Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...are designed to be complementary, but each primer may extend beyond the complementary region as long as...products (green) are digested with enzyme “A” as compared to the products of parental plasmid digestion ...
Primer Design
As a rule of thumb, 11 bp of complementary sequence on either side of the desired mutation...template should be isolated from a methylation competent bacterial strain (e.g. DH5α which is dam+). Methylation...A-overhangs (a feature used in TA-cloning). Such non-complementary bases at the 3’-end interfere with plasmid reconstitution...that any residual parental plasmid (usually from incomplete DpnI digest) can also form colonies under these...