T4 DNA Ligase
It plays a crucial role in DNA repair, replication, and recombination processes.
The enzyme is derived from the bacteriophage T4 and is widely used in molecular biology techniques, such as DNA cloning, library construction, and genetic engineering.
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SMRTbell templates were subjected to standard SMRT sequencing using an engineered phi29 DNA polymerase on the PacBio RS system according to manufacturer's protocol. The PacBio RS system continuously monitors zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs) in sets of 75000 at a time. Within each ZMW a single DNA polymerase molecule is attached to the bottom surface such that it permanently resides within the detection volume where it can be watched as it performs sequencing by synthesis. Within each chamber, Phospholinked nucleotides, each type labeled with a different colored fluorophore, are then introduced into the reaction solution at high concentrations that promote enzyme speed, accuracy, and processivity. Pulse calling, utilized a threshold algorithm on the dye weighted intensities of fluorescence emissions, and read alignments, achieved using a Smith-Waterman algorithm. Reads were filtered after alignment to remove low quality sequences derived from doubly-loaded ZMWs.
For level 2-2 cloning, two type IIS enzymes were required, BpiI and BsaI. The same protocol was used as described above except that 10 U and 2.5 U were used for the enzymes BpiI and BsaI, respectively. To optimize efficiency of the restriction-ligation for the final construct containing 11 transcription units (cL2-13*), a variation of this protocol was used as follows. The reaction mix was set up containing 20 U ligase, 5 U BpiI and 5 U BsaI, in a total reaction volume of 20 µl. The mix was incubated in a thermocycler with the following parameters: incubation for 2 minutes at 37°C, 5 minutes at 16°C, both steps repeated 45 times, followed by incubation for 5 minutes at 50°C and 10 minutes at 80°C. The reaction mix was transformed in E. coli chemically competent cells as described above.
To identify the locations of the bursa aurealis transposon insertions, 400 µl of TSB-Erm (5 µg/ml) was inoculated into 96-well plates using a 96-prong replicator. After overnight growth, the Wizard genomic DNA purification kit (Promega) was used to isolate genomic DNA from the cultures with the following modifications. Briefly, after centrifugation at 4,100 rpm for 5 min in a Sorvall (Newtown, CT) Legend tabletop centrifuge, supernatants were removed, the content of each well was resuspended in 110 µl of 50 mM EDTA (pH 8.0), and 5 µl of 10-mg/ml lysostaphin was added. After incubation at 37°C for 60 min, 600 µl of Nuclei Lysis solution was added and the genomic DNA was collected according to the manufacturer’s instructions. After resuspension in Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer, approximately 2 µg of genomic DNA was digested with 10 units of AciI (New England Biolabs) at 37°C for 4 h. AciI was then heat inactivated at 65°C for 30 min; T4 DNA ligase (200 U) (Monserate Biotechnologies, San Diego, CA) was then added to each sample and ligated overnight at 4°C, followed by heat inactivation at 65°C for 30 min. DNA fragments spanning the bursa aurealis insertion sites in each sample were amplified using the Buster (5′ GCTTTTTCTAAATGTTTTTTAAGTAAATCAAGTACC 3′) and Martn-ermR (5′ AAACTGATTTTTAGTAAACAGTTGACGATATTC 3′) primer set. PCR conditions included 30 cycles with an annealing temperature of 63°C and an extension time of 3 min. Once amplified, samples of the DNA products were separated in a 1% agarose gel by electrophoresis, and the remainder was purified for sequencing using Exo-SAP-IT (GE Healthcare) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Finally, determination of the nucleotide sequences of the genomic DNA flanking the transposons was achieved using the Buster primer at the DNA Microarray and Sequencing Core Facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
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Each plasmid containing EBP, CalM, or a Cys-incorporated block was used to prepare genes for the fusion polypeptide libraries of EBP[G1A3F2]n-CalM-EBP[G1A3F2]n with Cys blocks at both ends. A plasmid vector harboring an EBP gene was digested and dephosphorylated with 10 U of XbaI, 10 U of BseRI and 10 U of FastAP, a thermosensitive alkaline phosphatase, in CutSmart buffer for 30 minutes at 37° C. The restricted plasmid DNA was purified using a PCR purification kit, and then was eluted in 40 μl of distilled and deionized water. A total of 4 μg of the CalM gene was digested with 10 U of XbaI and 15 U of AcuI in the CutSmart buffer for 30 minutes at 37° C. to prepare the CalM gene as an insert, followed by separation using agarose gel electrophoresis and purification using a gel extraction kit. A ligation reaction was performed by incubating 90 pmol of the purified insert with 30 pmol of the linearized vector in T4 DNA ligase buffer containing 1 U of T4 DNA ligase for 30 minutes at 16° C. The product was transformed into Top10 chemically competent cells, then the cells were plated on a SOC plate supplemented with 50 μg/ml of ampicillin. Transformants were initially screened by a diagnostic restriction digest on an agarose gel and further confirmed by DNA sequencing as described above.
For WGS sequencing, the DNA was fragmented to 500–800 bp in size with Covaris E220 and selected using AMPure XP beads to obtain fragments around 200 bp. Then the fragments were end-repaired and A-tailed with T4 DNA polymerase (NEB), T4 polynucleotide kinase (NEB), and rTaq DNA polymerase (Takara). After that, the DNA were amplified for eight PCR cycles and sequenced on the BGISEQ-500 platform with a layout of pair-end 100 bp.
For PacBio sequencing, 8 μg of extracted genomic DNA was sheared and concentrated with AMPure PB beads. The libraries were constructed using the Pacific Biosciences SMRTbell express template prep kit 2.0, and the constructed libraries were selected on a BluePippin system for molecules longer than 20 kb. Finally, the templates were primer annealed and bound to polymerases with the DNA/Polymerase Binding Kit, and sequencing was carried out on the Pacific Biosciences Sequel II platform for 15 h.
For Hi-C library construction, gonad tissue was dissociated, and cells were collected and crosslinked with 1% formaldehyde (Sigma) and 0.2M glycine (Sigma). After that, the fixed powder was resuspended in nuclei isolation buffer and then incubated in 0.5% SDS for 10 min at 62°C. Then the reaction was quenched with 10% Triton X-100 (Sigma) and the nuclei were collected by centrifugation. Then the DNA was digested with MboI (NEB), and the overhang was filled and biotinylated before ligated by T4 DNA ligase (NEB). Before library construction, the DNA was purified using the CTAB method. The purified DNA was sheared, and biotin-containing fragments were captured on streptavidin-coated beads using Dynabeads MyOne Streptavidin T1 (Invitrogen). Then the fragments were end-repaired and linked with adaptors before eight cycles of PCR reaction with KAPA HiFi HotStart ReadyMix (Kapa Biosystem). After that, the Hi-C library was sequenced with BGISEQ-500 platform with a layout of pair-end 100 bp.
For RNA sequencing, tissue-specific total RNA was extracted from tissues of adductor muscle, mantle, foot, and gill with TRIzol (Invitrogen), and the reverse transcription was performed with HiscriptII (Vazyme) to generate cDNA. The cDNA fragments were sequenced on the BGISEQ-500 platform with a layout of pair-end 100 bp.
For metagenome sequencing, selected DNA fragments were end-repaired, A-tailed, and amplified, and the libraries were sequenced on the BGISEQ-500 platform with a layout of pair-end 100 bp. In addition, DNA of gill tissues for Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long-read sequencing was extracted from gill tissues of a third individual with the Blood & Cell Culture DNA Midi Kit (Qiagen), and the library were prepared and sequenced with the Oxford Nanopore Ligation Sequencing Kits SQK-LSK109 according to the manufacturer’s instructions.