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Ampicillin resistance

Ampicillin resistance

Nonsusceptibility of a microbe to the action of ampicillin, a penicillin derivative that interferes with cell wall synthesis.


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Help Needed - Ligation Pairing (Vector and DNA)

... urls, would be appreciated. This experiment was cloning a kanamycin resistance gene into a plasmid and determining the orientation of insert. ... the transformants produced with the ligated DNA were also plated on ampicillin medium. Would you expect to see a significant difference in the ...

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by techbrit
Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:34 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Help Needed - Ligation Pairing (Vector and DNA)
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In short: Ampicillin is active only during cell division. while many other antibiotics are active ... are very likely to kill the bacteria before it even has time to express the antibiotic resistance gene. So the delay is to allow correct expression before trying to poison the ...

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by poobear
Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:05 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Why can you plate directly when having ampicillin?
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Why can you plate directly when having ampicillin?

In short: Ampicillin is active only during cell division. while many other antibiotics are active ... are very likely to kill the bacteria before it even has time to express the antibiotic resistance gene. So the delay is to allow correct expression before trying to poison the ...

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by canalon
Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:54 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Why can you plate directly when having ampicillin?
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Re: Why can you plate directly when having ampicillin?

... the plasmid has enter inside the bacteria and gives it the antibiotic resistance and the presence of the gene to clone (or empty plasmid) , but ... were that have plasmid. At more longer times when betalactamase brokes ampicillin, satellite colonies will apear around the harboring plasmid ones. ...

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by protold
Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:41 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Why can you plate directly when having ampicillin?
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Differences:Cloning vs sub-cloning

... into bacterial cells. The vector usually has selectable marker such as ampicillin resistance gene that when plated in the presence of ampicillin will survive/produce colonies ...

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by doctobe
Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:33 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Differences:Cloning vs sub-cloning
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