I am trying to amplify a gene from streptomyces genome. This is GC rich with 36 start codons (ATG) at different positions of whole gene (1491 bp total gene length). I am not getting the right length of this gene after trying many conditions of PCR including enhancers, stimulants, temperature gradient, template and primers concentrations etc. My questions:

1. Why there are so many ATGs in this gene?

2. Presence of multiple ATGs interferes primer-template binding and amplification?

If I am successful to amplify this gene and later on clone it in expression vector, it will be expressive or not?

Thanks in advance.

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