Protocol for minicircle production for gene therapy without subsequent cleanup steps.

Abstract

Current techniques for producing minicircles have low yields because of the cleanup steps required. Here, we present a protocol that can increase minicircle yield up to 10-fold by eliminating post-induction cleanup steps. We describe steps for bacterial culture, same-day arabinose induction, and DNA harvesting. This protocol is relevant for all minicircles produced from parental plasmids containing attB, attP, and 32 copies of Isce-I endonuclease sites in the minicircle-producing bacteria, ZYCY10PS3T2.