Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
...may be a plasmid that constitutively expresses a reporter protein (e.g., GFP or luciferase) that is either... well of your cells. Regardless, the amount of reporter protein activity correlates to both the amount...successfully and expressing the protein. For example, fluorescence microscopy images resulting from our experiment...was not successful due to the absence of GFP fluorescence from the living, viable cells. This result presents...produces the expected effect, which is green fluorescent cells (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Expression of Plasmid...These controls may or may not be plasmid-based depending on the experimental needs. Using our experiment...Plasmid A is the decreased expression of Gene X. Ergo the positive control(s) should decrease the expression...