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Nucleic Acids Research, 1980, Vol. 8, No. 9 2055-2065
© 1980

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Synthesis of part of a mouse immunoglobulin light chain in a bacterial clone

O. Amster*, D. Salomon*, O. Zemel*, A. Zamir*, E.P. Zeelon{dagger}, F. Kantor{dagger} and I. Schechter{dagger}

*Department of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel {dagger}Department of Chemical Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel

Received February 25, 1980. We have cloned double stranded cDNA sequences encoding a mouse immunoglobulin light chain (L-321) into the PstI site of the ß-lactamase gene of plasmid pBR322 by the oligo (dG)-oligo (dC) tailing procedure. Escherichia coli XI776 transformed by the recombinant plasmids were screened for the expression of L-321 antigenic determinants by a newly developed in situ radioimmunoassay. One out of seven transformants screened was found to synthesize an L-chain like protein. Each bacterial cell produces about 550 molecules of the L-chain sequence. Preferential segregation of the L-chain sequence into the periplasmic space suggests covalent attachment of the L-chain sequence to the N-terminal portion of ß-lactamase. Restriction mapping of the plasmid DNA Isolated from the positive clone indicated the presence of a DNA sequence coding for the entire constant region and extending into the variable region for a length corresponding to about 40 amino acid residues. The orientation of the cloned cDNA with respect to the plasmid DNA is compatible with the formation of a fused ß-lactamase-L-321 peptide.


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