B834(DE3)pLysS Competent Cells - Novagen

B834 is the parental strain for BL21 (1). These protease-deficient hosts are methionine auxotrophs and allow high specific-activity labeling of target proteins with ³⁵S-methionine and selenomethionine for crystallography (2).

DE3 indicates that the host is a lysogen of λDE3, and therefore carries a chromosomal copy of the T7 RNA polymerase gene under control of the lacUV5 promoter. Such strains are suitable for production of protein from target genes cloned in pET vectors by induction with IPTG.

pLysS strains express T7 lysozyme, which further suppresses basal expression of T7 RNA polymerase prior to induction, thus stabilizing pET recombinants encoding target proteins that affect cell growth and viability.

Genotype: F^-ompT hsdS_B(r_B^- m_B^-) gal dcm met (DE3) pLysS (Cam^R)

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B834 host strains are methionine auxotrophs that allows high specific activity labeling of target proteins with 35S-methionine. T7 lysozyme expression suppresses basal T7 expression.

1. Wood, W. B. (1966) J. Mol. Biol. 16, 118–133.

2. Leahy, D. J., Hendrickson, W. A., Aukhil, I., and Erickson, H. P. (1992) Science 258, 987–991.

0.4 ml1 mlComponent

•2 × 0.2 ml5 × 0.2 mlB834(DE3)pLysS Competent Cells

•2 × 2 ml4 × 2 mlSOC Medium

•2 ng2 ngTest Plasmid

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