RglB facilitated cloning of highly methylated eukaryotic DNA: the human L1 transposon, plant DNA, and DNA methylated in vitro with human DNA methyltransferase.
AUTOR(ES)
Woodcock, D M
RESUMO
In vitro methylation of Bluescribe plasmid DNA (pBS) with human placental DNA methyltransferase to 6% 5-methylcytosine (mC) reduced transformation efficiencies in rglB+ host strains C600 and DS410 by almost 2 orders of magnitude. By contrast, the rglB- derivative of DS410 showed no reduction in transformation efficiency with methylation while the rglB- derivative of C600 was partially tolerant to methylation. Further, we show that the 1.8 kilobase (kb) and 1.2 kb KpnI fragments derived from the human L1 repeat have respectively 18.3% and 2.3% mC in vivo. Using these hyper- and hypo-methylated genomic segments ligated into the pBS plasmid, transformants with the highly methylated 1.8 kb L1 insert were recovered at 17 to 40 fold higher frequency with the rglB- host strains than with the rglB+ hosts. In addition, recombinant phage (lambda 2001) containing inserts of plant genomic DNA with 26.7% mC (from Petunia hybrida) when plated on rglB- hosts gave titres up to 222 times higher than on the rglB+ strains.
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