Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Gibson Assembly® Cloning: Tips & Tricks for Primer Design

Gibson Assembly® Design Strategies 101: Primer Design & Homologous Overlaps


To help you create fragments with appropriately designed overlaps, SGI-DNA has gathered some helpful primer design strategies to keep in mind when using PCR to generate DNA fragments for your own Gibson Assembly® cloning reactions


Tip #1: Design ends with 20-80 bp homologous overlaps

Remember when designing your homologous overlap that the length varies based on fragment length and number. Use the wrong fragment length, and you risk your DNA fragment not assembling properly.

The table below shows the overlap length needed based on fragment length and number.



Tip #2: Consider the lengths and the numbers of fragments

The optimal length of the overlap region depends on the number and length of the fragments in the assembly reaction. Longer overlap regions will result in higher efficiency when working with multiple fragments or longer fragments.


Tip #3: Examine the sequence of your overlaps

Avoid tandem repeats, homopolymers, high secondary structure, and extremely high or low GC content. All of these can result in an efficient annealing of your overlapping regions. If you encounter these regions, you may want to consider selecting a different region.


Tip #4: Design PCR conditions appropriate for the Tm of your primers and fragment size

To get a single amplification product when generating overlaps by PCR, it may be necessary to optimize PCR amplification reactions when using PCR primers with long homologous overlap regions.


Tip #5: Add useful sequences to your overlaps when needed

Adding a restriction enzyme site to primers between the overlap region and the sequence-specific segment enables subsequent release of the insert from the vector. In this case, be certain that the restriction enzyme site introduced in the primers is not also present within the insert.


Want to make your primer design even easier? Check out the Gibson Assembly Primer® Tool.

Download the
Gibson Assembly® Cloning Guide for additional tips and tricks for performing Gibson Assembly® cloning. 

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