Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

A standard for near-scarless plasmid construction using reusable DNA parts

  • Xiaoqiang Ma,
  • Hong Liang,
  • Xiaoyi Cui,
  • Yurou Liu,
  • Hongyuan Lu,
  • Wenbo Ning,
  • Nga Yu Poon,
  • Benjamin Ho,
  • Kang Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11263-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Construction of plasmids from multiple fragments often uses customised parts and leaves scars where fragments are joined. Here the authors develop a method for barcoding fragments and constructing plasmids in a scarless manner from a collection of standard parts.