Three Tips for Preventing Viral Plasmid Recombination in Your Samples
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Viral vectors are prone to recombination
In lentiviral vectors, recombination often occurs between the...time, bacteria containing the recombined vector backbone will also outgrow bacteria that contain the full...full length plasmid.
Figure 1: The full lentiviral plasmid is expected to be >12 kb. However if ...smaller plasmids. The ~3.7 kb recombined vector backbone contains the antibiotic resistance gene (AmpR)...noticed that in Stbl3 bacterial cultures with lentiviral vectors, the flat white colonies contained the...E. coli cultures contain the recombined vector backbone.
Test multiple colonies before saving a glycerol...different band patterns for the recombined vector backbone vs. the full length plasmid. If you find that ...