Before the bench,
the computer filters first
By part IV the construct is designed. Now, before making anything, we ask two questions: will this fragment actually go into an expression vector, and does it look like it could wake an immune response?
We pick two restriction enzymes to fix the orientation, add up the paper's three numbers by hand (they do not add up — and the missing 46 bp is exactly what cloning really is), run the four validation checks, and read the four panels of an immune simulation.
And the thing this part says loudest: a plasmid is not a vaccine, and a curve is not a response. A cheap filter is still worth having.
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Add the paper's 5369, 939 and 6262 by hand and they do not match. The missing 46 bp is what cloning actually is.
BamHI and XhoI leave non-compatible ends, cutting the number of ways the insert can go in from two to one.
Antibodies, cells, cytokines, antigen clearance — read the order and the balance, not the y-axis.
A plasmid is not a vaccine and a curve is not a response — yet a cheap filter still earns its place.