Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication
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... plasmids with the same ori are incompatible because they will compete for the same machinery, creating...their copy number, ori, and incompatibility groups. Note the A -C compatibility grouping is an arbitrary ...origin of replication/replicon. The replicon is comprised of the origin of replication (ori) and all of ...origin of replication wisely and avoid plasmid incompatibility
In other words, the best choice of ori depends... or not you need to consider your plasmid's compatibility with one or more other plasmids. Generally speaking...plasmids for an experiment, make sure they have "compatible" ori's. See the table below for more details....details.
Common Vectors
Copy Number+
ori
Incompatibility Group
Control
pUC
~500-700
pMB1 (derivative...