Nonautonomous retrotransposons encode no protein • Alu elements contain the sequence AGCT that is recognized by the restriction enzyme Alu. I. They are present in up to a million copies in the human genome. • They can not transpose by themselves. Instead they take advantage of the retrotransposition machinery of other elements, such as LINEs.
Cut lactose and x-gal
Reporter gene
Fusion protein
Fusion protein The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is composed of 238 amino acids (26. 9 k. Da), originally isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light.
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GFP derivatives In 2008, Osamu Shimomura, Marty Chalfie and Roger Tsien (錢永建) won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
重組蛋白質 在寄主(host)細胞中的表達 基因 優點 • 產量大 • 操作易 質體 染色體 4, 000 kb E. coli 缺點 • no post-translation modification • inclusion body • not secrete protein
重組蛋白質 在寄主細胞中的表達 E. coli 缺點 not secrete protein gram-positive bacteria B. subtilis proteases limited vector & promoter “signal” has not found yet