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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 3, Issue 7, Pages 1202-1212Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.96
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- Japan Society for Promotion of Science
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Substrate-induced gene-expression screening (SIGEX) has been developed for isolating novel catabolic genes from environmental metagenomes, particularly genes that are difficult to obtain using conventional gene-cloning methods. In SIGEX, restriction enzyme-digested metagenome fragments are ligated into an operon-trap vector (e.g., p18GFP), and a library is constructed in a liquid culture by transforming a cloning host (e.g., Escherichia coli). The library is subjected to a substrate-dependent gene-induction assay, and positive cells are selected by detecting activity of a co-expressed marker (e.g., GFP) encoded in the vector. High-throughput screening is possible if fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) is used to select GFP-expressing cells. The abovementioned SIGEX procedure requires similar to 17 d. In this protocol, a widely applicable SIGEX scheme is presented along with typical experimental results.
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