Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids
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Blog Post
Published
April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
...variable is the shRNA. Therefore the empty control vector would be Plasmid A sans shRNA, or backbone Y ...Experiment: Knockdown the expression of Gene X using shRNA expressed from a plasmid
Figure 1: Expression ...a single experiment wherein Plasmid A (encoding shRNA against human Gene X in backbone Y) was transfected... this result one could simply conclude that the shRNA didn’t work, as the expression level of Gene X in...plasmid delivered into the cells successfully? Is the shRNA target correct? Is the purified plasmid DNA viable... in the experiment above, Plasmid A contains an shRNA that targets human Gene X and human cells are being...non-targeting control in this experiment could be an shRNA—in the same backbone as Plasmid A—that does not ...