Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
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...mazF gene and a gene for Zeocin resistance (Figure 2). This MazF-ZeoR cassette is flanked by two direct...than plasmids without this DNA.
They eventually designated this fragment as the ccdB region (for “coupled... serves as a counterselectable marker in the destination vector. Successful cloning occurs when the ccdB...restriction endonucleases in plasmid addition was first described by studies of EcoRI and Bsp6I in Escherichia coli...systems.
As with the other toxin-antitoxin systems described above, one part of the pair is more stable than...toxin-antitoxin system discovered. Unlike the systems just described, the hok/sok systems consist of three components...long-term experiments. They’ve also helped researchers design and optimize cloning methodologies using counterselection...