QUOTE (HomeBrew @ Oct 28 2009, 05:43 AM)

I too have heard of acridine orange being used for this purpose. I've also heard you can use electroporation to cure plasmids -- see, for example,
here, as well as other chemicals (novobiocin, SDS), or by growth and passage at high temperature. There are also apparently commercial kits for this purpose -- see
here, for example...
Thank you all for suggestions ^^!
@dreamchaser_jc: yes, it's possible, maybe some copies were deleted but the others are still remaining. I just did 2 rounds of treating with EtBr and the Kanamycin resistance of this strain reduced, but the confirmation by plasmid extraction revealed the presence of many plasmids.
@fishdoc: actually, I read a paper comparing the effects of acridine orange and EtBr on plasmid curing and they conclude EtBr is much better, so I chose this one for my experiment. This is the newly isolated strain in my lab, so there is no information about the native plasmids, but I guess they confer the antibiotic resistance. Moreover, when I use a vector from a related strain (same family), it's risky that the vector is incompatible with the native ones (I failed many times with electroporation).
@Homebrew: the paper you introduced about eletroporation for plasmid curing is very interesting. The idea is quite simple but efficient, I guess. The poration on cell membrane is good for plasmid entering the cell, but I haven't realized that it's also good for plasmid escaping. I'm going to try this method, plus ErBr treatment with more rounds, maybe this could help.
Thank you guys again !!!!