Relationship between Escherichia coli growth and deletions of CTG·CAG triplet repeats in plasmids

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-96

  Bowater, Richard P ^a   Rosche, William A ^a,b   Jaworski, Adam ^a,c,d   Sinden, Richard R ^a   Wells, Robert D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Deletions; DNA structure; E. coli growth; Plasmid instability; Triplet repeats

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030598342     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0625     Document Type: Article

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