The systematic structural analysis of many target proteins involves generating expression clones in high throughput. This requires robust laboratory procedures and benefits from laboratory automation and data management systems. This chapter gives an overview of the Protein Structure Factory, a structural genomics project focusing on human proteins, and presents the authors' method for cloning bacterial expression clones with the restriction enzymes BamHI and NotI and compatible enzymes. PCR amplification, product purification and digestion and vector ligation were adapted to the 96-well microtiter plate format.
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The authors thank Janett Tischer for excellent technical assistance and critical reading of the manuscript. This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the National Genome Network programme (NGFN FKZ 01GR0472) and the SFB 633 of the German Research Foundation.
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Sievert, V., Ergin, A., Büssow, K. (2008). High Throughput Cloning with Restriction Enzymes. In: Kobe, B., Guss, M., Huber, T. (eds) Structural Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 426. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-058-8_9
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