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Construction of Plant Expression Vector

Experiment Summary

This experiment introduces a method for constructing plant expression vectors.

Experimental Steps

1. Construction of plant justice expression vectors

(1) Double digestion of pTriplEx2-GhMT3a and plant expression vector pBI121 with SmaI and SacI.

(2) Perform agarose gel electrophoresis to recover the GhMT3a fragment and the pBI121 vector.

(3) Ligation: the ligation system was:

10×ligation Buffer2.5 μl
DNA fragment500 ng
pBI121 vector500 ng
T4 DNA ligase1 μl
ddH2O10 μl

Mix and ligate overnight at 4-16°C.

(4) Transformation: 5ul of ligation product was taken to transform E.coli DH5α receptor cells and the bacterial solution was coated on solid LB plates containing kanamycin.

(5) Recombinant screening: PCR and enzymatic identification of the grown colonies.

2. Preparation and transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens receptor cells

Preparation of receptor cells:

(1) Single colonies of Agrobacterium tumefaciens GV3101 were picked and inoculated in 5m1 LB liquid medium at 28°C and incubated overnight.

(2) Take 2 ml of culture into liquid LB and continue incubation until OD600 is about 0.5.

(3) The cultures were centrifuged for 5 min at 4°C, 5000 rpm in an ice bath for 30 min.

(4) Discard the supernatant, 10 ml of 0.1 M cold NaCl to suspend the bacterium, and centrifuge at 4°C, 5000 rpm, for 5 min.

(5) Discard the supernatant, 1 ml of 20 mM cold CaCl2 suspension, dispense into 200 ul/tube, freeze in liquid nitrogen and store at -80°C.

Transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens by freeze-thaw method:

(1) Melt the receptor cells on ice, add 1-2 ul of recombinant plasmid DNA, ice bath for 45 min, freeze in liquid nitrogen for 1 min and then water bath at 37°C for 5 min.

(2) Addition of 1 ml of LB without antibiotics, 28°C, 200 rpm, 3 h.

(3) 12000 rpm, centrifugation for 1 min to concentrate the bacterial broth, 100 ul back to lysate the bacteria.

(4) The bacterial solution was applied to solid LB medium containing 50 mg/l kanamycin at 28°C and incubated for 2-3 d.

* For research use only. Not intended for any clinical use.
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