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cosmid
A cosmid is a type of hybrid plasmid that contains a Lambda phage ''cos sequence''. Cosmids' (''cos sites + plasmid = cosmids'') DNA sequences are originally from the lambda phage. They are often used as a cloning vector in genetic engineering. Cosmids can be used to build genomic libraries. They were first described by Collins and Hohn in 1978.
Cosmids can contain 37 to 52 (normally 45) kb of DNA, limits based on the normal bacteriophage packaging size. They can replicate as plasmids if they have a suitable origin of replication: for example SV40 ori in mammalian cells, ColE1 ori for double-stranded DNA replication or f1 ori for single-stranded DNA replication in prokaryotes. They frequently also contain a gene for selection such as antibiotic resistance, so that the transformed cells can be identified by plating on a medium containing the antibiotic. Those cells which did not take up the cosmid would be unable to grow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cosmids )〕
Unlike plasmids, they can also be packaged in phage capsids, which allows the foreign genes to be transferred into or between cells by transduction. Plasmids become unstable after a certain amount of DNA has been inserted into them, because their increased size is more conducive to recombination. To circumvent this, phage transduction is used instead. This is made possible by the ''cohesive ends'', also known as ''cos'' sites. In this way, they are similar to using the lambda phage as a vector, except ''all'' the lambda genes have been deleted with the exception of the ''cos'' sequence.
==Cos Sequences==
''Cos'' sequences are ~200 base pairs long and essential for packaging. They contain a ''cosN'' site where DNA is nicked at each strand, 12 bp apart, by terminase. This causes linearization of the circular cosmid with two "cohesive" or "sticky ends" of 12bp. (The DNA must be linear to fit into a phage head.) The ''cosB'' site holds the terminase while it is nicking and separating the strands. The ''cosQ'' site of next cosmid (as rolling circle replication often results in linear concatemers) is held by the terminase after the previous cosmid has been packaged, to prevent degradation by cellular DNases.
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