Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
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Published
Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
...Improvement of pCVD442, a suicide plasmid for gene allele exchange in bacteria." Plasmid 51.3 (2004): 246-255. PubMed...exogenous enzymes, require multiple transformation and plasmid curing steps, and can generate off-target mutations...a mutated allele introduced from a conjugative plasmid replaces the chromosomal copy. This is a versatile...
These two steps are (Figure 1):
The initial plasmid integration step (the so-called “single crossover...difficult, we have also included versions of pTOX that encode one of two visible blue or magenta chromoproteins... an allelic exchange experiment? Find the pTOX plasmids here!
Continued development of new allelic exchange...Additional resources on the Addgene blog
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