operator .usually four gene of interest are in inserted into a commercial vector(pET vectors )are common that contains :
1.A gene coding for antibiotic resistance.
2.the lacl gene from lac operon that codes for the lac repressor.
3.Gene of interest is inserted just after the T7 promotor sequence,the lac operator dna sequence,and the ribosome binding site.
What is the mechanism of IPTG induction for pET-P1B in BL21 E. coli cells?
Answer the following questions: a) What is special about the E coli BL21(DE3)pLysS cells used for gene expression? b) In what structural form is the expressed gdhA gene synthesized in the E coli host cells? c) What physical attributes of SDS-PAGE gels allow the separation and molecular weight determination of polypeptides? d) Given the size of the gdhA gene of ~1362 bp, what is the theoretical size of the expressed protein? e) Does your answer from (d) agree with the...
E. coli strain BL21(DE3) was transformed with the pET30a+ plasmid containing the ilvC gene that encodes for E. coli KARI. The starter culture was incubated overnight in LB broth containing 50 µg/mL kanamycin at 37°C. The sample were already added IPTG and the OD600 reaches the 0.6-0.7 range. How to improve the purity and yield ?
The BL21(DE3) expression cells carry a λDE3 integration containing the T7-RNA polymerase gene. A) Why is the T7-RNA polymerase protein so specific with regard to the target genes it transcribes? B) Is this enzyme predicted to transcribe any E. coli genes? Why or why not?
To study the lac operon in E. coli, you added IPTG in the growth media, which is another analog of allolactose that is an inducer of the lac operon but is not metabolized by β-gal. You measured the activity of the enzyme β- galactosidase (β-gal) by X-gal. After mutagenesis (induce mutations) you find mutants that never turn blue, which DNA component(s) could produce such phenotype?
E. coli cells that are sensitive to ampicillin are mixed with many copies of a plasmid that has a gene for ampicillin resistance and then plated on medium containing ampicillin. What will happen next? 1.Only E. coli cells that have not taken up a plasmid will grow and form colonies. 2.only E. coli cells that have taken up a plasmid will grow and form colonies. 3.E. coli cells with and without a plasmid will grow and form colonies. 4.The plasmid...
2. Suppose you have six strains of E. coli. One is wild type, and each of the other five has a single one of the following mutations: lacZ, lacY, laď·0; and lach. For each of these six strains, describe the phenotype you would observe using the following assays. Explain your answers. [Notes: (1) IPTG is a colorless synthetic molecule that acts as an inducer of lac operon expression but cannot serve as a carbon source for bacterial growth because it...
cells bacteria) do not contain the F plasmid. Position the In E. coli, F cells (male bacteria) contain the F plasmid, whereas F labels below with the correct images of conjugation in E. coli. After conjugation, both cells are F and can conjugate with F" cells. One strand of the plasmid passes through the pilus and into the female cell An F pilus produced by the male cell contacts and binds to the cell wall of a female cell. The...
4. You have prepared a batch of competent E coli cells and found its transformation efficiency is 106 per μg plasmid DNA. A professional scientists prepared competent E. coli cells having a transformation efficiency of about 108 cells/ g plasmid DNA Calculate % score of your E. coli transformation efficiency (Τ.Ε.).
Expression of a heterologous protein in CHO cells and in an E. coli system produced proteins with the same molecular weight on SDS-PAGE. Subsequent in vitro bioactivity studies demonstrated high-level activity with the CHO cell-derived recombinant protein, but no bioactivity with the E. coli derived product. Explain this discrepancy, and propose an experiment to test your hypothesis
1. Explain the following Figure using 5-7 sentences that should include the purpose of LDH gene expression and whether the result shown in the figure was according to the expectation of the experiment. You may write on the blank side of this quiz (8 points) SPECIFIC ACTIVITY OF LDH IN IPTG SUPERNATANT 3.500 3.000 2.500 e 2.000 1.500 1.000 0.500 0.000 9 10 15 25 20 FRACTION NUMBER 2. Describe, in detail, the effect of IPTG on PET-LDH vector containing...