Rubén,

the previous answer probably addresses your problem accurately. 

However. If your protein of interest modifies DNA/RNA, it is quite common that 
your pET constructs will mutate rapidly in E.coli. Lac operons tend to leak 
quite a bit, which is not enough to detect the protein prior to induction but 
can definitely drive the selection for mutated plasmids in E.coli. We saw that 
behavior in a nuclease cloned from homogeneous genomic DNA. Every colony had a 
different mutant when grown on LB.  Also mutants that do not appear to affect 
the enzyme activity judged by the structure. We assumed, that any mutation that 
slightly reduces the toxicity for E.coli will be selected for. So, if you 
experience the same issue again with synthetic DNA, or have the patience to 
repeat, try adding ~1% glucose to all media, liquid and solid. This will 
tighten up the Lac operon and worked well for our nuclease project.  You still 
have to sequence every batch you purify. pLysS cells can also work, but we 
still ended up adding glucose because it is cheap and doesn't cause trouble 
downstream. 

Stefan

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