PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field
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...the ability to distribute plasmids with the piggyBac™ transposon. These plasmids, when combined with a source...useful resource. While Addgene cannot distribute plasmids with the piggyBac™ transposase itself, please ...genome fully intact, while, with a standard DNA plasmid transfection, a double-stranded break may occur...by utilizing a piggyBac™ transposon in a donor plasmid carrying the DNA edit of interest, along with a...piggyBac™ transposase enzyme [4]. By using a donor plasmid containing a negative selection marker such as ...kill off any cells that still contain the donor plasmid after excision by PBx, thereby leaving behind only...cytotoxicity [5]. Second, instead of using a donor-plasmid, you could use a single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide...