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hope advices on improving the efficiency of library constrction! - ask for help on library constrction! (Aug/05/2005 )

hi, everyone:

I am using the M13 KE to construct a phage display library, I'm sure the ligation works well and, I even recovered the desired fragment (using the phage with the same size of insert as a control) and electroporated them to E.coli, but the library size is not very big, only 10 6-7. After that,, I have transformed the plasmid (containing my insert) to E.coli, and found that the transform efficiency is only a little higher than my ligation mixture. But now, for me, I hope the library size reach 1*10 9, and my next result will be fully determined by the library size.
Thus my question is:
How to improve the library size according to my detail?

All suggestion will be well appreciated!


Best wishes!

-braveheart-

QUOTE (braveheart @ Aug 5 2005, 12:40 PM)
hi, everyone:

I am using the M13 KE to construct a phage display library, I'm sure the ligation works well and, I even recovered the desired fragment (using the phage with the same size of insert as a control) and electroporated them to E.coli, but the library size is not very big, only 10 6-7. After that,, I have transformed the plasmid (containing my insert) to E.coli, and found that the transform efficiency is only a little higher than my ligation mixture. But now, for me, I hope the library size reach 1*10 9, and my next result will be fully determined by the library size.
Thus my question is:
How to improve the library size according to my detail?

All suggestion will be well appreciated!


Best wishes!


Is there more than 1ug in your ligation. If not, you should concentrate them before ligation

-h86862003-