When designing a plasmid with an oriT site, does it matter how much space is flanking the sequence if there is a nearby promoter?

11 November 2017 0 2K Report

I have a promoter downstream of my gene of interest, and I am wondering if the conjugation proteins would interfere with the transcription of that gene.

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