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As secuencias ''cos'' teñen unha lonxitude de ~200 [[par de bases|pares de bases]] e son esenciais para o empaquetamento. Conteñen un sitio ''cosN'' onde o encima [[terminase]] lle fai unha mosega ou corte ao ADN en cada extremo, a 12 [[par de bases|bp]]. Isto causa a linearización do cósmido, que ata entón era circular, que presentará dous extremos "cohesivos" ou "pegañentos" de 12 bp. É importante que o ADN estea linearizado para poder empaquetalo na cápsida do fago. O sitio ''cosB'' sostén a terminase mentres esta está facendo o corte e separando as cadeas do ADN. O sitio ''cosQ'' do seguinte cósmido (xa que a replicación polo método dos [[replicación por círculos rodantes|círculos rodantes]] a miúdo orixina [[concatámero]]s lineares) é sostido pola terminase despois de que o cósmido anterior foi empaquetado, para impedir a degradación polas [[ADNase]]s celulares.[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=eurekah.figgrp.43844 Imaxe]
 
==Características e aplicacións==
Cosmids are predominantly plasmids with a bacterial oriV, an antibiotic selection marker and a cloning site, but they carry one, or more recently two cos sites derived from bacteriophage lambda. Depending on the particular aim of the experiment broad host range cosmids, shuttle cosmids or 'mammalian' cosmids (linked to SV40 oriV and mammalian selection markers) are available. The loading capacity of cosmids varies depending on the size of the vector itself but usually lies around 40–45 kb. The cloning procedure involves the generation of two vector arms which are then joined to the foreign DNA. Selection against wildtype cosmid DNA is simply done via size exclusion. Cosmids, however, always form colonies and not plaques. Also the clone density is much lower with around 105 - 106 [[CFU]] per µg of ligated DNA.
 
After the construction of recombinant lambda or cosmid libraries the total DNA is transferred into an appropriate E.coli host via a technique called in vitro packaging. The necessary packaging extracts are derived from E.coli cI857 lysogens (red- gam- Sam and Dam (head assembly) and Eam (tail assembly) respectively). These extracts will recognize and package the recombinant molecules in vitro, generating either mature phage particles (lambda-based vectors) or recombinant plasmids contained in phage shells (cosmids). These differences are reflected in the different infection frequencies seen in favour of lambda-replacement vectors. This compensates for their slightly lower loading capacity. Phage library are also stored and screened easier than cosmid (colonies!) libraries.
 
Target DNA: the genomic DNA to be cloned has to be cut into the appropriate size range of restriction fragments. This is usually done by partial restriction followed by either size fractionation or dephosphorylation (using calf-intestine phosphatase) to avoid chromosome scrambling, i.e. the ligation of physically unlinked fragments.
 
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