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      PCR-synthesis of marker cassettes with long flanking homology regions for gene disruptions in S. cerevisiae.

      Yeast (Chichester, England)
      Base Sequence, Genetic Markers, Genome, Fungal, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genetics, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Transformation, Genetic

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          A PCR-method for fast production of disruption cassettes is introduced, that allows the addition of long flanking homology regions of several hundred base pairs (LFH-PCR) to a marker module. Such a disruption cassette was made by linking two PCR fragments produced from genomic DNA to kanMX6, a modification of dominant resistance marker making S. cerevisiae resistant to geneticin (G418). In a first step, two several hundred base pairs long DNA fragments from the 5'- and 3'- region of a S. cerevisiae gene were amplified in such a way that 26 base pairs extensions homologous to the kanMX6 marker were added to one of their end. In a second step, one strand of each of these molecules then served as a long primer in a PCR using kanMX6 as template. When such a LFH-PCR-generated disruption cassette was used instead of a PCR-made disruption cassette flanked by short homology regions, transformation efficiencies were increased by at least a factor of thirty. This modification will therefore also help to apply PCR-mediated gene manipulations to strains with decreased transformability and/or unpredictable sequence deviations.

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          8904338
          10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19960315)12:3<259::AID-YEA901>3.0.CO;2-C
          10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19960315)12:3<259::AID-YEA901>3.0.CO;2-C

          Chemistry
          Base Sequence,Genetic Markers,Genome, Fungal,Molecular Sequence Data,Polymerase Chain Reaction,Saccharomyces cerevisiae,genetics,Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid,Transformation, Genetic

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