Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab
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Blog Post
...We often think of DNA as inert. It generally stays put, which makes it easy to locate in a genome. But... in bacteria, transposons can move antibiotic resistance genes between plasmids or from plasmids to the...piggyBac is biased to integrate at transcription start sites, CpG islands, and DNaseI hypersensitivity ...Tol2 also prefers to integrate at transcription start sites, CpG islands, and DNaseI hypersensitivity ... of RNA guided transposons in bacteria sets the stage for combining the super powers of CRISPR and transposons...