repetitive dna

[Chris Boyd]

Hans Dauwerse (dauw at ruly46.medfac.leidenuniv.nl) wrote:
: You could try strains as DH10b or DH5alphamcrSBCc, which...
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                [I assume you mean  DH5alphamcrBC (Gibco Cat no. 18307-017)]

: ... should propagate plasmids with instable inserts.

No. These strains are likely to be no better than any other recA-
strains for tandem repeat instability, and certainly no better than
Sure.  

: Maybe yuo 
: could consider to use a low copy plasmid.

A better idea, but still not _certain_ to resolve tandem repeat
instability.  I don't know of _any_ strain where this problem has been
fully eradicated.  There will always be sequences that cannot be cloned
stably in E. coli.  It's a corollary of Godel's Theorem.

Best wishes,
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Chris Boyd                       | from, | MRC Human Genetics Unit
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