K. lactis Protease Deficient Competent Cell Sampler
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New England Biolabs
Description
Chemically competent Kluyveromyces lactis cells are suitable hosts for expressing proteins that have exhibited proteolysis in the parental GG799 background (NEB #C1001S). Proteolysis of secreted heterologous proteins in K. lactis is most often casued by aspartyl poroteases that are present in the secretory pathway. In many cases, a single aspartyl protease causes the majority of the detrimental protein degredation. The Protease Deficient Competent Cell Sampler contains a wild-type GG799 strain, as well as four protease deficient K. lactis strains, each having selectable marker-free deletion of a specific secretory pathway aspartyl protease gene. Each strain can be transformed with any linearized pKLAC-series expression vector, permitting a comparison of heterologous proein quality and yield in each background.