Table 3. Cells that carry a self-targeting plasmid are outgrown by non-targeted cells.
| % of white colonies in strains with plasmids | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OD650nm range | pTA232 | pTA232–crRNA#3 | pTA232 + pTA232–crRNA#3 | |||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| 0.1–0.4 | 0 | 0 | 98.2 | 1.7 | 0.51 | 0.4 |
| 0.4–0.6 | 0 | 0 | 98.7 | 1.2 | 0.67 | 0.5 |
| 0.6–0.9 | 0 | 0 | 99.4 | 0 | 0.83 | 0.8 |