Atomic force microscopy of closed circular plasmid pBS DNA (via Angel Rivera)

Plasmid replication and partitioning (for a review see Actis et al.):

• Control of plasmid replication
• Plasmid partitioning
• Yeast plasmids
• Suicide vectors and allele exchange
• Plasmid replicon database

• Conjugation (a virtual version of Prof. Steve Farrand's lecture from 10/16/00)
• Mechanism of conjugation
• Formation of Hfr's
• Hfr conjugation
• Formation of F-primes
• Conjugal transfer in nature
• Agrobacterium Ti plasmid

• Some sample plasmid biology problems
• Some sample conjugation problems

Please send comments, suggestions, or questions to smaloy@sciences.sdsu.edu
Last modified June 14, 2004