Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes
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...desired mutation into your plasmid of interest by PCR generates mutated plasmids with no methylation (there...in bacteria for purposes other than cloning or confirming plasmids. It turns out that restriction enzymes...are no methyltransferases in the PCR reaction). The template plasmid, on the other hand, should be derived...adenines in any GATC sequences found in the plasmid. When the PCR products are digested with DpnI, only the...Mutagenesis to Mutate Your Plasmids
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Boost Your Molecular...considered why DpnI will degrade your template DNA from a PCR reaction but not the newly synthesized product from...adenine in AACNNNNNNGTGC or GCACNNNNNNGTT
Impact on cloning and digests
Although not all prokaryotic DNA is...