Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening
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Blog Post
Published
June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
...medium, without which the cells cannot reproduce to form colonies (used to complement auxotrophic cell lines...produces pigment from x-gal (included in the transformation plate medium), turning the bacterial colony...for blue-white screening
Use a good control: Transform the backbone plasmid without insert. All colonies...components, and are rescued by genes supplied on the transformed plasmid. Such plasmids may contain genes that...