Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab
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Blog Post
Published
July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
...move antibiotic resistance genes between plasmids or from plasmids to the bacteria’s genome. In humans, if...activity (Voigt et al., 2016).
Sleeping Beauty plasmids
piggyBac
Although its name suggests otherwise...codon-optimized wild-type piggyBac transposase.
piggyBac plasmids
Tol2
Tol2 was the first reported active DNA...increase in transposition activity
Tol2 transposon plasmids
Applications of transposons
Now that you’ve... (~5 kB payload for AAV and ~8 kB payload for lentivirus). Large cargos, such as the ~11 kB cDNA for dystrophin...