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. 2014 Feb 13;9(2):e88218. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088218

Figure 4. Construction of plasmids for RNAi mediated gene silencing.

Figure 4

A) A target sequence containing LI C-D fusion sites and a LI intron element are combined into a LII 1–2 RNAi vector backbone by BsaI cut-ligation. The chosen BsaI overhangs enable a one-step assembly of a hairpin construct containing the intron element between two copies of the LI C-D target sequence. When expressed, this creates an intron-spliced hairpin RNA, which is effective in gene silencing.