Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
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Blog Post
Published
Feb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m.
...let’s go over the details step-by-step.
1. Digestion
Set up restriction digests for your insert (or donor...recipient plasmid : insert ratio” of approximately 1:3. Since the number of base pairs for each varies,...cells.
For most standard cloning, you can transform 1-2μl of your ligation reaction into competent cells...at minimum, two transformations after a ligation:
1. Control Transformation containing the ligation mixture...result in few colonies on both plates (unsuccessful 1), in a vector alone plate with many more colonies ...them. An easy way to do this is gel purification. In gel purification, you use a voltage difference across...backbone.
Sample results indicative of successful and unsuccessful ligations are indicated below. A successful...