Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning
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...succumb to the toxicity of CcdB.
Figure 1: Image from Bernard, P., et al. showing the pKIL 18...submit a guest blog entry of your own!
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1. Bernard, P. “Positive Selection of Recombinant DNA... plasmid ccdB killer gene”. Gene. 1994 Oct 11;148(1):71-4. PubMed PMID: 7926841.
4. Bernard, P., et al...poison, locking up DNA gyrase with broken double stranded DNA and ultimately causing cell death. ccdA, another...gene in frame with an MCS. E. coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene... that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the specific plasmids being used...