Random initiation of replication of plasmids P1 and F (oriS) when integrated into the Escherichia coli chromosome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1025-1032

  Eliasson, Åsa ^a   Bernander, Rolf ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RIFAMPIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029936261     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02543.x     Document Type: Article

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