商品编号


GWB-7676BB



品牌


GenWay



公司


GenWay



公司分类


Molecular Biology Products



Size

Kit

商品信息

Description:
The flashBAC system is a new platform technology for the production of recombinant baculoviruses. Most importantly, flashBAC has been specifically designed to remove the need to separate recombinant virus from parental virus by plaquepurification or any other means. The production of recombinant virus has been reduced to a one-step procedure in insect cellsand is thus fully amenable to high throughput and automated production systems.

The flashBAC technology has been developed by the same team that produced the triple-cut, linear DNA (BacPAK6) system that has been the stalwart of the baculovirus expression system for the past 10 years. At the heart of flashBAC technology is an AcMNPV genome that lacks part of an essential gene (ORF 1629) and contains a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) at the polyhedrin gene locus, replacing the polyhedrin coding region. The essential gene deletion prevents virus replication within insect cells but the BAC allows the viral DNA to be maintained and propagated, asa circular genome, within bacterial cells. Circular viral DNA is then isolated from the bacterial cells and purified. This is the flashBAC DNA provided in this kit.

A recombinant baculovirus is produced by simply transfecting insect cells with flashBAC DNA and a transfer vector containing ‘the gene under investigation’. Homologous recombination within the insect cells (1) restores the function of the essential gene allowing the virus DNA to replicate and produce virus particles and (2) simultaneously inserts ‘the gene underinvestigation’ under the control of the polyhedrin gene promoter and removes the BAC sequence. The recombinant virus genome, with the restored essential gene, replicates to produceBV that can be harvested from the culture medium of the transfected insect cells (and forms a seed stock of recombinant virus). As it is not poss
IBL
e for non-recombinant virus to replicate there is no need for any selection system.

This one-step procedure greatly facilitates the high throughputproduction of baculovirus expression vectors via automated systems. However, it is also of benefit to the small research group just requiring one or a few recombinant baculoviruses prepared in individual dishes of cells.

The flashBAC system is back compat
IBL
e with all baculovirustransfer vectors based on homologous recombination in insect cells at the polyhedrin gene locus. This includes vectors using the polyhedrin promoter, dual, triple and quadruple expression vectors and those that use other gene promoters such as p10, ie1 etc. Examples include pBacPAK8/9, pAcUW31 and pBacPAK-His1/2/3 (
BD
Biosciences Clontech) but not vectors such as pFastBac?, which are designed for site-specific transposition in E. coli using the Bac-to-Bac? system (
Gibco
BRL).

The flashBAC system also maximises protein secretion and membrane protein targeting. Baculovirus genomes contain several auxillary genes, which are non-essential for replication in insect cell culture. One of these is chitinase (chiA), whichencodes an enzyme with exo- and endochitinase activity. In an infected insect, chitinase (together with cathepsin) facilitates host cuticle breakdown and tissue liquefaction at the very late stages of infection, so releasing the virus to infect more hosts. Confocal and electron microscopy observations of insect cells infected with AcMNPV have shown that chitinase is targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where it is densely packed in a para-crystalline array, severely compromising the function and efficacy of the secretory pathway. Deletion of chiA from flashBAC has improved the efficacy of the secretory pathwayand resulted in a greatly enhanced (up to 60-fold in some instances) yield of recombinant proteins that are secreted ormembrane targeted (in comparison with recombinant viruses that synthesise chitinase).



Advantages of the flashBAC system

? Simple to use
? One step production of recombinant virus in insect cells
? No steps needed to purify recombinant virus
? Amenable to high throughput and automated systems
? Maximises production of secreted and membrane-targeted proteins
? Back-compat
IBL
e with a huge range of transfer vectors.



Additional Information:




Name

FlashBAC - Baculovirus Expression System (5 reactions)



Related Product Names

FlashBAC - Baculovirus Expression System (5 reactions)



St
ABI
lity

Guaranteed 6 months



Storage

flashBAC DNA: Store at 4°C. Control transfer vector DNA (containing lacZ reporter gene):Store at -20°C.



Intended Use

Research Use Only