Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
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Blog Post
Published
Feb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m.
...backbone.
Sample results indicative of successful and unsuccessful ligations are indicated below. A successful...enzymes. An enzyme, DNA ligase, then covalently binds the plasmid to the new fragment thereby generating...generate compatible overhangs that allow them to bind. Ligase is used to make bonds between the insert...followed by the restriction sites EcoRI, XhoI, and HindIII. To place your gene in the proper orientation downstream...EcoRI site just 5’ of the start of the gene and a HindIII site just 3’ of the end of the gene. This way you... backbone as well as the insert with EcoRI and HindIII and, when you mix the cut products together, the...two EcoRI digested ends will anneal and the two HindIII digested ends will anneal leaving the 5’ end of...