Blasticidin, also known as Streptomyces griseochromogenes, is a common selection agent effective against both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells being used in genetic engineering applications. As an antibiotic, it inhibits cell propagation at the gene translation level. When a gene being studied is linked to a gene coding for resistance to Blasticidin, only cells engineered to carry the gene of interest will survive upon exposure to the selection agent.

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