When more than one bait will be used to screen a single library, significant time and resources can be saved by performing the interactor hunt by interaction mating. In this protocol one strain is transformed with library DNA and the transformants are collected and frozen in aliquots. - [Read Performing a Hunt by Interaction Mating Protocol]
In this stage of the protocol, a mammalian cDNA library constructed in a plasmid such as pJG4-5 is transformed into yeast strains containing pBAIT and the lexAop-lacZ reporter plasmid. PJG4-5 expresses the cloned cDNAs from a cassette containing a transcriptional activation domain and other moieties under the control of the yeast GAL1 promoter. - [Read Two-hybrid Systems Stage 2: Selecting an Interactor Protocol]