An efficient method of constructing homologous recom binant baculovirus with PCR-amplified fragments

Baculovirus is a rod-shaped virus containing a large circular dsDNA genome with the size of 80—180 kb[1]. Baculoviruses have been used as insecticides for biological control of forest and agricultural pests[2]. In addition, baculovirus is of great interest as it can be used as efficient eukaryotic expression vector[3], surface display vector[4], and gene therapy vector[5]. Till April 2002, the complete genome sequences of 13 baculoviruses have been reported. The functional genomics has now…     

一种以PCR产物直接构建同源重组杆状病毒的方法

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An efficient method of constructing homologous recom binant baculovirus with PCR-amplified fragments

This paper describes a rapid method of constructing homologous recombinant baculovirus inE. coli with PCR-amplified fragments. By using this method, the traditional steps of constructing transfer vector are omitted. The method is based on phage λ red system which can promote the recombination between the homologous fragments with the length above 36 bp. Taking HaSNPV as an example, this paper describes the rapid recombination process by using chloramphenicol resistance gene (Cm ^R ) to replaceorf135 in HaSNPV genome. A pair of primers with length of 60 bp was synthesized, in which 40 bp was homologous to the each end sequence oforf135, and the rest 20 bp was homologous to the each end sequence ofCm ^R . By using these primers, a linear fragment containing the completeCm ^R gene between 40 bp of homologous arms oforf135 was generated by PCR with the plasmid pKD3 which containsCm ^R as the template. By transforming the linear fragment into theE. coli containing the bacterial artificial chromosome of HaSNPV and with the help of a plasmid expressing λ recombinase, the recombinants on which the homologue replacement had taken place were selected by chloramphenicol resistance. This method greatly shortens the process of constructing recombinant baculovirus since the process was performed inE. coli and does not need to construct transfer vectors. It can be further used for gene replacement and gene deletion of other large viral genomes.