Abstract
A series of ColE1 and pSC101 cosmid vectors have been constructed suitable for cloning large stretches of DNA. All contain a single BamHI site allowing cloning of Sau3A., MboI, BglII, BclI, and BamHI-generated fragments. These vectors have the following characteristics: (i)they are relatively small (1.7-3.4 kb); (ii) the BamHI cloning site is flanked by restriction enzyme sites enabling direct cloning of unfractionated insert DNA without generating multiple insert or vector ligation products [Ish-Horowitz and Burke, Nucl. Acids Res. 9 (1981) 2989–2998]; (iii) two vectors (pHSG272 and pHSG274) contain a hybrid Tn5 Km R/G418 R gene which is selectable in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, making them suitable for transferring DNA into eukaryotic cells, and (iv) the different prokaryotic selectable markers available in the other vectors described facilitate cosmid rescue of the transferred DNA sequences from the eukaryotic cell: Cm R, Ap R, Km R (pHSG429), Cm R (pHSG439), colicin E1 immunity (pHSG250), (v) the cosmid pHSG272 was used successfully to construct a shuttle vector based on the BPVI replicon [Matthias et al., EMBO J. 2 (1983) 1487–1492].
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