The BL21(DE3) Chemically Competent strains contain the phage T7 RNA polymerase gene linked to the IPTG-inducible promoter, for use with any expression plasmid containing the T7 promoter.GenotypeF - ompT hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3)
Storage: -70C
Application: The E. coli strain BL21 (DE3) has been used to express tau 2N4R isoform (aa1-441) and the truncated tau (aa1-421) using pET19b as expression vector.