Escherichia coli strains in which chromosome replication is controlled by a P1 or F replicon integrated into oriC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1013-1023

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

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKERS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029950172     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02542.x     Document Type: Article

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