A circular plasmid of 3600 bp is cut with one enzyme…
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A circular plasmid of bp is cut with one enzyme. The gel shows a band at bp, a band at bp and a band at bp that is twice as bright as the others.
- What do the three band sizes add up to?
- How much DNA is missing from the sum?
- What does the bright band tell you, and how many sites does the enzyme have?
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
Read a size from a ladder with a straight line of size against distance. An uncut plasmid shows a supercoiled band (fastest), a linear band and a nicked band (slowest). The control plates are: no DNA, uncut vector, cut vector without ligase, and cut vector with ligase and no insert. Efficiency colonies (ng of DNA on the plate) for each microgram.
The worked solution
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. Plasmid bp. Bands , and bp, the last one twice as bright.
Plan. The fragments of a digest must add up to the plasmid.
Step 1. (a) bp.
Step 2. (b) bp are missing.
Step 3. (c) The missing bp is a second fragment of bp, which runs together with the first one in a brighter band. So there are four fragments: , , and bp. A circle with four fragments has sites.
Answer: bp; bp; two equal fragments in the bright band, and four sites.
Check. bp.
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