E.coli strain BL21(DE3) transformed with pMBP-MutS-H6 was grown to OD 600 $1.0 and induced using 1 mM isopropylb-D-thiogalactopyranoside for 4 h at 37 C. Cells from 4 l of culture were pelleted and resuspended in 60 ml of buffer A (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 300 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTT and 1 mM phenylmethlysulfonyl fluoride). Cell suspension was sonicated on ice and insoluble material was removed by centrifugation at 50 000 g for 10 min at 4 C. Supernatant was applied to 5 ml amylose resin pre-equilibrated in buffer A. Bound MBP-MutS-H6 was washed three times using 20 ml buffer B (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 300 mM NaCl) and stored The re-hybridized gene synthesis products are fragmented, and error containing fragments are precipitated by MBP-MutS-H6 immobilized on amylose support. Error reduced fragments (orange, blue and red) are reassembled into the full-length gene followed by PCR amplification to generate error reduced products. Primers: black lines.