Eclipse period during replication of plasmid R1: Contributions from structural events and from the copy-number control system

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 291-301

  Olsson, Jan A ^a   Berg, Otto G ^b   Dasgupta, Santanu ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE;

CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; R FACTORS; REPLICON; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0141707634     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03683.x     Document Type: Article

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