Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.
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Congratulations, you have a plasmid expressing your gene of interest (YGOI) and are ready to dive into...the plasmid based on the predicted sizes and organization of different features within the plasmid. Restriction...if you don't have the full plasmid sequence. Once you have purified plasmid DNA, this method can be done...example plasmid on the right has a total size of 7.3kb, including a 1.2 kb insert. The plasmid was digested...possible plasmid conformations, with relaxed and nicked marked with asterisks (*). When the plasmid is digested...functional experiments! Whether you’ve cloned the plasmid yourself or obtained it from a colleague down the...with the correct construct, and verify that the plasmid you received matches the expected sequence. Here...