Replication of minichromosomes in a host in which chromosome replication is random

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1215-1220

  Eliasson, Åsa ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0030999924     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2981663.x     Document Type: Article

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