Model Minicircles (MC) -Circular DNA Molecules

Minicircles (MC) are circular DNA molecules that are generated by an intramolecular (cis-) recombination from a parental plasmid (PP). The difference between MC and standard plasmid vectors for gene therapy or nucleic acid vaccination is that the MC contains neither the bacterial origin of replication (needed only in bacteria for the amplification of plasmids in cell division) nor the antibiotic resistance markers or other selection systems.