Simple, Fast, and Efficient Cloning of PCR Products with TOPO® Cloning Vectors

Cloning vectors for expression-PCR products.

Cloning PCR products into T vectors.

MATERIALS Bacteriophage T4 DNA ligase T vector Target DNA (25 μg/ml), amplified by PCR When the PCR mixture contains more than one or two bands of amplified DNA, purify the target fragment by electrophoresis through low melting/gelling temperature agarose (please see Recovery of DNA from Low-meltingtemperature Agarose Gels: Organic Extraction). If not purified by gel electrophoresis, PCR-amplif...

Hetero-stagger cloning: efficient and rapid cloning of PCR products.

A variety of methods have been developed for cloning PCR products, including blunt-end cloning (1), restriction cut back (2), ligation-independent cloning (3), uracil DNA–glycosylase (UDG) treatment of uracil-containing deoxyoligonucleotide primers (4,5) and TA cloning (6–8). Blunt-end cloning of PCR products often requires treatment of PCR products to polish the ends (9). Even with treatments,...

Directional cloning of PCR products.

INTRODUCTION This protocol is for directional blunt-end cloning of DNA fragments. The target DNA is PCR-amplified, 3'-extensions are polished with Pfu DNA polymerase, and the amplicon is ligated to a blunt-ended plasmid DNA. The products of the ligation reaction are used to transform competent Escherichia coli. A restriction enzyme is added to the ligation reaction (Liu and Schwartz 1992) to re...

An Efficient Method to Prepare PCR Cloning Vectors

An improved procedure for preparing PCR cloning vectors was developed. This procedure includes the incorporation of adapters to create XcmI restriction enzyme sites in pBluescript II SK(+) vectors, digestion with XcmI followed by further digestion of the small fragment produced by XcmI digestion with additional enzymes, and purification with PCR purification kits. Using this procedure, PCR clon...