Use of continuous culture for the selection of plasmids with improved segregational stability

Plasmid

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 71-77

  Seegers, Jos F M L ^a,b   Franke, Cristian M ^a   Kiewiet, Rense ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Bron, Sierd ^a  

^a University of Groningen Center of Biological Sciences Haren   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CLONING VECTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEGREGATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0028965136     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1995.1009     Document Type: Article

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