Talk:Plasmid
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In our science books it says that the plasmid (DNA) only occurs inthe prokaryote cell. So how would it occur in the eukaryote cell?
- Science books rapidly become out of date as they are unable to update themselves; articles in journals represent the best option for obtaining up to date facts on any given scientific topic. Whilst it is true that plasmids are frequently associated with bacteria, there are several examples of plasmids in fungi and plants. They are often linear, provide no real benefit to the host organism and exist for the "selfish" purposes of their own propagation usually via the host cellular machinery.
- Yeasts are often used as an alternative to bacteria for the expression of mammalian proteins cloned in recombinant plasmids (YEp vectors).
Despite the fact that textbooks become rapidly outdated, I believe most of this information can be found in recent entry-level college textbooks. Poofyspikes 18:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
- True. Though I'm guessing from the term 'science books' the question asker is probably using using a basic science text, and obviously things get simplified for reasons of both understanding and space
Regarding the 'conformations' section.
I'm not sure the following is true:
The relative electrophoretic mobility (speed) of these DNA conformations in a gel are as follows:
- Nicked Open Circular (slowest)
- Linear
- Supercoiled
- Supercoiled Denatured
- Relaxed Circular (fastest)
Is it really the case that the two circular forms, which differ only in a single nick, have the largest difference in migration rate? Somehow I doubt this. Loris 17:30, 19 January 2006 (UTC) i wonder if u can explain more about their maintainence [Stanzin]14:57,31 January 2006
The conformation rate of migration information is almost certainly wrong. Supercoiled plasmids (knotted, more compact circles) should travel faster than relaxed plasmids (which are expanded circles). I have changed the order in the article to reflect this.
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[edit] Autonomous replication
What do you mean by autonomous replication?
- This means that they can replicate separately from the chromosome. They do of course use a lot of the cellular machinery to do this, but the point is that they regulate their copy-number independent of the chromosome. Loris 16:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Episome
In vertebrate virology, the term episome always refers to non-integrated DNA that is replicated and segregated to daughter cells. For example see Cell (2004) 117:349 PMID: 15109495. Do bacteriologists really use the word episome to refer to integrated DNA? It's puzzling given that the latin roots mean "upon body." Retroid 13:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
- The definition of an episome is an extrachromsomal element that is capable of integration into the host cell chromosome, at least in bacteria. The difference with eukaryotic terminology is puzzling. I shall try and look into it. Blackmetalbaz (talk) 23:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to find the definition of an episome, and this article contradicts itself on the subject. The text says they're not integrated, the picture says they are, the caption of the picture says they aren't. Help? 24.82.209.151 (talk) 07:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Color Blind
The diagram here is green and red, which is difficult for some to see. Maybe green could be blue instead?Alex Dodge 03:26, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Just did the first one but then realised that the problem one is probably fig 4? Is that so? David D. (Talk) 03:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cost of commercial preparation
After considerable digging, I found a price for commercial preparation of plasmid DNA (see article). I'm not sure whether a link to a commercial site is appropriate in the article itself, but as documentation, here it is: http://www.natx.com/PlasmidSmPrice.html 67.119.13.131 07:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spamming Wikipedia
Biologicalworld.com has spammed wikipedia like no tomorrow. He is a site of only a few pages and a LOT of adsense. Not much information is given except for "protocols" which are not referenced, and cannot be trusted from a site of that quality.
check: Links from Wikipedia
The following have been cleaned up:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_(biology)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_enzyme
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_dish
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_domain
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsin
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotide
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscope
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_plate
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_phosphate
- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sciencetalks (talk • contribs) 02:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Computer programs?
The last I knew Plasmids are not "4-bit computer programs" that are "downloaded" to bacteria, this is deffinatly not true, so I propose that the article should have all mention of a DNA=computer language removed. If I'm mistaken, please tell me so. ace ma'noyanort lu ave matthew (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
