Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
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..., because leaky expression of toxin could select for mutations in the toxin itself (leading to counter-selection...gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette. This leaves a “scar” in the chromosome, sometimes interfering...ways to create scarless mutations, ones that don’t leave any undesired scars in the chromosome.
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The resolution step (“double crossover”) which leads to the desired mutation and excision of the vector... paper. We selected the three toxins so that at least one might be useful in a broad array of pathogenic... switched over to pTOX. However, we feel it has clear advantages, and are hopeful that continued development...Plasmids 101 blog posts
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