Amplification of 5′RLM-RACE products was performed (1× High Fidelity PCR buffer, 0.6 µM GeneRacer 5′ primer, 0.2 µM of the gene specific primer (electronic supplementary material, table S1), 200 µM dNTPs, 1 mM MgSO4, 3% DMSO and 0.5U Platinum Taq DNA Polymerase High Fidelity) followed by a nested PCR, using 1 µl of the PCR product in a 50 µl reaction (1× High Fidelity PCR buffer, 0.2 µM GeneRacer 5′ nested primer, 0.2 µM of the nested gene specific primer (electronic supplementary material, table S1), 200 µM dNTPs, 1 mM MgSO4 and 0.5U Platinum Taq DNA Polymerase High Fidelity).
PCR products were amplified with a Phusion High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (New England Biolabs, Massachusetts, USA) and cloned using a Zero Blunt TOPO PCR Cloning Kit (Invitrogen, California, USA).
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