Plasmids 101: How to Name Your Plasmid in 3 Easy Steps
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pBACKBONE-XXXXX
Tip: For a catalog of published and commercially available empty backbones, visit...fusions that are on your insert. Typically you would list any tag or fusion protein in the order they appear... tag on the N-terminal of your insert, you would list it first.
pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene
If there was also...fused to the C-terminal of your insert you would list it after the insert.
pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene-EGFP
Other...included in the plasmid name. Mutations are generally listed as the amino acid change and not a nucleotide change...proper way to denote an amino acid mutation is to list the one letter abbreviation of the wild type amino...