Split intein-mediated selection of cells containing two plasmids using a single antibiotic

Engineering cell lines often requires multiple plasmids with different selection markers. Here the authors present SiMPl, a method based on rationally engineered split enzymes which get reconstituted via intein-mediated protein splicing to maintain two plasmids using a single antibiotic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Navaneethan Palanisamy, Anna Degen, Anna Morath, Jara Ballestin Ballestin, Claudia Juraske, Mehmet Ali Öztürk, Georg A. Sprenger, Jung-Won Youn, Wolfgang W. Schamel, Barbara Di Ventura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12911-1