Figure 1.
General strategy to generate a programmed restriction enzyme. The single chain variant of PvuII is covalently linked via a (CH2)6- or (CH2)12 - linker to a TFO using GMBS, a bifunctional chemical cross-linker specific for amino and sulfhydryl groups. The final constructs, scPvuII-C6-TFO and scPvuII-C12-TFO, have a bipartite recognition site: the PvuII recognition site and the TFS.