关键词: 酿酒酵母, 菌落PCR, 转化子, 阳性克隆

Abstract: Yeast is an important host microorganism in genetic engineering and molecular cloning. However, because of the complex structure of their cell wall, ordinary colony PCR method has a low success rate. To address this problem, a fast, simple and efficient yeast colony PCR method was provided. In the novel method, a commercial available cell wall degradation enzyme, lyticase, was used to disrupt yeast cell wall and the resulted protoblast was then bursted by heating. Into the lysis mixture, other PCR components were added and PCR reactions were performed. In the current constructed method, the yeast cell lysis and PCR reaction were performed in one single PCR tube, which is convenient and easy to implement. The success rate of the novel method was relatively high compared to traditional ones. Using this method, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformants of exogenous endoglucanase(EG)were screened. Compared to PCR using genomic DNA, the results of colony PCR were consistent with those from genomic PCR. The results indicated that the novel method was of good stability, repeatability and suitable for the rapid screening of the S. cerevisiae transformants.

Key words: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Colony PCR, Transformant, Positive clone