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  1. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...insert (blue-white screening). Other types of screening methods Although blue-white screening is probably...pUC19, and pBluescript are a few common vectors. Blue-white screening is just that – a screening process... out our screening overview blog post.) *Note: Two Popular Vectors for Blue White Screening Available...functional β-galactosidase enzyme and a blue colony. Blue-white screening is a good way to narrow down candidates...insert? Blue-white selection is a widely used method to do just that! (To read about other screening strategies...plasmids? Blue-white screening in the lab Scientists discovered that deleting a section from the lacZ gene...transcription of the lac operon.   Tips for blue-white screening Use a good control: Transform the backbone...
  2. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    Sept. 15, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...gRNA (white) from those that do not (blue). Let’s take a look at a few screening methods. Blue-white screen...and are white. Cells that don’t contain the insert are blue. Check out our blue-white screening blog post...screen A widely used method of screening is the blue-white screen, which relies on the lacZ gene. lacZ ... turns into an insoluble blue pigment. Find plasmids for blue-white screening at Addgene! Some bacterial... your selection, then screen Why add a screen to your cloning strategy? A screen will help you more easily...vector contains the gRNA insert or not. A blue-white screen, however, can give you this information (more...plasmid, creates a functional 𝛽-galactosidase. Blue-white screens rely on vectors where the gene of interest...
  3. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    Nov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...galK16 rpsL(StrR) endA1 λ- XL1 Blue Tetracycline Blue/white screening and routine cloning, nalidixic ...methylate DNA lac Lac operon mutations Blue/white screening of clones   lacIq lac repressor overproduced...derivative. General cloning and storage, blue/white screening, leucine auxotroph. F- endA1 recA1 galE15... cloning and storage of common plasmids, blue/white screening. F- endA1 glnV44 thi-1 recA1 relA1 gyrA96...General cloning and plasmid maintenance, blue/white screening, partly restriction-deficient; good strain...derivative. General cloning and storage, blue/white screening. F- mcrA Δ(mrr-hsdRMS-mcrBC) φ80lacZΔM15...
  4. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    Dec. 7, 2015, 6 p.m.
    ...your protein of interest. 4. Plasmids 101: Blue-White Screening Getting a lot of empty vector contaminants...clone? Addgenie Jessica Welch explains how Blue-White screening could be a potential solution. 5. Cpf1: ...
  5. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
    ...sequencing of plasmids isolated from blue or white colonies. Sequencing of blue colonies showed the expected ...result in a blue phenotype. Indeed, this was seen in all lacI/ lacZ assembly test systems; no blue colonies...suppression of background by antibiotic selection. Screening of transformants by colony PCR confirmed the insertion...in optimization of assembly systems) to produce a blue colony phenotype upon growth on LB/Cam/X-gal/IPTG...for the lacI/lacZ genes (1), while sequencing of white colonies showed a mixture of mis-assemblies and ...obtained if any single component was omitted. Screening for successful Golden Gate Assembly All Golden...to faster assembly workflows that require less screening to confirm the accuracy of assembly. The fidelity...
  6. Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning

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    Oct. 27, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cassette allowing a researcher to perform blue-white screening after transformation - self joining of the...transformation efficiency).  5. Select and Analyze 10 White or Light Blue Colonies: You can confirm the presence of...illustrated in the Figure below, the “A” overhang on the blue PCR product insert comes from using Taq polymerase... the vector ends results in the production of blue colonies that do not need to be picked and sequenced...
  7. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...expensive methods. While techniques such as  blue-white screening require X-gal, an expensive exogenously-...encoding a blue chromoprotein, after transforming them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies...gives a bright green fluorescence when exposed to blue to ultraviolet light, whereas chromoproteins do ...history. In 1987, scientists described an unusual blue-colored protein from the jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana...years later, scientists isolated pink, purple, and blue chromoproteins isolated from reef-building corals...chromoproteins don’t require other substrates for screening. Thus chromoproteins can be used as markers in...References Blanquet RS, Phelan MA (1987) An unusual blue mesogleal protein from the mangrove jellyfish Cassiopea...
  8. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    Aug. 2, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...101: What is a plasmid? Plasmids 101: Blue-white screeningPlasmids 101: Common lab E. Coli strains  ...microscope. Gram positive bacteria will be stained blue or purple, and gram negative bacteria will be stained...procedure, gram positive bacteria are stained purple or blue, and gram negative bacteria are stained red or pink...
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