BL21 Codon-plus

[Michael L. Sullivan]

I've used the "RIL" cells.  For my protein, there were a lot of rare Arg
codons.  The cells helped a bit, increasing protein expression by about 2
fold (I went from about 1 mg/l to 2 mg/l).  Sorry, not sure about the
answer to your other question.  Perhaps the empirical approach is the best,
i.e. try both types of cells.

Mike



>Hi everyone,
>After many efforts, we are not still able to express our recombinant
>human protein in E. coli. so we are thinking to switch to codon-plus
>strain.
>Someone tried the BL21 codon plus (DE3) strain from Stratagene?


>
>Another question: there are 2 strains with different tRNAs:
>both have the AGA/AGG tRNA but
>RP posses the CCC tRNA
>RIL posses the AUA and CUA tRNAs
>
>In my gene I have 6 CCC codons and 4 AUA + 3 CUA codons;
>do you think it's better to overcome the 6CCC problem (RP strain)
>or the 4AUA+3CUA problem?
>In other words are more problematic 6 unusals codons of the
>same type or 7 unusal codons of different types?
>
>Thank you for your attention.
>
>Bye
>
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Michael L. Sullivan, Ph.D

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