Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab
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July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
...encodes endonuclease and reverse transcriptase activities.
Figure 1: Overview of retrotransposon...improves on SB100X by having 30% higher transposition activity (Voigt et al., 2016).
Sleeping Beauty plasmids...mobilize DNA over 100 kB in size and is active in vitro as well as in vivo in yeast, plant, insect, and ...transcription start sites, CpG islands, and DNaseI hypersensitivity sites. Like Sleeping Beauty, piggyBac has ...transcription start sites, CpG islands, and DNaseI hypersensitivity sites. Tol2 is only active in vertebrates ...Tol2 and has ~3-fold increase in transposition activity
Tol2 transposon plasmids
Applications of...