Plasmid stability: Comments on the dimer catasotrophe hypothesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-253

  Boe, L ^a   Tolker Nielsen, T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031036308     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2151579.x     Document Type: Article

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