Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Recognition Sequence, Bamhi

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Restriction enzymes have: specific recognition sequences. Recognition sequences can differ in length (4/6/8 cutters: result in specific cutting patterns. Fragments fit only back together if they have: the same type of ends, matching sequences. A different restriction enzyme with a different recognition sequence makes a blunt end but the sequencing to the left and the right of the cut site are different. These 2 fragments can be ligated b/c they have the same type of ends. But when you do that, you change the recognition sequence: this recognition site is not the recognition site for either enzyme. Both enzymes have different recognition sites but they generate the same overhangs they can be ligated but again: you can lose a restriction site. Overhang not only have a particular extension (5"), it is also made up of particular nucleotides (ttaa). Another restriction enzyme with a slightly different recognition sequence generates an identical 5" overhang with the same sequence (ttaa).

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