Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
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...cells to retain plasmids - if a cell does not inherit plasmid due to improper plasmid partitioning, it...unstabilized plasmids were retained in less than 10% of cells while plasmids containing the plasmid addiction...ensure that plasmids are passed down through generations (Figure 1). These so called “plasmid addiction ...only survive if they retain the plasmid.
Since their discovery, plasmid addiction systems have been used...found that if a mini-F plasmid carried a specific 700 bp segment of DNA, the plasmid was propagated better...selection in one plasmid, they were able to create an efficient cloning tool. The plasmid pKSCTMF contains...restriction-modification systems onto plasmids allowed cell populations to retain more of these plasmids as compared to those...