Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 22, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
...such as prototrophy, the ability to synthetize all compounds needed for growth, or auxotrophy, the inability...synthesize a compound needed to grow.
Auxotrophy and prototrophy come into play during cloning if you’...lab created a yeast prototrophy kit containing 23 plasmids to complement auxotrophy.
Negative selection...antibiotic resistance cassette and you aren’t introducing an additional antibiotic resistance cassette ...plasmid backbone contains your gene of interest.
Auxotrophy
Besides antibiotic selection, you can select ...you’ve designed your experiment using an auxotrophic strain of bacteria (one that doesn’t synthesize an ...amino acid), and a plasmid that complements the auxotrophy (i.e., synthesizes the critical amino acid). ...