Allele-specific suppression of ColE1 high-copy-number mutants by a rpoB mutation of Escherichia coli

Plasmid

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-62

  Yang, Yun Liang ^a   Polisky, Barry ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032929660     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1378     Document Type: Article

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