Heliyon (Jun 2023)

Fast construction of SARS-CoV-2 associated plasmid library using parallel cloning method

  • Fan Meng,
  • Jiao Guo,
  • Shan Wang,
  • Changhui Zhang,
  • Xuehui Li,
  • Yanjuan Chen,
  • Qiuli Shi,
  • Liang Shao,
  • Rundong Zhang,
  • Ganggang Wang,
  • Dan Su

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 6
p. e17364

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has had a significant impact on global health. To address the urgent need for plasmids containing SARS-CoV-2 sequences in research, we have developed a high-throughput FastCloning platform for the construction of associated plasmids. Our platform uses a FastCloning method to construct a plasmid library from 29 ORFs of the virus and 20 commonly used vectors in the lab. The library contains 536 recombinant vectors, with a highly positive clone success rate of 92.4%. Our study provides a rapid and efficient approach to constructing a large plasmid library for SARS-CoV-2 research.

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