Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids
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... the example shown in Figure 1, large sequences corresponding to exons 1 and 3 of the targeted gene have...knock out exon 2 of a given gene.
Figure 1: A knockout targeting vector designed to insert a ... the Neomycin resistance (NeoR) gene between exon 1 and 3 of the targeted gene. Upon recombination, the... mechanism to accurately repair harmful double stranded breaks, in which nucleotide sequences are exchanged...selection marker HSV-tk is used to select against random recombinants.
Design your targeting construct...selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into the genome, a negative selection...step will kill off many of the cells that have randomly integrated all or large portions of the plasmid...