Differential amplification efficiency of pMB1 and p15A (ColE1-type) replicons in Escherichia coli stringent and relaxed strains starved for particular amino acids

Microbiological Research

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 251-255

  Wróbel, Borys ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amino acid starvation; ColE1; Plasmid DNA amplification; Regulation of plasmid replication; Stringent and relaxed control

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0345007992     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-5013(97)80036-5     Document Type: Article

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