Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids
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Blog Post
Published
Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
...researchers usually remove it after selection using the Cre/Lox recombination system. After “floxing” the resistance... you can remove the gene through the addition of Cre recombinase (Figure 2).
Figure 2: A knockout...so that it can be removed post-selection through Cre-mediated recombination.
Knockout/Knock-in...example, you can remove a floxed resistance gene using Cre recombinase. If GFP is under control of an endogenous... conditional knockout, researchers often use the Cre/Lox system described earlier. In this case, you design... you'll first remove the resistance marker using Cre recombinase. Since there are 3 loxP sites, recombination...hence knock out the gene) through a second round of Cre recombination.
The future of knockout plasmids
Although...