Silent ClaI sites - info ?

[Michael Benedik]

In article <jjw-230993123321 at 150.203.39.67>, jjw at rsbs1.anu.edu.au (Jeremy Weinman) writes:
>Silent ClaI sites
>
>Does anybody out there in netland know of any info (published or otherwise)
>on why ClaI sometimes doesn't recognize a ClaI site?  We've got some clones
>which we have been mapping and we have a cla site that cuts on the basis of
>some unknown or perhaps archane variable, seemingly regardless of how well
>other cla sites in the clone are cutting.  Any thoughts?
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When a dam methylation site (GATC) overlaps a ClaI site, then 
the site will not cut, unless your DNA was prepared from a dam- E.coli
host.
(Not cut actually means cuts poorly or not at all depending upon the
DNA prep, probably due to how completely sites were methylated)


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