The Hall of Unexpectedly Cloned Plasmids

Testing out Plasmidsaurus’s zeroprep service (re)opened my eyes to the really weird and unexpected recombinant DNA plasmids that can be made through our standard cloning pipeline (largely utilizing PCR amplification and Gibson assembly). Here are some fun examples.

s/o to pLannotate for making the annotated plasmid maps I’m using as the visuals.

The intended construct "L149"
What I got. # The head-to-head fusion is kind of unusual. But also, where it did the split is funny, where it didn't even give me the full PDCH19 sequence after all that.
The intended construct "L153"
What I got. # I think I've seen this happen before. One intended construct fused in head-to-tail orientation with a linerized template plasmid.

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