Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
Type
Blog Post
...we recommend that you use a wide gel comb, run the gel on the slower side, and skip lanes between samples...downstream of the promoter found in the backbone. Ideally, the backbone will contain a variety of restriction...plasmid backbone looks like the one found on the left side of the image below. It has a promoter (blue arrow...single enzyme if your insert is flanked on both sides by that enzyme’s restriction sites, but the insert...Methylene Blue
Post
Visible Light
100
Ethidium Bromide
Pre and Post
UV Light
0.5
For more information...addition to a DNA ladder standard, it is also a good idea to run an uncut sample of each plasmid to help with...total DNA in a standard ligation reaction. You ideally want a “recipient plasmid : insert ratio” of approximately...