Plasmid maintenance in Escherichia coli recombinant cultures is dramatically, steadily, and specifically influenced by features of the encoded proteins

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 625-632

  Corchero, José L ^a   Villaverde, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

E. coli; Partitioning; Plasmid; Recombinant proteins; Selective pressures; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CELL CULTURE; CLONING; GENES; PROTEINS; TOXICITY;

PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT GENES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

COLIFORM BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPLICON;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; APHTHOVIRUS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032551301     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19980620)58:6<625::AID-BIT8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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