Inventors:
Athan Kuliopulos - Cambridge MA
Christopher T. Walsh - West Newton MA
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
C12N 1509, C12N 1563, C12N 1570, C12N 1562
Abstract:
A method for producing a fusion peptide. A vector is provided with nucleic acid encoding a carrier peptide and at the 3' end of the nucleic acid, a unidirectional restriction endonuclease cleavage site recognized by a restriction endonuclease with the ability to create a non-palindromic 3-base overhang. The vector is cleaved with the restriction endonuclease to produce a cleaved vector. One or more nucleic acids encoding a desired peptide and having at least a 3-base overhang at each end configured and arranged for ligation with the cleaved vector is then ligated to the cleavage site.