What Is a Bacterial Artificial Chromosome?

Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) refers to a bacterial chromosome cloning vector constructed on the basis of F-plasmid. It is commonly used to clone DNA fragments of about 150kb in size and can store up to 300kb bases. Correct.

Bacterial artificial chromosome

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Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) refers to a bacterial chromosome cloning vector constructed on the basis of F-plasmid. It is commonly used to clone DNA fragments of about 150kb in size and can store up to 300kb bases. Correct.
Chinese name
Bacterial artificial chromosome
Foreign name
Bacterial artificial chromosome
Nature
Bacterial chromosome cloning vector
Foundation
F plasmid
This plasmid mainly includes oriS, repE (controlling F plasmid replication) and parA, parB (controlling copy number). The BAC-based cloned vector has a low frequency of chimerism, high transformation efficiency, and exists in the bacterial body in a circular structure, which is easy to distinguish, isolate, and purify. It is mainly used for the construction of large-scale genomic libraries and related research on large gene clusters, and plays an important role in various biological genome projects.

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