Replication and maintenance of λ plasmids devoid of the Cro repressor autoregulatory loop in Escherichia coli

Plasmid

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-125

  Herman Antosiewicz, Anna ^a   Śrutkowska, Sylwia ^a   Taylor, Karol ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031682225     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1348     Document Type: Article

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