Plasmid_Backbone

Part:BBa_K625005

Designed by: Michael Eichenberger   Group: iGEM11_ETH_Zurich   (2011-09-21)

pSB6A5

This is the version 5 BioBrick vector backbone of the medium copy (minimal pBR322 origin) pSB6A1 plasmid. This means, that the cassettes for the ORI and antibiotic resistance have been minimized (reduction of the size and transcriptional terminators flanking the prefix and the suffix have been added, to trancriptionally insulate the inserted parts from the vector backbone machinery and vice versa. This minimization yielded a reduction in size from 4022 bp to 2743 bp.

For comparison of the copy number of the plasmids, triplicates of OD normalized bacterial cultures containing the respective plasmids were miniprepped. The DNA concentration was then determined by an agarose DNA gel electrophoresis of EcoRI digests of the purified plasmids (Figure 1). This experiment showed a clear reduction in copy number of the minimized version of the original plasmid (Figure 2). Possible reasons for this could be deletion of some unknown regulatory sequences during minimization of the ORI or transcription from within the insert into the origin region in psB6A1 impacting the replication machinery.

Figure 1: Agarose gel with 2-log-ladder loaded in in lane one, digests of triplicates of the EcoRI digests of pSB6A1 (lane 2-4) and pSB6A5 (lane5-7).
Figure 2: Agarose gel with 2-log-ladder loaded in in lane one, digests of triplicates of the EcoRI digests of pSB6A1 (lane 2-4) and pSB6A5 (lane5-7).


Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Plasmid lacks a prefix.
    Plasmid lacks a suffix.
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 2722
    Illegal SpeI site found at 2
    Illegal PstI site found at 16
    Illegal NotI site found at 9
    Illegal NotI site found at 2728
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Plasmid lacks a prefix.
    Plasmid lacks a suffix.
    Illegal EcoRI site found at 2722
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal prefix found at 2722
    Illegal suffix found at 2
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal prefix found at 2722
    Plasmid lacks a suffix.
    Illegal XbaI site found at 2737
    Illegal SpeI site found at 2
    Illegal PstI site found at 16
  • 1000
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
    Plasmid lacks a prefix.
    Plasmid lacks a suffix.
    Illegal SapI site found at 771


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