Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
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Plasmids with the same replicon are incompatible because they compete for the same replication control...incompatibility due to having the same replication machinery. High copy plasmids with the same centromere-like binding...if they have the same centromere-like region, and the NTPases end up “walking” the same plasmids to one... when multiple plasmids within one cell have the same replicon and/or partitioning system. Let’s start...model, iterons of two separate plasmids bind to the same RepA molecules, forming a “handcuff” structure that...replication machinery. However, when plasmids have the same origin of replication, the negative regulation system...binding region compete for the same CBPs and NTPase to correctly partition plasmids to each daughter cell...